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'' (1989) and Captain Darien Lambert in the TV series ''

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''.

Career

Midkiff acted in

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plays like Mark Medoff's ''The Wager''. His first movie role was in

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's '' Streetwalkin''' playing a pimp named Duke. Dale's acting was called "grittily impressive" in what some consider a

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classic. He has said in interviews that while his family never quite understood his interest in acting, they never discouraged him: "I love them for allowing a kid to believe in his dreams." His first major break came when he landed the role of the young

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in '' Dallas: The Early Years''. That was followed by what many consider his biggest role to date,

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, in the four-hour miniseries, '' Elvis and Me'', and by '' Dream Street'', a short-lived "blue collar" series set in New Jersey. Midkiff's roles have run the gamut from the wife beater in '' A Cry For Help: The Tracey Thurman Story'', to the "good old boy" cop who discovers his partner/best friend is a murderer in ''Vigilante Cop'', to the heroic time-traveling fugitive retrieval cop in ''

'', to the amiable ladies' man and town protector in ''

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''. He is also well known for having played the lead role of Louis Creed in the 1989 film version of

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's ''

''. He also starred in the Hallmark movie classic '' Love Comes Softly'' with

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Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Midkiff, Dale 1959 births American male film actors American male musical theatre actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from Maryland 20th-century American male actors