Career
Patrick is well known for his works in television shows, including the roles of Jason McGuire and Paul Stoddard in Dark Shadows and Somerset, Vaughn Leland in CBS's Dallas, and in such films as Joe. He also was a well-respected stage actor, winning the Theatre World Award for his starring role in "The Liar". He later portrayed Jean Paul Marat on Broadway in the stage production, Marat Sade.
In 1958, Patrick was cast as gangster Bugs Moran in an episode of CBS's Playhouse 90 anthology series. In 1959, he guest-starred in an episode of Bruce Gordon's NBC nearly forgotten docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors.
In 1961, Patrick appeared as Wes Darrin in the episode "The Fatal Step" of the NBC western series Laramie. Darrin and a younger partner, Tad Kimball, played by Gary Clarke, later a regular on The Virginian, engage in the sabotage and robbery of a stage in which series character Jess Harper, played by Robert Fuller, is riding shotgun. Kimball regrets taking part in the crime and tries belatedly to make amends. Meanwhile, Gil Fletcher, the marshal in Billings, Montana, played by Robert J. Wilke, tries to steal the $20,000 payroll taken from the stage and stashed in an abandoned mine by Darrin and Kimball.
Read more about this topic: Dennis Patrick
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)