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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. David Dukes (1945 - ) Actor Born: June 6, 1945, San Francisco, CA Education: College of Marin, Kentfield, CA Classically trained American repertory actor who has gone on to a busy career as a leading man in Broadway shows, TV, and some films since the 1970s, often playing diplomats, surgeons, and other high-powered professionals and bluebloods. The handsome, dark-haired actor had appeared in 37 professional productions before making his Broadway debut at age 25 in Moliere's School for Wives. Dukes' subsequent Broadway work includes playing Salieri in Amadeus, succeeding John Lithgow as the diplomat protagonist of M. Butterfly, and Horst in the WWII drama Bent with Richard Gere. Dukes made his TV debut playing the son of a wealthy Irish-American patriarch on Beacon Hill (CBS, 1975), a lavish soap set in the 1920s. Dukes' subsequent TV credits of note include the hit miniseries THE WINDS OF WAR and its followup WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (ABC, 1983, 1988), as diplomat Leslie Sloat; JOSEPHINE BAKER STORY (HBO, 1991), as orchestra leader Jo Bouillon, the husband of the celebrated music hall performer; and Y LA BANDA SIGUIO TOCANDO (HBO, 1992), as a medical researcher. His most notorious TV guest shot came on a special hour-long episode of All in the Family (1977), wherein he plays a would-be rapist who detains Edith (Jean Stapleton) at gunpoint in her living room while friends and family await her at her 50th birthday party. Dukes had a rare lead role in THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980), as a psycho killer pursued by detective Frank Sinatra. He played a stiff college professor in CLUB DE HOMBRES (1986), a poorly received talkfest about a men's encounter group. Most of Dukes' subsequent feature credits in the 80s and early 90s were direct-to-video releases.
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