David Haskell

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| birth_name = David Michael Haskell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1948|06|04|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Stockton, California, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2000|08|30|1948|06|04}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1972–1998

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David Michael Haskell (June 4, 1948 – August 30, 2000) was an American film, stage and television actor and singer best known for his performance in the musical Godspell.

Early life

David Haskell was born in Stockton, California. David graduated from Terra Linda High School, San Rafael, California, in June 1966.

He attended the College of Marin before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University.

He was also a Past Master Councilor of the Mill Valley Chapter, Order of DeMolay.{{cite web |url=http://mill-valley.freemasonry.biz/demolay.htm |title=Order of DeMolay Mill Valley Chapter |accessdate=February 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728155111/http://mill-valley.freemasonry.biz/demolay.htm |archive-date=July 28, 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Career

Haskell is best remembered for his performance in the 1970s in the New York City, New York, Off-Broadway musical-theatre production Godspell and its subsequent film adaptation (1973) in the dual roles of John the Baptist and Judas Iscariot. He also appeared as Claudio in the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival off-Broadway theatre production (1976), at the Delacorte Theater, of the play Measure for Measure (circa 1603 or 1604) by William Shakespeare.Database (undated). [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=2929 "David Haskell"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410193821/http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=2929 |date=2015-04-10 }}. Internet Off-Broadway Database. Retrieved April 24, 2011.

He played recurring character Nick Hartley on the soap opera Santa Barbara from 1985-1986, the love interest of the character Kelly Capwell played by Robin Wright. He can also be seen as the doctor who saves the life of the dog Jerry Lee at the end of the 1989 movie K-9.

Haskell also made various guest appearances on several television series from the 1970s to the 1990s. Included in these is a 1973 appearance in The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the fourth season episode, "Cottage for Sale". He played a newlywed home buyer named David Russell. He also appeared on Eight is Enough in 1979 as Ed Gardner in the third season, Episode 22, "The Kid Who Came to Dinner."

Death

David Haskell died on August 30, 2000 of brain cancer, aged 52, in Woodland Hills, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.{{cite news |author=Associated Press |date=September 8, 2000 |title=Actor David Haskell |work=Dover New Philadelphia Times Reporter |page=5}}

Partial filmography

Godspell (1973) - John the Baptist / Judas Iscariot
Seems Like Old Times (1980) - Policeman
Deal of the Century (1983) - Rockwell Official
Body Double (1984) - Will
The Boost (1988) - Doctor
K-9 (1989) - Doctor

References

External links

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[http://www.capridge.com/haskell.htm Biography of David Haskell] at Capridge.Com
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Category:1948 births

Category:2000 deaths

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:21st-century American male actors

Category:Male actors from Los Angeles

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male musical theatre actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:Deaths from brain cancer in California

Category:Musicians from Los Angeles

Category:People from Stockton, California

Category:People from Woodland Hills, Los Angeles