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EPISODE · Sep 30, 2025 · 36 MIN

Harvey Brownstone Interviews Highly Acclaimed Actor & Author, David Selby

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Highly Acclaimed Actor & Author, David SelbyAbout Harvey's guest:Today’s guest, David Selby, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actor and writer who’s been immortalized for his portrayal of several iconic TV characters. He played the charismatic and intense werewolf “Quentin Collins” on the classic daytime drama, “Dark Shadows”, and of course in the feature film, “Night of Dark Shadows”. He was also the ruthless businessman, “Richard Channing”, on “Falcon Crest”. And before that, he was the cunning and debonair “Michael Tyrone” on “Flamingo Road”. But beyond those signature roles, our guest has had a long and diverse career. He was in 4 Broadway productions, and co-starred in the national tour of “The Impossible Years”. On the big screen, he appeared in some great movies like “Up the Sandbox”, “Raise the Titanic”, “Rich and Famous”, “Dying Young”, “Intersection”, “The Girl in Blue”, “The Super Cops”, “Inhale”, “The Great Nick D” and many more. He’s also guest starred in dozens of classic TV shows including “The Waltons”, “Police Woman”, “Kojak”, “Touched By an Angel”, “Ally McBeal”, “Mad Men”, “Castle Rock”, “NCIS: New Orleans” and so many more. And he’s appeared in a number of great TV movies and miniseries including “Washington: Behind Closed Doors”, “Telethon”, “The Night Rider”, “Doctor Franken”, “The Black Hole” and “Deck the Halls”, to name just a few. And beyond all of that, our guest is a prolific author, playwright and poet. He’s written 10 books: “In and Out of the Shadows”, which is a career retrospective, “My Mother’s Autumn” and “Happenstance”, which are collections of poetry, “The Blue Door” and “Lincoln’s Better Angel”, which are novels that were incorporated into plays, “Promises of Love” and “A Casualty of Indifference”, which are his latest novels, “A Better Place”, which is all about his love for his home state of West Virginia and how his sense of place shapes his view of the world, “My Shadowed Past”, in which he reflects on his time on “Dark Shadows” and “Light and Shadows”, a collection of poems inspired by “Dark Shadows” and its fans. Our guest also has a distinguished record of community service. He and his wife Chip ran a summer children's musical theatre in New York for 10 years, and he’s directed numerous youth programs. He’s been inducted into the Cleveland Play House Hall of Fame, and he’s a recipient of the Millennium Recognition Award from The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. He’s an honorary member of the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center's Advisory Board, and he’s worked with the Governor's Honor Academy.  He’s received Distinguished Alumni Awards from BOTH of his alma maters - West Virginia University AND Southern Illinois University. In 1998, he was the first person to receive a Life Achievement Award from the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts, and in 2004, he received an honorary doctorate from West Virginia University.For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/To learn more about David Selby, go to:http://www.davidselby.com/https://www.facebook.com/davidselbydotcomhttps://www.instagram.com/davidselbyofficial/https://www.youtube.com/user/davidselbydotcom@harveybrownstone,#harveybrownstone,@harveybrownstoneinterviews,#harveybrownstoneinterviews,#DavidSelby,@DavidSelby,#davidselbydotcom,@davidselbydotcom,#davidselbyofficial,@davidselbyofficial,#JaneWyman,#DarkShadows,#FalconCrest,#FlamingoRoad,#GeorgeCukor,#JonathanFrid,#PattyDuke,#BarbraStreisand,#UptheSandbox,#Titanic,#TimBurton,#JohnnyDeppAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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