David Selby
David Selby
David Lynn Selbyis an American film, television and stage actor. He is most well known for playing Quentin Collins in the daytime soap opera Dark Shadows, and Richard Channing in the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest. Selby has also had prominent roles in the television show Flamingo Road, and the feature film Raise the Titanic. Also a published writer, Selby has written several books including novels, memoirs, and collections of poetry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth5 February 1941
CityMorgantown, WV
CountryUnited States of America
And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.
All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
I never found it frustrating not speaking.
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.