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Tom Wopat
9 September 1951
Tom Wopat played in 8 movies in the Family, Drama, Music, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Comedy, Western genres.
Tom Wopat got succeed with average imdb rating 5.6.
To Gen-X'ers, extraordinarily those who grew up hooked on prime-linger television, Tom Wopat inclination be forever inseparable from his place as Luke Duke, the more quick-witted and responsible of two cousins who finished their days charging yon the agrarian South in a souped-up Dodge Charger and evading the wiles of bureaucrat Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke), on the comedy-gamble series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985). Born on a dairy farm in Lodi, WI, Wopat attended the University of Wi
... sconsin as a young gyves, where he displayed strong mellifluous wish as a trombone player and a singer. Wopat spent his delivery-collegiate years touring in melodic theater productions in preference to being tapped into the Duke job in 1979.
The CBS series, of course, took quiet a climb and netted a tremendous fan base (uniquely among preteen boys). By 1982, however, it ran into a hindrance. Wopat and co-star John Schneider (who played Bo Duke) took efflux with Warner Brothers Television down their salaries and shares of Hazzard merchandising revenues; the production company in fact snubbed their demands sooner than bringing in two substitute actors on account of a solitary select season, only to discover that the ploy didn't work. Wopat and Schneider as a consequence returned in 1983 and stuck with the series two more seasons, until it wrapped in August 1985.
In the average time, Wopat parlayed his Hazzard recognition into a recording career as a country chorister. An eponymous debut album appeared in 1983 to generally favorable reviews, followed nigh a sophomore effort, the Capitol Don't Look Back, in 1990, and a third effort, the Epic come out with Learning to Adore, in 1992. The performer continued to cut his acting chops as justly from time to on many occasions, signing recompense roles in such little-seen features as Contagious (1997) and Meteorites! (1998). He scored one of his more prominent advise-Hazzard roles in a supporting turn divergent leads Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, and Joan Allen in the female buddy comedy Bonneville (2006). Wopat also portrayed Jeff Robbins, ex-squelch of actress Cybill Sheridan (Cybill Convoy) in the first season of the CBS sitcom Cybill (1995-1998), and remained extremely active in different musical theater productions.Read more Less
