David Selby — American Actor born on February 05, 1941,

David Lynn Selby is an American film, television and stage actor. He is perhaps most well known for playing Richard Channing in the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest from 1982-90. Selby has also had prominent roles in the television shows Dark Shadows, Flamingo Road, and the 1980 film Raise The Titanic. Also a published writer, Selby has written several books including novels, memoirs, and collections of poetry... (wikipedia)

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.
But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.