Daniel Hugh Kelly

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Daniel Hugh Kelly (born on August 10, 1952, in Elizabeth, New Jersey), also known as Daniel Hugh-Kelly, is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role on the 1980s ABC TV series Hardcastle and McCormick from 1983-1986 (as ex-con Mark "Skid" McCormick) for which he also wrote and directed. Brian Keith was his costar.

A versatile actor, Kelly starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner's Maggie in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and opposite Madeline Kahn's Billie in Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin. He has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, primarily at The Public Theatre and The Second Stage. A product of regional repertory theater, Kelly has been a company member of The Williamstown Theater Festival (MA), The Folger Theater (DC), Arena Stage (DC), and The Actors Theatre of Louisville among others. He toured with The National Players, the nation's oldest classical touring company. In 2003 he appeared at the Mark Taper Theatre Forum (LA), originating the role of Richard in Living Out by Lisa Loomer.

Kelly's film roles include the 1983 film Cujo, The Good Son, In Crowd, Chill Factor, Nowhere To Hide, Bad Company, Someone to Watch Over Me, Guardian, and Star Trek: Insurrection as Sojef, a member of an alien race called the Ba'ku.

He has been a series regular in such varied television shows as the 1987-1988 sitcom I Married Dora as architect Peter Farrell, the 1982 series Chicago Story as Det. Frank Wajorski, the 1990s TV series Second Noah as Noah Beckett, the 2000s TV series Ponderosa as Ben Cartwright, and in NBC's Walt Disney Presents The 100 Lives of Blackjack Savage which he also co-produced.

Kelly has made notable appearances in mini-series and television movies including TNT's Passing Glory, HBO's Tuskeegee Airmen, Citizen Cohn and From The Earth To The Moon; NBC's Jackie, Joan and Ethel; Women of Camelot and The Nutcracker among others. He has also guest starred on many episodic TV shows including several appearances on Law & Order, its spinoff SVU, as well as The West Wing, Supernatural, Walker;Texas Ranger, Boston Legal and Las Vegas.

Kelly starred on daytime TV in Ryan's Hope as Senator Frank Ryan from 1978-1981, All My Children as Travis Montgomery from 1993-1994, and As The World Turns in a recurring role as Col. Winston Mayer for which he was nominated for a Spirit Award by TV Guide Canada.

An intensely private actor, Kelly has rarely given interviews during his career, preferring his farm in upstate NY to a celebrity lifestyle. The middle of five children, he was born and raised in Elizabeth, NJ where his grandfather and father were career police officers/detectives and his mother a social worker. A graduate of St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA), he briefly pursued an MFA at Catholic University (DC). A baseball fanatic, Kelly has three grown children.