Dale Midkiff
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Dale Alan Midkiff is an American
actor
.
, the son of Joyce and Thomas Midkiff. He attended Edgewood High School near Baltimore
. His first acting experience came playing Jack in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk
for a local children's theater. His later roles were in The Intruder and Room Service. Dale graduated in 1977 and won a drama award from his high school. Midkiff then attended Salisbury University
in Maryland
, majoring in Communication Arts with a minor in English and Philosophy. Following graduation, he went to New York City
where he held various odd jobs, including performing quick change for the showgirls at the Rainbow Grill in Rockefeller Center
.
plays like Mark Medoff's "The Wager." His first movie role was in Roger Corman
's Streetwalkin playing a pimp named Duke. Dale's acting was called "grittily impressive" in what some consider a B-movie
classic. He has said in interviews that while his family never quite understood his interest in acting, they never discouraged him: "I love them for allowing a kid to believe in his dreams."
His first major break came when he landed the role of Jock Ewing
in Dallas: The Early Years
. That was followed by what many consider his biggest role to date, Elvis Presley
, in the four-hour mini-series, Elvis and Me
, and by Dream Street, a short-lived "blue collar" series set in New Jersey. Midkiff's roles have run the gamut from the wife beater in A Cry For Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
, to the "good old boy" cop who discovers his partner/best friend is a murderer in Vigilante Cop, to the heroic time-traveling Fugitive Retrieval cop in Time Trax
, to the amiable ladies' man and town protector in The Magnificent Seven. He is also well known for having played the lead role of "Louis Creed" in the 1989 film version of Stephen King's Pet Sematary
.
Married since 1997, Midkiff is a father of three.
... aka Vigilante Cop
SELF:
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
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Early life
Midkiff was born in Chance, MarylandChance, Maryland
Chance is a census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
, the son of Joyce and Thomas Midkiff. He attended Edgewood High School near Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
. His first acting experience came playing Jack in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by English historian Francis Palgrave to be an oral legend that arrived in England with the Vikings. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer. It is known under a number of versions...
for a local children's theater. His later roles were in The Intruder and Room Service. Dale graduated in 1977 and won a drama award from his high school. Midkiff then attended Salisbury University
Salisbury University
Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland.According to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 America's Best Colleges index, "In guidebooks and surveys by U.S...
in Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
, majoring in Communication Arts with a minor in English and Philosophy. Following graduation, he went to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
where he held various odd jobs, including performing quick change for the showgirls at the Rainbow Grill in Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st streets in New York City, United States. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National...
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Career
Midkiff acted in off-BroadwayOff-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
plays like Mark Medoff's "The Wager." His first movie role was in Roger Corman
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
's Streetwalkin playing a pimp named Duke. Dale's acting was called "grittily impressive" in what some consider a B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
classic. He has said in interviews that while his family never quite understood his interest in acting, they never discouraged him: "I love them for allowing a kid to believe in his dreams."
His first major break came when he landed the role of Jock Ewing
Jock Ewing
John Ross Ewing, Sr., better known as Jock Ewing, is a character in the popular American television series Dallas, played by Jim Davis and Dale Midkiff in Dallas: The Early Years...
in Dallas: The Early Years
Dallas: The Early Years
Dallas: The Early Years was a made for television movie that first aired on March 23, 1986 on CBS during the eighth season of the TV series Dallas...
. That was followed by what many consider his biggest role to date, Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
, in the four-hour mini-series, Elvis and Me
Elvis and Me
Elvis and Me is a 1985 biography written by Priscilla Presley . In the book, Priscilla talks about meeting Elvis, their marriage, and the factors that led up to the couple's divorce....
, and by Dream Street, a short-lived "blue collar" series set in New Jersey. Midkiff's roles have run the gamut from the wife beater in A Cry For Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story is a 1989 NBC TV-movie based on the 1984 case Thurman v. City of Torrington. The film stars Nancy McKeon as Tracey; Dale Midkiff as Buck; and Bruce Weitz as Tracey's lawyer, Burton Weinstein.- References :...
, to the "good old boy" cop who discovers his partner/best friend is a murderer in Vigilante Cop, to the heroic time-traveling Fugitive Retrieval cop in Time Trax
Time Trax
Time Trax was an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future...
