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Mad Men |
David Selby will guest star in the AMC series Mad Men. He plays Horace Cook, Sr. in an episode titled "The Greatest Generation." The episode airdate is not available at this time. The third season of Mad Men will premiere on Sunday, August 16, 2009, at 10:00 pm Eastern.
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Inhale |
David Selby will appear in the upcoming independent film Inhale (filmed under the working title Run for Her Life) as Dr. White. The film stars Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, and Jordi Molla. The director is Baltasar Kormakur.
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The Haunting of Collinwood | ||||||||
The entire Dark Shadows series is also available on DVD from MPI Home Video.
Dark Shadows DVD Collection 11 is the first set to feature David Selby as the ghost of Quentin Collins. He first appears on the fourth disc of this set. The ghost of Quentin Collins continues to menace the residents of Collinwood in Dark Shadows DVD Collection 12. Barnabas Collins travels back to 1897 and encounters Quentin Collins in Dark Shadows DVD Collection 13. This collection features David's first dialogue on the series. (Fans of Dark Shadows may recall that Quentin Collins appears as a silent ghost in quite a few episodes before audiences finally hear him speak his first word -- "Hello!") Dark Shadows DVD Collection 17 concludes the 1897 flashback.
David Selby remained a member of the Dark Shadows cast through the end of the series. The final collection featuring episodes with David Selby is Dark Shadows DVD Collection 26. | ||||||||
Falcon Crest Available on DVD in Europe | ||||||||
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Season One of Raising the Bar Coming to DVD | ||||||||
The first season of Raising the Bar was released on DVD on June 2, 2009.
David's episode is currently available for online viewing on the TNT site.
The series will return for a second season on Monday, June 8, at 10:00 pm ET. | ||||||||
New Dark Shadows Audio Recordings | ||||||||
Big Finish announces the release of the next two dramatic readings in the Dark Shadows series.
For these two new releases, the focus is on the characters of Quentin and Angelique, played by Lara Parker and David Selby. Released in November 2008, The Skin Walkers takes place in New York at the turn of the century, where Quentin is stalked by a mysterious cult, hell-bent on harnessing his werewolf powers.
Meanwhile, The Path of Fate, released in December 2008, explores Angelique and marks the Big Finish debut of Stephen Mark Rainey, an author familiar to Dark Shadows fans from his acclaimed official novel, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark.
Big Finish is also gearing up to record the final two dramatic readings, which will feature a Dark Shadows original series actor new to Big Finish, who will be announced soon.
Series two of the full-cast audio dramas is on track for release in August 2009 and will be Big Finish's most ambitious Dark Shadows project to date. It’s a four-part epic, continuing Big Finish's ongoing stories in grand fashion. Big Finish will be recording these new CDs once the last of the current run of Dramatic Readings are released. The first of the new stories is tentatively called The Banished Creatures and picks up directly from the exciting final scenes of The Rage Beneath.
The Skin Walkers and The Path of Fate are both available to order now.
To order these items, visit: http://www.bigfinish.com/Dark-Shadows-Dramatic-Readings
Be sure to check out the first series of Dark Shadows full-cast audio dramas:
http://www.bigfinish.com/Dark-Shadows-Season-1
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Lincoln's Better Angel | ||||||||
David Selby is best known as a television, stage and film actor, but he is also a writer. Raised and educated in West Virginia and Illinois, and residing in California, his writing touches the heart of the matter for many cultures, and always with a measure of humor and perceptive insight.
The Story Lincoln’s Better Angel was inspired by an event the author read about in the Washington Post. The story he creates reflects on the personal impact of war and historical perspective.
A walk with President Abraham Lincoln and Vietnam Veteran Charles Huggins through Washington D.C., on a hot Fourth of July night, becomes a walk through history. Layering time, grief, humor and fantasy, Selby presents a story that is both moving and engaging.
What the Reviewers Write “David Selby has presented a charming novel....Selby has Lincoln speaking in a mix of noble sentiments and very common wisdom—a perfect combination for the Great Emancipator. Lincoln is clearly a person we wish we knew better, and in Selby’s work we come to know him as never before.” —Michael P. Riccards, author, Ferocious Engine of Democracy, a two-volume history of the presidency
“Lincoln’s Better Angel gives us a history lesson, and Lincoln’s words and actions demonstrate how he changed our way of thinking and made it possible for all of us to be the best that we can be.” —Rafer Johnson, Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal Winner, author, and humanitarian
“From its opening paragraph, Lincoln’s Better Angel is touching, and at times astonishing. David Selby has created a living, breathing Lincoln, true to historical roots, yet alive and relevant in today’s world. Any student of American history will be dazzled by Selby’s interpretation of Lincoln and his plausible reactions to contemporary events. With every page, you tumble further into this amazing world, and meet a charming, wise and surprising ghost of Lincoln.” —Bob Rogers, BRC Imagination Arts, Executive Producer of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
“David L. Selby has brought the ghost of Lincoln back to Washington D.C. where he appears to a Vietnam veteran assigned to the Lincoln Memorial. They discuss the past and the present in a very imaginative and philosophical dialogue. A most entertaining read.” —Wayne C. Temple, historian and author of Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet and other works, and Chief Deputy Director, Illinois State Archive
To purchase Lincoln's Better Angel, please visit the Mayhaven Publishing web site, Amazon.com, or Barnes and Noble.
David was recently interviewed by West Virginia Public radio about Lincoln's Better Angel. Click here to access the transcript and the audio.
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In September 2008, David appeared on Raising the Bar, a new legal drama on TNT from Steven Bochco starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben, and Jane Kaczmarek. David portrayed Richard Patrick Woolsley III, the father of one series regular Teddy Sears, in an episode entitled "Richie Richer."
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The Heavens Are Hung in Black | ||
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David Selby played the role of Abraham Lincoln in The Heavens are Hung in Black, a new play by James Still commissioned to celebrate the grand reopening of Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC and the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Previews began February 3 with performances through March 8.
Celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday at Washington's National Cathedral |
David Selby joined Howard University Professor Edna Greene Medford and Washington National Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III for a Sunday Forum celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday on Sunday, February 22, at 10:10 am. The event was free and open to the public. It was be webcast live on the Cathedral's home page. The audio and video are archived on the Cathedral web site. This event is also available on DVD. Visit the Cathedral's DVD shop to purchase it. (Look for Sunday Forum: Lincoln Celebration.)
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