1. Thayer David was best known for his work on the ABC serial Dark Shadows, as Dragon, the Albino ex-Nazi Director of C-2 in The Eiger Sanction and as the fight promoter Miles Jergens in Rocky.
13 Facts About Thayer David
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Thayer David was born March 4,1927, in Medford, Massachusetts.
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Thayer David's father, Thayer Frye Hersey, was an executive in the paper pulp industry.
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Thayer David played the dark and menacing role of Count Saknussem in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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From 1966 to 1971, Thayer David portrayed various characters on ABC's daytime phenomenon Dark Shadows.
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Thayer David played the professional arsonist Charlie Robbins in Save the Tiger with Jack Lemmon, the afflicted spymaster Dragon in The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood, and fight promoter Miles Jergens in Rocky.
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Thayer David played numerous characters on different TV series, including The Wild Wild West, The Rockford Files, Columbo, Ellery Queen, Kojak, Petrocelli, Charlie's Angels, and Hawaii Five-O.
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Thayer David appeared in TV movies such as Nikita Khrushchev in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident and The Amazing Howard Hughes, as well as miniseries such as Roots, The Rhinemann Exchange, and Washington: Behind Closed Doors.
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In 1977, Thayer David played the title role in Nero Wolfe, Paramount Television's made-for-TV movie based on the Rex Stout novel The Doorbell Rang.
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Thayer David portrayed the corpulent detective Nero Wolfe, who took on clients grudgingly and solved mysteries dazzlingly.
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Thayer David played an important role as the lead antagonist, Mr Edward Byron, in the made-for-TV film Spider-Man, which served as the pilot for the 1978 TV series The Amazing Spider-Man.
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Thayer David was married to and divorced from film and television actress Valerie French.
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Thayer David died July 17,1978, of a heart attack in New York City at the age of 51.