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Patrick Duffy -
Actor
   
Patrick G. Duffy (born
March 17,
1949 in
Townsend, Montana) is an
American
television
actor, who appeared primarily in
soap operas and
television. He is best known as
Larry Hagman's younger TV brother,
Bobby Ewing, on the CBS series
Dallas, and as
Suzanne Somers's husband, Frank Lambert,
on the ABC television
sitcom
Step by Step.
In
1976, Duffy landed the role of Mark Harris in
the television series
Man from Atlantis. Two years later, he got
his big break in the role of Bobby Ewing on the TV
series, Dallas, a role he played until
1991. During this time, he continued to hold a
variety of roles in various TV specials.
On
November 18,
1986, Duffy's parents, Terrance and Marie Duffy,
were murdered by Kenneth Miller and Sean Wentz
during the robbery of a
Montana bar owned by Duffy's parents. Wentz and
Miller, who were teenagers at the time, were
convicted of the murders and sentenced to 180 years
in prison.
By the end of Dallas' run in
1991, Duffy switched to another popular television
role, as the head of the Lambert family (alongside
TV wife
Suzanne Somers) on the family sitcom,
Step by Step, a role which ran until the
show's cancellation in
1998. During that time, he also starred in the
Dallas reunion movies "JR Returns" and "War
of the Ewings."
Duffy continues to act in the
occasional guest or voice acting appearance,
including the shows
Family Guy (in which he appeared once, in
person, as Bobby Ewing with
Victoria Principal's
Pam),
Justice League and
Touched by an Angel.
Recently Patrick has starred in
television movies Falling in Love With the Girl
Next Door and Desolation Canyon. In 2006,
Duffy began a limited run on the daytime soap
The Bold and the Beautiful and the
Hallmark Channel miniseries Broken Trail.
Patrick Duffy is also lesser known
as the left leg of the elusive Scuzzlebutt from the
animated cartoon series
South Park.
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