Tom Wopat

Birthplace: Lodi, Wisconsin
Birthday: September 9, 1951

This handsome, brawny, blue-eyed actor went from being a television star to a country musician before embarking on his latest career as a respected Broadway actor. Not bad for a guy best known for playing Luke Duke on the mindless TV classic, “The Dukes of Hazzard” (CBS, 1979-1985). One of television’s bona fide guilty pleasures, “The Dukes of Hazzard” may have been silly entertainment, but it nevertheless shot the then-unknown Wopat to major stardom, paving the way for his eventual success and, ultimately, artistic legitimization on…more

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Credits

Actor

Meteorites!
Tom Johnson
The Hive
The Dukes of Hazzard
Luke Duke
Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion
Luke Duke
Christmas Comes to Willow Creek
Pete

Music

Cincinnati Pops Holiday: Erich Kunzel's Halloween Spooktacular
Song Performer ("Ghost Riders in the Sky" "Old Devil Moon" "Old Black Magic")
On Stage
Song Performer ("Too Many Honky Tonks" "As I Live and Breathe" "Only When" "Lear
Cincinnati Pops Holiday: Fourth of July From the Heartland
Song Performer ("The House I Live In")
Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion
Song Performer ("Carryin' On")
American Bandstand's 33 1/3 Celebration
Music ("Blue Suede Shoes")

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Career Milestones

2008
Featured in "Bonneville" with Joan Allen, Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange
2008
Played the father in the Broadway musical "A Catered Affair"; earned a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical
2005
Appeared in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross" as the browbeaten customer, James Lingk
2002
Made NYC cabaret appearance at Arci's Place
2001
Briefly joined the cast of the ABC daytime serial "All My Children"