Kevin Dobson

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Kevin Patrick Dobson (born March 18, 1943 in New York City , New York - † September 6, 2020 in Stockton , California ) was an American actor and film director . He is best known for his roles as Bobby Crocker in the crime drama Kojak - Kojak and Mack MacKenzie in the soap opera Knots Landing .

Life

Dobson was born in 1943 in the Queens borough of New York, one of seven children to a caretaker and a housewife. He grew up in a Jackson Heights public housing estate . After finishing school, Dobson served seven years in the US Army as a military policeman . He then worked as a train driver, brakeman and ticket inspector on the Long Island Rail Road and later as a waiter and bartender. He also auditioned for smaller theater roles and appearances in commercials before turning to acting professionally - inspired by a speech by actor Tom Ewell . Dobson took acting lessons from Sandy Meisner . From the late 1960s he was seen in smaller roles. In 1971 he had a brief appearance in Alan J. Pakula's thriller Klute .

After further small roles in television productions, he became internationally known from 1973 as Detective Bobby Crocker, assistant to the New York police officer Kojak portrayed by Telly Savalas in the television series Use in Manhattan . He embodied this role in five seasons until 1978. After the end of the series, Dobson continued to predominantly appear in television productions. From 1982 until the series was discontinued in 1993, he appeared in nearly 300 episodes of the Dallas spin-off Under the California Sun in the role of Mack MacKenzie. Dobson was also responsible for directing nine episodes of the successful soap opera. In 1997 he took on the same role in the two- parter Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-De-Sac . The role of Mack MacKenzie earned Dobson five Soap Opera Digest Awards .

Parallel to his television career, he also appeared regularly in the theater, including 1999 at the Royal George Theater in Chicago in a production of Yasmina Reza's Drama Art or from 2007 in a national tour of the play Twelve Angry Men as jury number 10. Dobson sat in Director of North Hollywood's Group Repertory Theater, with whom he appeared regularly and also directed several productions.

Kevin Dobson died on September 6, 2020 at the age of 77 of complications from an autoimmune disease . He leaves behind his wife Susan, to whom he has been married since 1968, and three children.

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 1971: Klute
  • 1973–1978: Kojak - deployment in Manhattan ( Kojak , TV series, 117 episodes)
  • 1976: Battle for Midway (Midway)
  • 1980: Love after work (Hardhat and Legs)
  • 1981: All Night Long
  • 1981: Margin for Murder
  • 1981–1982: Shannon (TV series, nine episodes)
  • 1982–1993: Under the California Sun ( Knots Landing , TV series, 291 episodes)
  • 1984: A Woman Can't Forget (Sweet Revenge)
  • 1989: Murderous News (Money, Power, Murder.)
  • 1991: Fatal Friendship
  • 1992: The Cheat - A Wife does accounts (A House of Secrets and Lies)
  • 1994: Touched by an Angel ( Touched By An Angel , television series, one episode)
  • 1995: Death in the Bedroom (If Someone Had Known)
  • 1996: Dead are not silent (Voice from the Grave)
  • 1996–1997: F / X ( F / X: The Series , TV series, 22 episodes)
  • 1997: Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (TV two-part)
  • 1997: Alone Against the Future ( Early Edition , TV series, one episode)
  • 1998: Young, Blonde, and Dangerous (Nobody Lives Forever)
  • 1998: Mom, Can I Keep Her?
  • 1999: The Mortal Enemy (Restraining Order)
  • 2002: Deceptive Luck (She's No Angel)
  • 2005: Crash Landing
  • 2007: Room 1408 (1408)
  • 2007: Rich and Beautiful ( The Bold and the Beautiful , TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 2007: April Moon
  • 2008: Zeit der Sehnsucht ( Days of Our Lives , TV series, 15 episodes)
  • 2008: Cold Case ( Cold Case , TV series, one episode)
  • 2011: The Representative
  • 2012: CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, one episode)
  • 2014: Anger Management (TV series, one episode)

Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audrey T. Hingley: Where Are They Now? Kevin Dobson, Kojak's Sidekick . In: boomermagazine.com from June 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Jordan Moreau: Kevin Dobson, 'Kojak' and 'Knots Landing' Star, Dies at 77 . In: variety.com from September 7, 2020.
  3. ^ Richard Christiansen: It's Act 2 for Cast of Royal George Play . In: chicagotribune.com of January 13, 1999.
  4. ↑ Mike Barnes: Kevin Dobson, Actor on 'Kojak' and 'Knots Landing,' Dies at 77 . In: hollywoodreporter.com from September 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dobson, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobson, Kevin Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2020
Place of death Stockton , California , United States