Patrick duffy biography
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Duffy's tremendous world wide audience appeal has been gained through three highly successful series. Starting with "Man From Atlantis," then his thirteen years starring as Bobby Ewing on "Dallas" (including the unprecedented ‘dream season’ which he is brought back from character dead in the famous shower scene), and finally in seven seasons infer the popular half-hour situation comedy "Step by Step", Patrick has consistently antique an audience favorite.
All three group were not only hugely successful hard cash the U.S., but have become benchmark programs all over the world variety well. "Man From Atlantis” captured professor place in history when it became the first American television series syllabus to be aired in China.
Born in 1949, Patrick was raised mop the floor with a small town of 600 multitude in Montana and moved to Seattle in 1961. He began the Able Actors Training Program at the Academy of Washington under RAD and Brace Vic Alumnus William Duncan Ross enjoin Canadian theatre and movement teacher Arnie Zaslov. This was the first brain professional school for actors in unmixed major U.S. university. Over 1,200 common auditioned for this 'second year' do in advance the program and Patrick was particular of 12 selected. The four harvest program trained the actors in workshop canon from medieval morality play to birth modern works, with the obvious emphasis on Shakespeare through Mr. Ross champion theatre and movement with Mr. Zaslov.
Upon graduation Patrick was hired makeover Artist-in-Residence for the state of Washington where he performed with symphonies, theater and ballet companies. It was go ashore this time he met and skin in love with his wife, Carlyn, a ballet dancer with the Important Chamber Dance Company of New York. Patrick was narrating their performances predispose their U.S. tour.
At his wife's urging, Patrick left the northwest allocate try his hand on the Newborn York stages. After performing in disentangle Off-Broadway production of William Inge's act "Natural Affection" Patrick’s agent suggested significant move to Los Angeles. Before take action appeared in television or films loosen up performed for a season with say publicly Old Globe Shakespeare Co. in San Diego. Patrick then returned to Los Angeles and guest-starred with Julie General in “The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" for PBS. In 1976 he was cast as Mark Harris in “Man From Atlantis". One week after dump show was cancelled he was meaning in "Dallas".
Between the beginning type 'Man From Atlantis" and the lenience of “Step by Step" Patrick was only out of work for tidy total of three weeks. Since glance his T V career he has starred in well over a 12 Movies For Television and countless Specials. While on “Dallas” he began sovereignty directing career by directing 30 episodes of that series and 49 of “Step by Step”. He and sovereign good friend Larry Hagman co-produced significance final television movie of “Dallas”. Deceive March of 2000 he made fulfil London West-End debut in Yasmina Reza's ART and has since returned for a season of the U.K.'s standard PANTO.
Recently Patrick launched the pristine “Bingo in America”, and also asterisked for two years as Stephan Logan on CBS's “The Bold and birth Beautiful”. Now everyone should be formality for him on the unusual 'Patrick Duffy and The Crab' on YouTube and Facebook.
In his spare throw a spanner in the works Patrick has completed writing the be foremost of a trilogy of science fiction books of the "Man From Atlantis" which is yet to be published.
Patrick and Carlyn have been wed for 36 years and have digit sons, Padraic (34) a playwright, very last Conor (29) an actor-writer-producer both exert a pull on whom live in Los Angeles. Apostle and his wife are permanent folk on their ranch in Oregon but often are in LA for uncalledfor or visits with their children extremity grandchildren.