, to the amiable ladies' man and town protector in The Magnificent Seven. He is also well known for having played the lead role of "Louis Creed" in the 1989 film version of Stephen King's Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by Stephen King. It was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and was later made into a film of the same name.-Plot:...
.
Married since 1997, Midkiff is a father of three.
Filmography
- Criminal MindsCriminal MindsCriminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
(1 episode, 2009) - CSI: MiamiCSI: MiamiCSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
....Doug McClain (1 Episode, 2007) - Love's Unfolding DreamLove's Unfolding DreamLove's Unfolding Dream is a Christian Drama and the sixth TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke and second to air in 2007. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel on December 15, 2007 and was produced for Hallmark by Larry Levinson Productions. It was directed by Harvey Frost...
(2007) (TV) .... Clark Davis - Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary (2007) .... Doug
- Love's Unending LegacyLove's Unending LegacyLove's Unending Legacy is a 2007 Christian Drama made for TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel on April 7, 2007. It was directed by Mark Griffiths and stars Erin Cottrell...
(2007) (TV) .... Clark Davis - Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a PlaneFlight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a PlaneFlight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane is a 2007 zombie film by director Scott Thomas.- Plot :On a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a renegade group of scientists has smuggled aboard a secret container holding a fellow scientist infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus...
(2007)...Dr. Lucas Thorp - Love's Abiding JoyLove's Abiding JoyLove's Abiding Joy is a 2006 Christian Drama made for TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr. and stars Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew...
(2006) (TV) .... Clark Davis - Boxboarders!Boxboarders!Boxboarders! is a 2007 independent comedy film written and directed by Rob Hedden and starring, among others, Marieh Delfino, Melora Hardin, Dale Midkiff, Michelle Pierce and The Lizardman....
(2006) .... Bruce Rockwell - Back to You and Me (2005) (TV) .... Gus Martin
- Love's Long JourneyLove's Long JourneyLove's Long Journey is a 2005 Christian Drama made for TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr...
(2005) (TV) .... Clark Davis - Deep Rescue (2005) .... Ben
- Without a TraceWithout a TraceWithout a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...
(TV) .... Eddie Ferguson (1 episode, 2005) - Love's Enduring PromiseLove's Enduring PromiseLove's Enduring Promise is a 2004 Christian Drama made for TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke.The film is the second in the "Love Comes Softly" series of television movies on Hallmark Channel that includes Love Comes Softly , Love's Long Journey , Love's Abiding Joy , Love's...
(2004) (TV)... Clark Davis - Torn ApartTorn ApartTorn Apart can refer to:*Torn Apart ; third album by the Australian Ska band Area-7*Torn Apart ; 1996 machinima film*Torn Apart: The Life of Ian Curtis, a 2006 biography of the Joy Division musician by Mick Middles and Lindsay Reade...
(2004) .... Jerry Bender - Debating Robert LeeDebating Robert LeeDebating Robert Lee is a 2004 independent film, directed by Dan Polier and written by Matthew Klein with Polier. It is centered on a group of dysfunctional teens—the debate team at a high school in idyllic Palos Verdes, California...
(2004) .... Robert Lee - Love Comes SoftlyLove Comes SoftlyLove Comes Softly is a 2003 Christian drama television movie set in the 19th century, based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel in 2003...
(2003) (TV)... Clark Davis - Maximum Velocity (2003) .... Dr.Timothy Briggs
- Nancy Drew (2002) (TV) .... Jimbo Mitchell
- Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002) (TV) .... Gary Wilson
- Route 666Route 666 (film)Route 666 is a 2001 action/horror film directed by William Wesley. It stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams, L.Q. Jones, Dale Midkiff, Alex McArthur, and Mercedes Colon.-Plot:...
(2001) .... PT, U.S. Marshal - CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
.... Prof. Robert Woodbury (1 episode, 2001) - The WardenThe WardenThe Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", published in 1855. It was his fourth novel.-Synopsis:...
(2001) (TV) .... Murphy - "Twice in a Lifetime-The Frat Pack" (2000) (TV) .... Reese (1 episode)
- "Mysterious Ways-- Spirit Junction" (2000) (TV) .... Jack Kestler (1 episode)
- The Magnificent Seven (1998) ( 22 episodes) TV Series... Buck Wilmington
- Alien Fury (2000) (TV) .... Bill Templer
- Another Woman's Husband (2000) (TV) .... Johnny Miller/Jake
- The Crow: SalvationThe Crow: SalvationThe Crow: Salvation is a 2000 film directed by Bharat Nalluri. The film is the third in a series based on The Crow comic book by James O'Barr...
