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David Ackroyd | |
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| Born | (1940-05-30)May 30, 1940 (age 85) East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1965–present |
| Spouse | Ruth Liming (1963–present) |
| Children | Jessica Ackroyd Abigail Ackroyd |
| Parent(s) | Arthur Ackroyd Charlotte Henderson |
David Ackroyd (born May 30, 1940) is an American actor, who first came to prominence in soap operas such asThe Secret Storm andAnother World.
On May 30, 1940, Ackroyd was born inEast Orange, New Jersey; he moved toWayne, New Jersey, when he was 12 years old.[1][2]
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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 inThe Secret Storm andAnother World. He progressed to work asGary Ewing inDallas untilTed Shackelford successfully took over the role when the character moved to the spin-off dramaKnots Landing. Ackroyd later appeared onKnots Landing as a guest star, playing a different character.
In the late 1970s, he appeared in the miniseriesThe Dark Secret of Harvest Home as Nick Constantine;The Word and the TV moviesAnd I Alone Survived andExo-Man. He costarred in the short-lived seriesAfterMASH andA Peaceable Kingdom. He had supporting roles inThe Mountain Men,Dark Angel andXena: Warrior Princess. He voiced "John Cavanaugh/Prince Corran of Dar-Shan" in the animated seriesWildfire as well as several characters inThe New Yogi Bear Show,The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible,The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest andThe New Adventures of Captain Planet.
On Broadway, Ackroyd appeared inUnlikely Heroes, a 1971 production of three plays based on the stories ofPhilip Roth; andChildren of a Lesser God, in which he replacedJohn Rubinstein as the lead character James Leeds in 1981. Since the late 1990s and into the 2000s, Ackroyd has narrated documentaries on TV, includingHistory's Mysteries andUFO Files: "Alien Engineering".[citation needed]
Ackroyd moved to Montana in 1996. In 2003, he co-founded the Alpine Theatre Project inWhitefish, a professional acting company, where he is the artistic development director. The project has featured appearances byOlympia Dukakis,John Lithgow andKelli O'Hara.[citation needed]
In the years following his co-founding of the Alpine Theatre Project (ATP) in Whitefish, Montana, Ackroyd remained active with the company’s productions and education programs. In 2024, ATP announced a leadership transition to a “next generation” of leaders, naming Tracy McDowell as artistic director and Cynthia Benkelman as executive director, while retaining the founders to assist with the transition.[3][4]
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