William Devane
William Devane
William Joseph Devaneis an American precious metal salesman and film, television and theatre actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the serial drama 24. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Marathon Man, and Space Cowboys...
ProfessionSoap Opera Actor
Date of Birth5 September 1937
CityAlbany, NY
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continuing creating enduring growth huge potential
Doing a continuing show like that, with the huge growth potential for the character, the possibility of creating an enduring character, it was great.
anymore face interested moved playing work
And I'm not interested in playing someone 47 anymore and getting face work and everything else. I've moved on to grandfather roles.
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I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
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The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
knew red west wing
I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
children good herself originally reading wound wrote
And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.
country guy house
I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.
horse couple real
I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.
grew grew-up neighborhood
I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.
wings presidential west
The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
popularity contests emmys
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
said
When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
writing people stories
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
faces aging destroying
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.