Other
Characters:
Quentin
Collins
1970 Parallel Time, Quentin
Collins
1840, Quentin
Collins
1841 Parallel Time Quentin
Collins,
Charles
Collins Night
of Dark Shadows
The spoilt and selfish younger brother of Edward Collins,
Quentin is initially an unredeemed character, misogynistic
and manipulative, content to use his physical and mental
charms to seduce and manipulate those around him. It is
through his callous abandonment of his first wife Jenny
to elope with his brother's wife Laura that his downfall
begins, ending in the dual curse of becoming the werewolf
when a full moon shines, and later of eternal life without
love. It is through these ordeals that Quentin finally learns
the virtues of humility and compassion, though too late
to find personal redemption of his own.
David
Selby was born on
5 February 1941, in Morgantown, West Virginia. He initially
studied at Business College, but lost interest, choosing
instead to pursue acting as a goal. Showing an aptitude
for theatre from an early age, he eventually studied it
at PhD level at Southern Illinois University, though left
before his dissertation was complete, relocating to New
York. Selby's dissertation involved the history of the
American Place Theatre in New York, so presumably proximity
to the subject matter was helpful. He later completed his
course of study and his dissertation and defense at Southern
Illinois University and holds a PhD from their theatre department.
By 1968, Selby was ready to take a teaching job in Brooklyn,
when a casting call from Dark Shadows intervened.
Following Dark Shadows, he relocated to Los Angeles,
where he continues to reside. There, he worked extensively
in episodic television and film. His television credits
include Flamingo Road, Kojak, Police Woman, The Waltons,
The Night Rider, Love for Rent, King of the Olympics: The
Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage, Falcon Crest, Touched
by an Angel and more recently Soldiers of Fortune,
Inc/Special Ops Force, Thieves and Ally McBeal.
Selby's film credits include Up the Sandbox, Raise
the Titanic, Rich and Famous, Intersection, Headless Body
in a Topless Bar, White Squall and Mighty Ducks 3.
David has also acted extensively on the stage, essaying
roles in A Long Day's Journey Into Night, Much Ado About
Nothing, The Crucible, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Henry IV,
The Tempest, Brecht on Brecht, The Last Days of Lincoln,
Ghandi, Brigadoon and The Heiress, amongst others.
In recent years, he has performed in several starring roles
at the Connecticut Hartford Stage theatre.
In recent years, David Selby has worked as a writer, producing
several plays, including Lincoln and James, in which
he played Abraham Lincoln, and Where's Nova Scotia?
He penned a poetry-based career retrospective, In and
Out of the Shadows in 1999, followed by two poetry collections,
My Mother's Autumn in 2000 and Happenstance
in 2001. David's love of classic storytelling and the positive
power of myth recently saw him spearhead an animation aimed
at children, The Griffin and the Canon, in his native
West Virginia, for which he also provided voice of the eponymous
Griffin.
He is currently
engaged in producing a personal website, located at davidselby.com.
In
2003, David reprised Quentin in the Return to Collinwood
reunion audio play. David was a key figure in the play's
conception, and the scipt was written by his son Jamison.
In 2006, she again reprised
the role for Big Finish's series of Dark Shadows
CD audio dramas.
With thanks to MsCriseyde
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