Dale Midkiff

Dale Midkiff
Born	Dale Alan Midkiff (1959-07-01) July 1, 1959 (age 65) Chance, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985–present

Dale Alan Midkiff (born July 1, 1959) is an American actor, best known for playing Louis Creed in the horror film Pet Sematary (1989) and Captain Darien Lambert in the TV series Time Trax.

Career

Midkiff acted in off-Broadway 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 the young 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 miniseries, 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.^[1] 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. He also starred in the Hallmark movie classic Love Comes Softly with Katherine Heigl.

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Streetwalkin'	"Duke"
1986	Dallas: The Early Years	John Ross "Jock" Ewing	TV film
	Nightmare Weekend	Ken
1987	Top Kids	Clyde Barrow	TV film
1988	Casual Sex?	Attractive Stranger
	Elvis and Me	Elvis Presley	TV film
1989	A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story	Charles "Buck" Thurman	TV film
	Pet Sematary	Dr. Louis Creed
	Dream Street	Denis DeBeau	6 episodes
1991	Black Mail	Scott Mayfield	TV film
	Plymouth	Gil Eaton	TV film
	Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance	Farrell Tucker	TV film
	Sins of the Mother	Kevin Coe	TV film
	The Marla Hanson Story – Face Value	Eric Warner	TV film
1992	Love Potion No. 9	Gary Logan
1993	Time Trax	Darien Lambert	44 episodes
1994	Sweet Justice – The Power of Darkness: Part 1 & Part 2	Alex Boudreau	Miniseries
	A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story	"Red"	TV film
1995	Visitors of the Night	Sheriff Marcus Ashley	TV film
	A Child Is Missing	Peter Barnes	TV film
1996	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice	Detective Steve Carella	TV film
1997	Toothless	Thomas Jameson	TV film
	Any Place But Home	Carl Miller	TV film
	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave	Detective Steve Carella	TV film
1998	Conversations in Limbo	Unknown	Short film
	The Magnificent Seven	Buck Wilmington	22 episodes
1999	The Outer Limits	Tom Cooper	Episode: "Blank Slate"
2000	Twice in a Lifetime	Reese	Episode: "The Frat Pack"
	Mysterious Ways	Jack Kestler	Episode: "Spirit Junction"
	Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion	Bill Templer	TV film
	Another Woman's Husband	Johnny Miller / Jake	TV film
	The Crow: Salvation	Detective Vincent Erlich
	Air Bud: World Pup	Patrick	Direct-to-video
	Falcon Down	Captain Hank Thomas
2001	Route 666	Deputy U.S. Marshal P.T.
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Professor Robert Woodbury	Episode: "Chaos Theory"
	The Warden	Murphy	TV film
2002	Nancy Drew	Jim "Jimbo" Mitchell	TV film
	Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story	Gary Wilson	TV film
2003	Love Comes Softly	Clark Davis	TV film
	Maximum Velocity	Dr. Timothy Briggs
2004	Love's Enduring Promise	Clark Davis	TV film
	Torn Apart	Jerry Bender
	Debating Robert Lee	Robert Lee
2005	Back to You and Me	Gus Martin	TV film
	Love's Long Journey	Clark Davis	TV film
	Behind the magic of Knights of Impossingworth Park	Prince Darkindeed	Short film
	Deep Rescue	Ben
	Without a Trace	Eddie Ferguson	Episode: "Transitions"
2006	Love's Abiding Joy	Clark Davis	TV film
	Crossing Jordan	Jerry Miller	Episode: "Save Me"
2007	Dexter	Mr. Wilson	Episode: "That Night, A Forest Grew"
	Love's Unending Legacy	Clark Davis	TV film
	Boxboarders!	Bruce Rockwell
	CSI: Miami	Doug McClain	Episode: "Deep Freeze"
	Love's Unfolding Dream	Clark Davis	TV film
	Totally Baked	Doug
	Love's Unending Legacy	Clark Davis	TV film
	Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane	Dr. Lucas Thorp
2008	Lincoln Heights	Harrison DeVries	Episode: "Ode to Joy"
	The Clean-Up Crew	Dan Dahler	Short film
	2012 Doomsday	Dr. Frank Richards
2009	Lie to Me	Samuel Wynn	Episode: "Control Factor"
	Criminal Minds	Gil Bonner	Episode: "Roadkill"
2011	Hell's Kitty	Rosemary Carrie	Episode: "Rosemary Carrie"
2013	The Client List	J.D. Whitman Sr.	Episode: "Hell on Heels"
2014	Castle	Sheriff	Episode: "Once Upon a Time in the West"
2018	Hell's Kitty	Rosemary Carrie
2020	21 Outs	Coach Chris Forbes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Cold River	Detective Steve Carella

References

1. Garron, Barry (1993-04-21). "Time-traveling Role Keeps Actor Hopping". The Kansas City Star. South Florida Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 2014-03-16.

External links

• Dale Midkiff at IMDb