starring

PATRICK DUFFY

Born on March 17, 1949 in Boulder, a small town in MONTANA, and raised in SEATTLE since he was 12 years old. He had two ideas: becoming a professional athlete or simply an actor. At high school, he had to choose and chose Arts. He studied at the School Of Dramatic Arts of NEW YORK, where he stayed until he got the degree of resident actor at the SEATTLE University. From then on he played several supporting roles on local theatre montages, mainly at the Nortwest Pacific area, where he grew up, until he decided to move to CALIFORNIA: “I arrived at Hollywood very determined to succeed but I had to spend four years driving a truck and building floating houses before I made it.”

A one-season starring role on the show THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS was enough to launch out his career but he quit before to get typed. In 1972, he had met a ballet dancer called CARLYN ROSSER after broadcasting the ballet show she had been in. Two years later they got married in a Buddhist temple, since his wife had introduced him to this religion. Afterwards, they moved to N.Y. and then to HOLLYWOOD, where their two sons were born, PADRAIC and CONNOR.

The role of BOBBY EWING on DALLAS provided him prestige, money and fame, which he used to move on in his career. Firstly, he was able to direct a few episodes of the show; secondly, he recorded a duet single with French chanteuse MIREILLE MATHIEU. However, he was not completely satisfied with his career´s course, therefore he was the first DALLAS´s star who decided not to re-new his contract, thus obliging the writers to “kill” his character BOBBY. “I want to leave the show as long as we´re at the top”, he honestly stated.

Everything seemed to lead PATRICK´s future to the movies: at the CANNES Festival ´84, his first big-screen performance could be seen: “VAMPING”, the story of a Polish saxo player searching for success. For DUFFY the main thing is keeping his own success and being considered as a versatile actor, capable to bring life to any character. This did not stop him to resume his part on DALLAS, by request of his workmate and onscreen brother LARRY HAGMAN, in an attempt to regain the lost audience.

On September 26, 1986 BOBBY´s return became a fact through a plot twist of the writers. Because of it, or maybe despite of it, his face will always remain associated to the name of one of the most endearing TV heroes.

“I miss the 5-days-a-week work schedule and I´d like to go back to it. LARRY tells me that this doesn´t always happen: if you´re lucky and get something like this once in a lifetime, you´ve got to thank your guardian angel.”

CAREER:
Movies:

-He´s Such a Girl (2007)

-The Pirates Of Central Park (2001)

-Rusty: A Dog´s Tale (1997)
(voice)

-Vamping (1983)
(and production)

Television:

LINDA GRAY