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Stephen Caffrey | |
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| Born | September 27, 1959 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Film, television, & theatre actor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Stephen Edwin Caffrey (born September 27, 1959, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American television, film and stage actor.
He is the fifth of seven children born to an Irish-American family in Cleveland. At the age of 17, he and his family permanently settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Steven pursued an acting career after graduation and with a close knit group of acting friends, he founded the Immediate Theatre in Chicago.
He has appeared on such TV series as The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ; CSI: Miami ; Touched by an Angel ; Judging Amy ; Providence ; Profiler ; The Practice ; Seinfeld ; Chicago Hope ; Murder, She Wrote ; Columbo and Diagnosis Murder . His longest stint, for which he is best known, are as Lt. Myron Goldman on CBS's Vietnam War drama series, Tour of Duty . He also starred as Andrew Preston Cortlandt on ABC's All My Children . He appeared in such films as Longtime Companion (1990), The Babe (1992), Buried Alive II (1997), and Blowback (2000).
Caffrey has performed regularly at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California. In 1997, he performed in Leslie Ayvazian's Singer's Boy , directed by Carey Perloff. [1] [2]
In 2003, Caffrey replaced Canadian actor Geordie Johnson as Torvald Helmer in a production of A Doll's House due to visa issues as a result of the war on terror. [3] In 2004, he was in a production of The Real Thing. [4] In 2005, he was Anthony Voysey in David Mamet's adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance . [5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1984-1985 | All My Children | Andrew Preston Cortlandt | |
| 1987-1990 | Tour of Duty | Lt. Myron Goldman | |
| 1989 | Longtime Companion | Fuzzy | |
| 1990 | Columbo | Justin Rowe | Episode: Columbo Goes to College |
| 1990-1993 | Murder, She Wrote | Alex Seletz/Jonathan Baker | 2 episodes |
| 1991 | L.A. Law | David Schaeffer | Episode: The Beverly Hills Hangers |
| 1992 | Diagnosis: Murder | Dr. Jack Parker | TV movie |
| For Richer, for Poorer | Mark | TV movie | |
| The Babe | Johnny Sylvester (age 30) | ||
| Dinosaurs | Scabby (voice) | Episode: Leader of the Pack | |
| The House on Sycamore Street | Dr. Jack Parker | TV movie | |
| The Legend of Prince Valiant | Toby/Messenger Boy (voice) | 2 episodes | |
| 1993 | A Twist of the Knife | Dr. Jack Parker | TV movie |
| 1993 | Murder of Innocence | Matthew Wade | TV movie |
| 1994 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies | John Ford | TV movie |
| 1997 | Seinfeld | Arnie | Episode: The Yada Yada |
| 2000 | Touched by an Angel | Phil Grabowski | Episode: A House Divided |
| Blowback | Agent Norwood | ||
| 2005 | CSI: Miami | Gary Hall | Episode: Nailed |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | Tom | |
| 2015 | American Odyssey | David Tennant | 4 episodes |
| 2019 | NCIS | Kevin Braddish | Episode: Bears and Cubs |
| 2021 | Bosch | Andrew Patterson | Episode: "Workaround" |
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