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David Selby

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But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.


— David Selby


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I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.


— David Selby


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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.


— David Selby


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I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.


— David Selby


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I never found it frustrating not speaking.


— David Selby


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I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.


— David Selby


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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.


— David Selby


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Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.


— David Selby


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One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.


— David Selby


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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.


— David Selby


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About David Selby






Did you know about David Selby?

Long after the series was cancelled and while co-starring opposite his old friend Jane Alexander in the short-lived series Tell Me You Love Me Selby was grief-stricken when his series' lead and friend Jane Wyman died in 2007. He eventually brought his Dark Shadows character to film with the second Dark Shadows movie Night of Dark Shadows released in 1971 after the TV series' cancellation. He played Abraham Lincoln in the Touched by an Angel episode "Beautiful Dreamer".

The naturally black-headed Selby is best known for playing the roles of Quentin Collins on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows (a role he played from 1968 to its ending in 1971 and again in the recent audio revival) and as the evil and compassionate estranged son of Angela Channing (played by Jane Wyman) Richard Channing on the primetime CBS soap opera Falcon Crest (a role he played from 1982 to 1990). He has worked in movies soap operas and television.

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