David Ackroyd (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Ackroyd (born May 30, 1940, Orange, New Jersey) is an American actor, who first came to prominence in soap operas such as The Secret Storm and Another World.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 prime time work as Gary Ewing in Dallas until Ted Shackelford successfully took over the role when the character moved front and center with the spin-off drama Knots Landing. Coincidentally, Shackelford's last recurring role prior to Dallas was on "Another World." David's prime on-camera work occurred in the late 1970s with a series of strong co-star roles in the mini-series The Dark Secret of Harvest Home as the doomed Ned Constantine; The Word and the TV-movies And I Alone Survived and Women in White.