Biografia

In 2000 he participated in Project 51, a non-profit organization organized to not only celebrate the impact Squadra emergenza (1972) had on rescue and emergency services but to honor members of the EMS profession as well. As one of seven committee members guiding this organization, he finished a cross-country tour, traveling with the refurbished Squad from the television show to such cities as: Orlando, Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Island, Baltimore and the final stop, Washington, DC. On May 16, nearly 30 years after "Emergency!" debuted, the Smithsonian Institute accepted the show's memorabilia into its Natural History Museum.

Serves as Honorary Chairman and Spokesperson for the non-profit County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association, and received an award for his efforts from the International Association of Fire Chiefs' EMS section.

His old friend and Squadra emergenza (1972) co-star, Kevin Tighe, was Best Man at his 2002 wedding to Kristen Connors.

He has played the character of Los Angeles Paramedic John Gage on four different series: Squadra emergenza (1972), Emergency +4 (1973), Adam-12 (1968), and Sierra (1974).

In 1997 he made a guest appearance on Un detective in corsia (1993) starring Dick Van Dyke, which reunited him with former Squadra emergenza (1972) co-star Robert Fuller.

People tell me this all the time...they come up to me and say, 'You're my hero,' I say no. I'm just the face. You're the body. You do the work. You're on the front line. Believe me, when I tell you from the bottom of my heart -- if you're a firefighter...an EMT...a paramedic -- you're my hero.

[When he arrived from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to become an actor]: This town let me be an actor. They've always said, 'Randy? Yeah, let's see what he can do.' Hollywood never said, 'Let's see what he can do,' they said, 'I know what he can do. I don't need to see him.'

[on playing someone else besides "Johnny Gage"]: I got recognized when I was on Squadra emergenza (1972), but nothing like I do now as "Clay". People seem to have a tendency to take the soaps much more seriously and reality identify on a personal basis much more than they do on prime-time. I'll be riding home on the subway and these ladies will come up to me and lecture me about how I should deal with "Ava".

My son's up to no good, and really no good, and I'm sorta [I guess] in a state of denial. I can't believe that my son's doing something like this, and I've been pretty much hiding him out and financing him, behind my wife's back, and turns out that was a big mistake on my part.

[on his Quando si ama (1983) character]: I don't want to make him a villain. First of all, I don't think anyone is all bad or all good; there are shades of human behavior and I think a character is more interesting and more credible if you show those shadings.