Wesley Eure

Wesley Eure is an American performer whose television work made him familiar to audiences in the 1970s and beyond. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he began acting in a summer program at Northwestern University and joined the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1970, appearing in plays such as The Tempest. He took on two series roles in 1974: Michael Horton on Days of Our Lives, which he played until 1981, and Will Marshall on Land of the Lost, which ran until 1976. He later hosted the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers and co-created the Emmy-nominated preschool animated series Dragon Tales. In film, he appeared as a murderer in The Toolbox Murders (1978) and as a man eaten by snakes in Jennifer (1978). He has also written children's books, including The Red Wings of Christmas, and received a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in 2007.