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The character Gil Grissom in the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the character Virgil Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds are named after the astronaut.

Gil Grissom on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV show is an entomologist, who is played by actor William Petersen.

* Gil Grissom, character on American TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, played by actor William Petersen

For television, the actor portrayed a character who temporarily replaces Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, in the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, during the 2006 – 2007 season.

On August 18, 2008, it was reported that Laurence Fishburne would join the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after William Petersen ( aka Gil Grissom ) left the series.

Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, finds a unique combination of medications on the leather gloves which Goodson had discarded at the murder location figuring that they could never be traced back to her.

The Season 9 premiere revealed Dourdan's character dying in the arms of his colleague and friend Gil Grissom.

William Louis Petersen ( born February 21, 1953 ) is an American actor and producer, best known for playing Dr. Gilbert " Gil " Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Richard Chance in the film To Live and Die in L. A., and as Will Graham in the film Manhunter.

* In the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode 1x11, Gil Grissom was seen to own a Big Mouth Billy Bass placed above his office door because its motion sensor was better than a watch dog.

" His repertoire also included impressions of celebrities and well-known figures, including Al Gore, Bob Barker, John Kerry, Dr. Phil, Bill O ' Reilly, Maury Povich, Chris Martin, Steve Jobs, Mel Gibson, Chris Hansen, Roy Horn, Ozzy Osbourne, John Ramsey, Freddie Prinze, Jr., J. K. Simmons ( as Mac McGuff, Juno's father ), William Petersen ( as Gil Grissom ), Jack Coleman ( as Noah Bennet ), Hugh Laurie ( as Gregory House ), Hugh Beaumont ( as Ward Cleaver ), Sarah Jessica Parker ( as Carrie Bradshaw ), Dr. Drew, Adam Sandler, Howie Mandel, Dick Cheney, Clint Eastwood, Gray Davis, Simon Cowell, JC Chasez, Bruce Jenner, Michael Richards, Chris Burke, Charlie Sheen ( as Charlie Harper ( Two and a Half Men )), David Schwimmer ( as Ross Geller ), Jeff Probst, Tim Gunn ( Project Runway ), Howard K. Stern, Tommy Lee, Bob Goen, Criss Angel, Jeff Foxworthy, Saddam Hussein, Matthew Good, Daniel Powter, Larry David, Barry Gibb, Eddie Vedder, and Brad Garrett.

** William Petersen – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Gil Grissom

* Lennie Briscoe was ranked # 9 on America's Top Sleuths between Sherlock Holmes at # 10 and Gil Grissom of CSI at # 8.

Dr. Gilbert " Gil " Grissom, ( Ph. D .) is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by William Petersen.

Zuiker originally named the character Gil Sheinbaum, but after he became part of the cast, William Petersen requested the name to be changed, Petersen and Zuiker decided to rename the character " Grissom ", after astronaut Gus Grissom, of whom Petersen was a great admirer.

Gil Grissom first appears in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on the pilot episode.

Gil Grissom has a more than passing similarity to Sherlock Holmes.

Of more than twenty-five-thousand fan fictions written about CSI on FanFiction. Net, more than half include Gil Grissom.

Gilbert " Gil " Grissom was born on August 17, 1956, as an only child to a middle-class family in Santa Monica, California.

* Gil Grissom at the Unofficial CSI Wiki

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