Dale Midkiff


Dale Alan Midkiff is an American actor, best known for playing Louis Creed in the horror film Pet Sematary and Captain Darien Lambert in the TV series Time Trax.

Career

Midkiff acted in off-Broadway plays like Mark Medoff's The Wager. His first movie role was in Roger Corman's Streetwalkin' playing a pimp named Duke. Dale's acting was called "grittily impressive" in what some consider a B-movie 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 Jock Ewing in Dallas: The Early Years. That was followed by what many consider his biggest role to date, Elvis Presley, 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 Time Trax, to the amiable ladies' man and town protector in The Magnificent Seven. He is also well known for having played the lead role of Louis Creed in the 1989 film version of Stephen King's Pet Sematary. He also starred in the Hallmark movie classic Love Comes Softly with Katherine Heigl.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985Streetwalkin'"Duke"
1986Dallas: The Early YearsJohn Ross "Jock" EwingTV film
1986Nightmare WeekendKen
1987Top KidsClyde BarrowTV film
1988Casual Sex?Attractive Stranger
1988Elvis and MeElvis PresleyTV film
1989A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman StoryCharles "Buck" ThurmanTV film
1989Pet SemataryDr. Louis Creed
1989Dream StreetDenis DeBeau6 episodes
1991Black MailScott MayfieldTV film
1991PlymouthGil EatonTV film
1991Shoot First: A Cop's VengeanceFarrell TuckerTV film
1991Sins of the MotherKevin CoeTV film
1991The Marla Hanson Story – Face ValueEric WarnerTV film
1992Love Potion No. 9Gary Logan
1993Time TraxDarien Lambert44 episodes
1994Sweet Justice – The Power of Darkness: Part 1 & Part 2Alex BoudreauMiniseries
1994A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story"Red"TV film
1995Visitors of the NightSheriff Marcus AshleyTV film
1995A Child Is MissingPeter BarnesTV film
1996Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: IceDetective Steve CarellaTV film
1997ToothlessThomas JamesonTV film
1997Any Place But HomeCarl MillerTV film
1997Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: HeatwaveDetective Steve CarellaTV film
1998Conversations in LimboUnknownShort film
1998The Magnificent SevenBuck Wilmington22 episodes
1999The Outer LimitsTom CooperEpisode: "Blank Slate"
2000Twice in a LifetimeReeseEpisode: "The Frat Pack"
2000Mysterious WaysJack KestlerEpisode: "Spirit Junction"
2000Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion Bill TemplerTV film
2000Another Woman's HusbandJohnny Miller / JakeTV film
2000The Crow: SalvationDetective Vincent Erlich
2000Air Bud: World PupPatrickDirect-to-video
2000Falcon DownCaptain Hank Thomas
2001Route 666Deputy U.S. Marshal P.T.
2001CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationProfessor Robert WoodburyEpisode: "Chaos Theory"
2001The WardenMurphyTV film
2002Nancy DrewJim "Jimbo" MitchellTV film
2002Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson StoryGary WilsonTV film
2003Love Comes SoftlyClark DavisTV film
2003Maximum VelocityDr. Timothy Briggs
2004Love's Enduring PromiseClark DavisTV film
2004Torn ApartJerry Bender
2004Debating Robert LeeRobert Lee
2005Back to You and MeGus MartinTV film
2005Love's Long JourneyClark DavisTV film
2005Behind the magic of Knights of Impossingworth ParkPrince DarkindeedShort film
2005Deep RescueBen
2005Without a TraceEddie FergusonEpisode: "Transitions"
2006Love's Abiding JoyClark DavisTV film
2006Crossing JordanJerry MillerEpisode: "Save Me"
2007DexterMr. WilsonEpisode: "That Night, A Forest Grew"
2007Love's Unending LegacyClark DavisTV film
2007Boxboarders!Bruce Rockwell
2007CSI: MiamiDoug McClainEpisode: "Deep Freeze"
2007Love's Unfolding DreamClark DavisTV film
2007Totally BakedDoug
2007Love's Unending LegacyClark DavisTV film
2007Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a PlaneDr. Lucas Thorp
2008Lincoln HeightsHarrison DeVriesEpisode: "Ode to Joy"
2008The Clean-Up CrewDan DahlerShort film
20082012: DoomsdayDr. Frank Richards
2009Lie to MeSamuel WynnEpisode: "Control Factor"
2009Criminal MindsGil BonnerEpisode: "Roadkill"
2011Hell's KittyRosemary CarrieEpisode: "Rosemary Carrie"
2013The Client ListJ.D. Whitman Sr.Episode: "Hell on Heels"
2014CastleSheriffEpisode: "Once Upon a Time in the West"
2018Hell's KittyRosemary Carrie
202021 OutsCoach Chris Forbes