David Ackroyd

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David Ackroyd (born May 30, 1940) is an American actor, who first came to prominence in soap operas such as The Secret Storm and Another World.

Early life[]

On May 30, 1940, Ackroyd was born in East Orange, New Jersey; he moved to Wayne, New Jersey when he was 12 years old.^[1][2]

Career[]

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David Ackroyd extended his all-stage career into film and television in the early 1970s, beginning with daytime leading man outings in The Secret Storm and Another World. He progressed to work as Gary Ewing in Dallas until Ted Shackelford successfully took over the role when the character moved to the spin-off drama Knots Landing. Ackroyd later appeared on Knots Landing as a guest star, playing a different character.

In the late 1970s, he appeared in the miniseries The Dark Secret of Harvest Home as Nick Constantine; The Word and the TV movies and Exo-Man. He costarred in the short-lived series AfterMASH and A Peaceable Kingdom. He had supporting roles in The Mountain Men, Dark Angel and Xena: Warrior Princess. He voiced "John Cavanaugh/Prince Corran of Dar-Shan" in the animated series Wildfire as well as several characters in The New Yogi Bear Show, The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and The New Adventures of Captain Planet.

On Broadway, Ackroyd appeared in Unlikely Heroes, a 1971 production of three plays based on the stories of Philip Roth; and Children of a Lesser God, in which he replaced John Rubinstein as the lead character James Leeds in 1981. Since the late 1990s and into the 2000s, Ackroyd has narrated documentaries on TV, including History's Mysteries and UFO Files: "Alien Engineering".^{[citation needed]}

Ackroyd moved to Montana in 1996. In 2003, he co-founded the Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish, a professional acting company, where he is the artistic development director. The project has featured appearances by Olympia Dukakis, John Lithgow and Kelli O'Hara.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography[]

Actor[]

• The Secret Storm (1971–1974)
• Another World (1974–1977) as Dr. Dave Gilchrist
• Kojak (1975)
• Exo-Man (1977) as Dr. Nicholas Conrad / Exo-Man
• Lou Grant (1978)
• The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
• The Word (1978)
• Dallas (1978)
• (1978)
• The Paper Chase, Season 1, Episode 5: "Voices of Silence" (1978)^[3]
• Women in White (1979)
• (1979)
• Mind Over Murder (1979)
• (1980)
• The Mountain Men (1980)
• (1981)
• (1982)
• Knots Landing (1982)
• Trapper John, M.D. (1982)
• McClain's Law (1982)
• The Facts of Life (1982)
• Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983)
• Deadly Lessons (1983)
• Dynasty (1983)
• Whiz Kids (1983)
• (1983)
• AfterMASH (1983)
• (1984)
• Hunter (1984)
• Cover Up (1984)
• Riptide (1984)
• Hardcastle and McCormick (1985)
• (1985)
• St. Elsewhere (1985)
• The Nativity (1986)
• , Season 2, Episode 13: "Trial by error" (1986)
• The Children of Times Square (1986)
• (1986)
• The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1986)
• Wildfire (1986)
• The A-Team (1986)
• A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
• Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder (1987)
• (1987)
• Cagney & Lacey (1985–1987)
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
• Hotel (1988)
• Windmills of the Gods (1988)
• MacGyver (1985–1988)
• Memories of Me (1988)
• Highway to Heaven (1988)
• The New Yogi Bear Show (1988)
• Studio 5-B (1989)
• A Peaceable Kingdom (1989)
• (1990)
• I Come in Peace (1990)
• (1991)
• Hell Hath No Fury (1991)
• Stop at Nothing (1991)
• (1992)
• The Fear Inside (1992)
• The Round Table (1992)
• (1993)
• Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
• The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993)
• Murder, She Wrote (1986–1994)
• Against the Wall (1994)
• Fortune Hunter (1994)
• Walker, Texas Ranger (1994)
• The Cosby Mysteries (1995)
• Xena: Warrior Princess (1996)
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996)
• No Strings Attached (1997)
• (1997)
• (2000)

Self[]

• (1998)
• (1998)
• (1998)
• (1999)
• (1999)
• (2000)
• (2000)
• (2000)
• (2000)
• (2000)
• (2001)
• (2005)
• (2006)
• (2006)
• The Universe (2007)

Archive footage[]

• Intimate Portrait (2002)

References[]

External links[]

• David Ackroyd at IMDb