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Thayer David (born David Thayer Hersey; March 4, 1927 – July 17, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor. He was best known for his work on the ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), as Dragon, the Albino ex-Nazi Director of C-2 in The Eiger Sanction (1975) and as the fight promoter Miles Jergens in Rocky (1976).
Thayer David. Actor: Rocky. He was David Thayer Hersey from an upper crust Winchester, Massachusetts family. After secondary school he began attending Harvard University. Along with several students he founded the Brattle Theatre Company in 1946.
Jul 20, 1978 · Thayer David, an actor whose resonant voice and imposing bearing won him wide variety of stage and film roles, and who was a co‐founder of the Brattle Theater in Massachusetts, died in New...
Nero Wolfe is a 1979 American made-for-television film adaptation of the 1965 Nero Wolfe novel The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout. Thayer David stars as Wolfe, gourmet, connoisseur and detective genius. Tom Mason costars as Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's assistant.
Thayer David was an American film, stage, and television actor. He was best known for his work on the ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), as Dragon, the Albino ex-Nazi Director of C-2 in The Eiger Sanction (1975) and as the fight promoter Miles Jergens in Rocky (1976).
Thayer David (March 4, 1927 – July 17, 1978) was born David Thayer Hersey in Medford, Massachusetts. As an actor, he starred in various film and television projects since the 1950's, but is best known for playing the raspy-voiced Professor Stokes on the 1966 ABC television series, Dark Shadows.
Thayer David was a film and television character actor from the late 1950s through the late '70s. A veteran of the Broadway stage before launching into television on various theater programs, David may have lacked something in appearance, but he compensated with his voice.
Thayer David was a film and television character actor from the late 1950s through the late '70s. A veteran of the Broadway stage before launching into television on various...
Thayer David. AKA David Thayer Hersey. Born: 4-Mar - 1927. Birthplace: Medford, MA. Died: 17-Jul - 1978. Location of death: New York City. Cause of death: Heart Failure. Remains: Cremated. Gender: Male.
- March 4, 1927
- July 17, 1978
By virtue of his prominent eyebrows and chin and his brutish frame, David tended to be typecast as villains, notably as the odious Count Sacnusson in Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959), the shadowy arsonist in Save the Tiger (1973) and the untrustworthy boxing promoter in Rocky (1976).