# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-selby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:14.357Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-selby"
name: "David Selby"
slug: "david-selby"
description: "David Lynn Selby is an American film, television, and stage actor and writer. He played Quentin Collins on the daytime soap Dark Shadows (1968–1971) and Richard Channing on the prime-time soap Falcon Crest (1982–1990). Selby also had prominent roles in the television series Flamingo Road (1981–1982) and the feature film Raise the Titanic (1980)."
tagline: "American actor (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Selby_at_The_Dark_Shadows_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.55
  momentum:             1.405274813770888
  historical:           16.14121333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782978/"
    handle:    "nm0782978"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidselby.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید سلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "دیوید سلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デヴィッド・セルビー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_%EC%85%80%EB%B9%84"
    title: "데이비드 셀비"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Selby"
    title: "David Selby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "ڈیوڈ سیلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1176588"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump