Acting credits
63
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
David Selby
Acting
Career Snapshot
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1.1
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Movies: 46Series: 18Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 56930
IMDb ID: nm0782978
Known for: Acting
Born: February 5, 1941
Age: 85
Place of birth: Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1966 - 2025
Years active: 60
Average TMDB rating: 6.31
Wikidata: Q1176588
Other jobs
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Lynn Selby (born February 5, 1941) 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 (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).
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with David Selby.
Such A Pretty Girl
Thanks
2025 Movie
The Great Nick D
as Jim Hatton
2024 Movie
3.3
Todd Tarantula
as Lucifer Grey
2023 Movie
9.4
Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story
as Self
2021 Movie
4.6
Loon Lake
2019 Movie
9.1
Master of Dark Shadows
as Self
2019 Movie
5.5
Back Fork
as Bill
2019 Movie
6.1
Newness
as Artie Hallock
2017 Movie
6.1
Equals
as Leonard
2015 Movie
2.0
Mic Whore
as Satan
2014 Movie
8.2
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
as Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
2013 Movie
5.1
Are You Here
as Karl Stevens
2013 Movie
7.9
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
as Commissioner Gordon (voice)
2013 Movie
7.7
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
as James Gordon (voice)
2012 Movie
6.1
Dark Shadows
as Guest
2012 Movie
5.0
Deck the Halls
as Luke Reilly
2011 Movie
7.4
The Social Network
as Gage
2010 Movie
6.0
Inhale
as Dr. White
2010 Movie
9.4
Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood
as The Ghost of Quentin Collins (archive footage)
2009 Movie
6.2
Unknown
as Police Captain Parker
2006 Movie
5.4
End Game
as Shakey Fuller
2006 Movie
4.4
The Black Hole
as Ryker
2006 Movie
4.9
Larva
as Fletcher Odermatt
2005 Movie
5.7
Surviving Christmas
as Horace Vanglider
2004 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with David Selby.
7.5
Legion
as Brubaker • 3 eps
2017 Series
7.3
NCIS: New Orleans
as Red • 1 eps
2014 Series
7.9
Rizzoli & Isles
as Senator Malcolm Humphrey • 1 eps
2010 Series
6.6
Raising the Bar
as Richard Patrick Woolsey III • 1 eps
2008 Series
6.5
Tell Me You Love Me
as Arthur Foster • 10 eps
2007 Series
8.1
Mad Men
as Horace Cook, Sr. • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.8
Cold Case
as Dom Barron (2007) • 1 eps
2003 Series
6.1
Soldier of Fortune, Inc.
as Xavier Trout • 37 eps
1997 Series
6.5
Ally McBeal
as Mr. Rohr • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.2
Touched by an Angel
as Abraham Lincoln • 1 eps
1994 Series
Lady Boss
as Martin Swanson • 2 eps
1992 Series
5.5
Falcon Crest
as Richard Channing • 209 eps
1981 Series
6.1
Flamingo Road
15 eps
1981 Series
7.3
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
as Roger Castle • 6 eps
1977 Series
6.2
Police Woman
as Nate Fesler • 1 eps
1974 Series
7.1
Kojak
as Sgt. Jimmy O'Connor • 1 eps
1973 Series
7.2
The Waltons
1 eps
1972 Series
7.3
Dark Shadows
as Quentin Collins • 771 eps
1966 Series