Sam Fisher

Sam Fisher (born 1957) is the main character in the Splinter Cell series of games and novels created by author Tom Clancy. Throughout the series Fisher is voiced by actor Michael Ironside.

Introduction

Sam Fisher is a veteran of the CIA Directorate of Operations and of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 3. He is 5'10" tall, weighs 170 pounds (77 kg), usually has a rough-shave, and has black hair and green eyes. He is recruited by Third Echelon, a secretive division of the National Security Agency. As of June, 2007 ('), Fisher is fifty years of age, but extremely agile and expert in the art of stealth. Fisher was the first person to be recruited as a field operative, or "Splinter Cell," for Third Echelon. He works alone in the field -- in espionage parlance, he is a singleton.

Related Topics:
CIA - U.S. Navy SEAL Team 3 - Black - Hair - Green - Eye - Third Echelon - National Security Agency - 2007 - Singleton

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While Fisher was working on an American Air Force base in Germany during the 1980s, he met and later married Regan Burns. She died from ovarian cancer only a few years after they married. Sarah Burns, their only child who was only four years old when her mother died, is currently attending college in Illinois. Fisher resides in a townhouse in Towson, Maryland when not on the job.

Related Topics:
Base - Germany - 1980s - Ovarian cancer - Child - Illinois - Towson, Maryland

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His 'handler' or 'controller' is Colonel Irving Lambert, USA, Ret. (voiced in the second game by actor Dennis Haysbert). He coordinates intelligence and objective information with Fisher. He is assisted throughout his missions by NSA employees Anna Grimsdóttír, Vernon Wilkes Jr (now deceased) and later Frances Coen, who was Wilkes' temporary replacement and was replaced by former Marine William Redding. One of his aides, D. P. Brunton, became the head of SHADOWNET Operations, an "even blacker" operation than Third Echelon. Throughout the course of the first game Fisher travels widely, his missions taking him to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Myanmar, and Russia. The second game takes place largely in Indonesia and environs, though he also travels to France, Israel, and Los Angeles in the United States. Locations in the third game include Korea, Japan, Peru, Panama, and New York City.

Related Topics:
Colonel - Irving Lambert - Dennis Haysbert - Anna Grimsdóttír - Vernon Wilkes Jr - Frances Coen - Marine - William Redding - D. P. Brunton - Georgia - Azerbaijan - Myanmar - Russia - Indonesia - France - Israel - Los Angeles - Korea - Japan - Peru - Panama - New York City

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