Anecdotes

His father was a police officer/detective and his mother was a social worker.

It was while doing a test for the daytime soap opera "General Hospital" that ABC decided instead to cast him in "Ryan's Hope".

Received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. After touring for a year with the National Players, the oldest classical touring company in the nation, he was offered a scholarship to pursue his M.F.A. at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

After several years in regional repertory with the Folger Theatre, Arena Stage (D.C.), and the Actors Theater of Louisville (Kentucky), went home to New York in 1977 where one of his first roles was in the Public Theatre's production of "Miss Margarita's Way" starring Estelle Parsons.

Virile, curly-haired American leading man from the 1970s stage who earned initial notice as a daytime television hunk (Frank Ryan in Ryan's Hope (1975)), then moved to prime time in the 1980s with his own series (Le Juge et le pilote (1983) opposite Brian Keith).

Attended and graduated from Roselle Catholic High School in 1970.

Starred in the acclaimed Broadway revivals of "Born Yesterday" as Paul Verrall opposite Madeline Kahn and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner.