[4][5] Pine arrived in Hollywood in 1964, where he learned to ride horses because as a contract player with Universal Studios, he was frequently featured in westerns.

[6] During his career he starred on the soap opera Days of Our Lives as Walter Coleman and had guest appearances in many American television shows, including Gunsmoke, Lost in Space, The Silent Force, The Wild Wild West, Barnaby Jones, Lou Grant, and Knight Rider.

[7] In the late 1980s, Pine guest-starred as Peter Morris, Zack's father, in an episode of Good Morning, Miss Bliss.

For California Dreams, he played a wealthy racist who sabotages his daughter's friendship with drummer Tony (William James Jones).

[8] For the CBS Schoolbreak Special Big Boys Don't Cry, he played a pedophile who molests his two nephews.