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Marty Papazian

American actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6777518 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marty Papazian is an American television and film actor. He played CTU Interrogator Rick Burke in the television series 24 (2006–2007). Papazian made his directorial debut with the 2012 film Least Among Saints, in which he stars opposite Laura San Giacomo and Charles S. Dutton.

Papazian voiced the main character in 2006 game Black.

Editorial summary

“Marty Papazian” enters the record as american actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marty, Papazian and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-04-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marty, Papazian and American.
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Why this record matters

“Marty Papazian” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Marty, Papazian and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6777518. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2007 and 2012.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marty Papazian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.