Everything about David Selby totally explained
David Lynn Selby (born
February 5,
1941 in
Morgantown,
West Virginia) is an
American character and stage actor, primarily in
movies,
soap operas and
television. The naturally black-headed Selby is best known for playing the roles of
Quentin Collins on the
ABC-TV cult serial,
Dark Shadows (a role he played from
1968 to its ending in
1971), as
Jane Wyman's evil and compassionate TV son, Richard Channing, on the long-running,
primetime CBS soap opera Falcon Crest (a role he played from
1982 to
1990), and as
Jane Alexander's medical partner and husband, Dr. Arthur Foster, in the
HBO series,
Tell Me You Love Me.
Biography
The son of Clyde Ira Selby and Sarah E. McIntyre Selby, he attended
West Virginia University in his hometown, earning
Bachelor of Science and
Master's degrees in
theater, followed by a
Ph.D. from
Southern Illinois University. He would eventually bring his
Dark Shadows character to
film with the second
Dark Shadows movie,
Night of Dark Shadows, released in 1971 after the TV series' cancellation. A year before joining
Falcon Crest in 1982, he played the villainous Michael Tyronne on the final season of the
NBC primetime serial
Flamingo Road. In 1989, Selby was very devastated to hear about his co-star's
Jane Wyman's medical leave from the show, at the beginning of the ninth and final season on
Falcon Crest, that he alongside
Lorenzo Lamas and
Susan Sullivan (who played Selby's wife), visited the ailing star at the hospital. That same year, his screen-time had been expanded for most of the last season. Long after the series was cancelled, and while co-starring opposite his old friend
Jane Alexander in
Tell Me You Love Me, Selby was grief-stricken when his co-star, Jane Wyman, had died in
2007, and had delivered his condolences to Wyman's family, according to his website. Selby's movie credits include co-starring roles with
Barbra Streisand in
Up the Sandbox (1972) and with
Ron Leibman in
The Super Cops (1974),
White Squall,,
Raise the Titanic, and
Surviving Christmas (2004). He has recently reprised the role of Quentin Collins for a new series of Dark Shadows audio dramas from Big Finish Productions.
His writing includes the plays
Lincoln and James and
Final Assault as well as the poetry collections
My Mother's Autumn and
Happenstance.
Awards
West Virginia University in 1998 awarded Selby its first Life Achievement Award from the College of Creative Arts, and an honorary doctorate in 2004.
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