Television
Besides his more high-profile starring roles in Lois & Clark and Mutant X, Shea's diverse television work includes guest-appearances on TV series Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent as well as being a recurring character on Gossip Girl.
Among other television films he was featured in Family Reunion (with Bette Davis), starred in Small Sacrifices (opposite Farrah Fawcett) which won a Peabody Award, in Kennedy (with Martin Sheen, in which he portrayed Robert F. Kennedy);Kennedy won the BAFTA Award. Other film work includes A Will of Their Own with Lea Thompson, Hitler's S.S. (opposite Bill Nighy) shot in England and Germany, Do You Know the Muffin Man? with Pam Dawber, the BBC comedy Coast to Coast (with Lenny Henry and Pete Postlethwaite, and the film adaptation of A.R Gurney's playThe Dining Room for Great Performances. Shea received a Prime Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role in the mini-series Baby M opposite JoBeth Williams.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)