Biography
Since the 1970s, David Dukes has often played diplomats, surgeons and other high-powered professionals and bluebloods. He is particularly remembered for his portrayal of low-level career diplomat Leslie Slote, who finds inner courage, in the ABC miniseries based on the Herman Wouk novels "The Winds of War" (1983), and "War and Remembrance" (1988). Dukes also spent three seasons as the wealthy doctor husband of Swoosie Kurtz's Alex on the NBC …
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Career Milestones
| Acted in 37 professional productions in repertory companies across the country | ||
| Cast as a regular on the NBC sitcom "The Mommies" | ||
| Had a recurring role on The WB's teen drama "Dawson's Creek", playing a father struggling with the fact that his son (Kerr Smith) is gay | ||
| Played the husband of Swoosie Kurtz during the first three seasons of the NBC drama series "Sisters" | ||
1966 | Began theatrical career with San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater | |
1970 | Broadway debut at age 25 in Moliere's "The School for Wives" | |
1975 | Screen acting debut in James Ivory's "The Wild Party" | |
1975 | TV debut as one of the stars of "Beacon Hill", a lavish period soap set in the 1920s | |
1977 | Cast in a recurring role on Norman Lear's "All That Glitters", a syndicated serial set in an alternate universe where women rule | |
1977 | Memorable TV guest shot in "Edith's Fiftieth Birthday", a one hour episode of "All in the Family", as a would-be rapist who menaces Jean Stapleton | |
1979 | Received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his supporting role in "Bent", a Broadway play set during WWII in which he played a gay man | |
1980 | First feature lead, "The First Deadly Sin" | |
1981 | Portrayed Dr Victor Frankenstein in "Frankenstein", a NYC stage production | |
1982 | Acclaimed for his portrayal of Salieri in "Amadeus" on Broadway | |
1983 | Portrayed diplomat Leslie Slote on the immensely popular ABC miniseries "The Winds of War" | |
1988 | Reprised the role of diplomat Leslie Slote for the sequel miniseries "War and Remembrance" | |
1988 | Succeeded John Lithgow as the lead of "M. Butterfly" on Broadway | |
1996 | Played Arthur Miller in "Norma Jean & Marilyn" (HBO) | |
1997 | Was a regular on the short-lived Fox sitcom "Pauly" | |
1998 | Appeared on the London stage alongside George Wendt and Stacy Keach in "Art" | |
1998 | Cast as David Lewis, the lover of film director James Whale, in "Gods and Monsters" | |
1999 | Guest starred on a particularly moving episode of "The Practice" (ABC) as a man in a crisis of conscience over a murder | |
2002 | Final TV role in the ABC miniseries "Rose Red"; aired posthumously | |
Awards
1991 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor In a Miniseries or Special in The Josephine Baker Story |