Patrick Duffy

Patrick Duffy is an American actor and director known for his television career. Born in Townsend, Montana, in 1949, he studied drama at the University of Washington, graduating in 1971. After early work that included a Taco Bell commercial, he took the part of Mark Harris in Man from Atlantis, a short-lived series, in 1977. His big break came as Bobby Ewing on the prime-time soap Dallas, which ran from 1978 to 1991. He left the show in 1985, returned in 1986 in the shower scene that erased the previous season, and stayed until the series ended. He also directed episodes of Dallas and later starred as Frank Lambert on Step by Step from 1991 to 1998, directing numerous episodes. He played Stephen Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful from 2006 to 2011 and again in 2022 and 2023, reprised Bobby Ewing for TNT's Dallas from 2012 to 2014, and appeared in Welcome to Sweden in 2014.