(2000)... Vincent Erlich - Air Bud: World PupAir Bud: World Pup-Plot:Teenager Josh Framm's mother, Jackie, has just married her veterinarian boyfriend, Patrick Sullivan. Josh and his best friend, Tom Stewart, have just made their school's soccer team when their coach reveals that their team will become co-ed...
(2000) (V) .... Patrick - Falcon DownFalcon DownFalcon Down was an action film from 2000 directed by Philip J. Roth and starring Dale Midkiff, William Shatner, Judd Nelson, Jennifer Rubin and Cliff Robertson.-Story:DVD synopsis: The biggest U.S...
(2000) .... Captain Hank Thomas - "The Outer Limits- Blank Slate" .... Tom Cooper (1 episode, 1999)
- Conversations in Limbo (1998)
- Toothless (1997) (TV) .... Thomas Jameson
- Any Place But Home (1997) (TV) .... Carl Miller
- Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997) (TV) .... Det. Steve Carella
- Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996) (TV) .... Det. Steve Carella
- Visitors of the Night (1995) (TV) .... Sheriff Marcus Ashley
- A Child Is Missing (1995) (TV) .... Peter Barnes
- Time TraxTime TraxTime Trax was an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future...
(1993) ( 44 episodes) TV Series .... Darien Lambert - "Sweet Justice" - The Power of Darkness: Part 1 & Part 2 (1994) (TV) .... Alex Boudreau
- A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell StoryA Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell StoryA Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story is a 1994 biographical television film directed by Larry Peerce. The film is about the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel writer Margaret Mitchell, who landed to fame when she wrote Gone with the Wind....
(1994) (TV) .... Red - Love Potion No. 9 (1992) .... Gary Logan
- BlackmailBlackmailIn common usage, blackmail is a crime involving threats to reveal substantially true or false information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand is met. It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats...
(1991) (TV) .... Scott Mayfield - Plymouth (1991) (TV) .... Gil Eaton
- Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance (1991) (TV) .... Farrell Tucker
... aka Vigilante Cop
- Sins of the Mother (1991) (TV) .... Kevin Coe
- The Marla Hanson Story - Face Value (1991) (TV) .... Eric Warner
- A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman StoryA Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman StoryA Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story is a 1989 NBC TV-movie based on the 1984 case Thurman v. City of Torrington. The film stars Nancy McKeon as Tracey; Dale Midkiff as Buck; and Bruce Weitz as Tracey's lawyer, Burton Weinstein.- References :...
(1989) (TV) .... Buck Thurman - Pet SemetaryPet Sematary (film)Pet Sematary is a 1989 horror film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. Directed by Mary Lambert and written by King, the film features Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall...
(1989) .... Louis Creed - Dream Street (1989) TV Series .... Denis DeBeau
- Casual Sex?Casual Sex?Casual Sex? is a 1988 comedy film about two female friends who go to a holiday resort in search of the perfect man. It was directed by Geneviève Robert, and stars Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Andrew Dice Clay, and Jerry Levine....
(1988) .... Attractive Stranger - Elvis and MeElvis and MeElvis and Me is a 1985 biography written by Priscilla Presley . In the book, Priscilla talks about meeting Elvis, their marriage, and the factors that led up to the couple's divorce....
(1988) (TV) .... Elvis Presley - Dallas: The Early YearsDallas: The Early YearsDallas: The Early Years was a made for television movie that first aired on March 23, 1986 on CBS during the eighth season of the TV series Dallas...
(1986) (TV) .... John Ross 'Jock' Ewing - Nightmare WeekendNightmare WeekendNightmare Weekend is a 1986 horror film directed by Henry Sala and distributed by Troma Entertainment. It features the first film role of NYPD Blue actress Andrea Thompson.-Plot:A brilliant professor invents a computer machine meant to better society...
(1986) .... Ken - Streetwalkin' (1985) .... Duke
SELF:
- Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary': Filming the Horror (2006) (V) .... Himself
- Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary': Stephen King Territory (2006) (V) .... Himself
- Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary': The Characters (2006) (V) .... Himself