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Daniel Hugh Kelly (born on August 10, 1952 in Elizabeth, New Jersey), also known as Daniel Hugh-Kelly, is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role on the 1980s ABC TV series Hardcastle and McCormick from 1983-1986 (as ex-con Mark "Skid" McCormick) for which he also wrote and directed.

An extremely versatile actor, Kelly has starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner's Maggie in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and opposite Madeline Kahn in Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin. He has also appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, primarily at The Public Theatre and The Second Stage in NYC. A product of years of regional repertory theater, Kelly has been a company member of The Williamstown Theater Festival (MA), The Folger Theater (DC), Arena Stage (DC), and The Actors Theatre of Louisville. He also toured for a year with The National Players, the oldest classical touring company in the nation. In 2003 he appeared at the Mark Taper Theatre Forum (LA) originating the role of Richard in Living Out written by Lisa Loomer.

Kelly's film roles include the 1983 film Cujo, The Good Son, In Crowd, Chill Factor, Nowhere To Hide, Bad Company, Someone to Watch Over Me (directed by Ridley Scott), Guardian, and Star Trek: Insurrection as Sojef, a member of an alien race called the Ba'ku.

He has been a series regular in such varied television shows as the 1987-1988 sitcom I Married Dora as architect Peter Farrell, the 1982 series Chicago Story as Det. Frank Wajorski, the 1990s TV series Second Noah as Noah Beckett, the 2000s TV series Ponderosa as Ben Cartwright, and in NBC's Walt Disney Presents The 100 Lives of Blackjack Savage which he also produced.

Kelly has also made notable appearances in mini-series and cable movies including Passing Glory, Tuskeegee Airmen, Citizen Cohn, From The Earth To The Moon, Women of Camelot and The Nutcracker. He has guest starred on many episodic TV shows including several appearances on Law & Order and its spinoff SVU, as well as West Wing, Supernatural, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Las Vegas among others.

Kelly has starred on daytime TV in Ryan's Hope as Senator Frank Ryan from 1978-1981, All My Children as Travis Montgomery from 1993-1994, and As The World Turns as Col. Winston Mayer in 2007.

Known as an intensely private actor, Kelly has rarely given interviews during his long career, preferring his farm in upstate NY to a celebrity lifestyle. The middle of five children, he was born and raised in Elizabeth, NJ where both his grandfather and father were career police officers and his mother was a social worker. A graduate of St. Vincent College (PA) and a baseball fanatic, Kelly has one grown child and resides in LA, Florida and NY.

• One Life To Live (2006) (TV)
• Once Not Far from Home (2005)
• Joe and Max (2002) (TV)
• Ponderosa (2001-2002) (TV; Kelly starred as Ben Cartwright in 20 episodes)
• Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Woman of Camelot (2001) (mini)
• Guardian (2000)
• Growing Up Brady (2000)
• Chill Factor (1999)
• Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
• From the Earth to the Moon (1998) (mini)
• Atomic Dog (1998) (TV)
• No Greater Love (1996) (TV)
• Bad Company (1995)
• The Good Son (1993)
• The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage(TV Series) (1991)
• Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
• Nowhere to Hide (1987)
• Hardcastle and McCormick (TV series) 1983-1986
• Cujo (1983)
• Chicago Story TV Series 1982

• Daniel Hugh Kelly at the Internet Movie Database
• Daniel Hugh Kelly article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki