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David Selby (23)

Birth:	5th February, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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David Lynn Selby is an American character and stage actor. He has worked in movies, soap operas and television. The naturally black-headed Selby is best known for playing the roles of Quentin Collins on the ABC-TV serial, Dark Shadows, and as the evil and compassionate estranged son of Angela Channing, Richard Channing, on the primetime CBS soap opera Falcon Crest.

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• 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.

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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.

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• And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that’s how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

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

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

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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.

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• I never found it frustrating not speaking.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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• Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn’t know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!

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• That’s the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren’t viable commercially to be done.

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• The movie wasn’t really derived from Dark Shadows – they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

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• The movie, if I recall, didn’t have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn’t want it to be like the TV show.

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• The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

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• 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.

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• We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

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• We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

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• 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.

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