1. William Joseph Devane was born on September 5,1939 and is an American actor.
16 Facts About William Devane
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William Devane is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial dramas 24 and 24: Live Another Day.
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William Devane is known for his work in films such as Family Plot, Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder, Payback, and Space Cowboys.
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William Devane's father was of Irish descent and his mother Kate had Dutch and German ancestry.
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William Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival, where he performed in fifteen plays.
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In 1966, Devane portrayed Robert F Kennedy in the off-Broadway spoof MacBird.
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William Devane is widely known for his ten years as the ambitious and hardnosed politician-turned-corporate titan Greg Sumner on Knots Landing.
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William Devane had a recurring role on the CBS show Early Edition as the lead character's father.
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William Devane has played members of the Presidential Cabinet on two evening dramas.
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In 2004, William Devane appeared in three episodes of Stargate SG-1 as President Henry Hayes and appears in the direct-to-DVD movie Stargate: Continuum.
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William Devane co-starred in the short-lived sitcom Crumbs and as Brian's real-estate broker father in What About Brian.
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William Devane appears as police officer turned psychologist Dr Dix in the Jesse Stone mystery movies with Tom Selleck.
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Also in 2010, William Devane guest starred as retired Detective Peters along with Carl Weathers in episode 6 of season 5 of Psych, Viagra Falls.
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In 2012, William Devane began a recurring role as Grandpa Edward Grayson on the ABC primetime soap opera Revenge.
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William Devane played the President of the United States in the Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight Rises.
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William Devane reprised his role as James Heller, now President, in the limited-run series 24: Live Another Day, which premiered in May 2014.