[2][3] After graduating from Boston University Girardin moved to New York, where he performed on stage,[2][3] before settling in Hollywood, California.
and Judd, for the Defense, Girardin played Howie Dawson[4] in the soap opera television series General Hospital from 1968 to 1974.
[2][3] From the 1970s to the 1990s, Girardin appeared in films including Max Dugan Returns, The Lonely Guy, Star!, Scandal in a Small Town, Loverboy, The Executioner's Song, Midnight Offerings, Dad, Silence of the Heart, Badge of the Assassin, Love Affair, Gospa,[5] Number One with a Bullet,[6] and Hollywood Man,[7] which he wrote with William Smith, Tom Farese and Dominic Gombardella.
!, Benson, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days, From Here to Eternity, Gunsmoke, The White Shadow, T.J. Hooker, Hooperman, The Magical World of Disney, Murder, She Wrote, Baywatch, New York Undercover, Capital News, and L.A. Law,[2][3] and was a regular cast member of Flip Wilson's television sitcom Charlie & Co., playing the role of Charles Richmond's boss Walter Simpson.
[9][10] Girardin retired from acting in the late 1990s,[2] afterwards directing at the Academy Theater in Orleans, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.