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Dakin Matthews

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Dakin Matthews

Born Nov 7, 1940 · 85 years126 titles 55 movies · 71 TV
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Biography

Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews (born November 7, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. Best known as Herb Kelcher in ‘’My Two Dads’’ (1987-1989), Hamlin Charleston in ‘’Gilmore Girls’’ (2000-2007), and as Reverend Sikes in ‘’Desperate Housewives’’ (2004-2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dakin Matthews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Melvin Richard Matthews · Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews

Born

Nov 7, 1940

Oakland, California, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

126

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Directing

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Writing

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Career timeline

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1978 1 title(s)

1982 3 title(s)

1984 2 title(s)

1986 3 title(s)

1987 2 title(s)

1988 10 title(s)

1989 9 title(s)

1990 3 title(s)

1991 9 title(s)

1992 5 title(s)

1993 10 title(s)

1994 5 title(s)

1995 5 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

1997 8 title(s)

1998 5 title(s)

1999 3 title(s)

2000 5 title(s)

2002 2 title(s)

2003 2 title(s)

2004 4 title(s)

2005 2 title(s)

2006 2 title(s)

2007 1 title(s)

2008 3 title(s)

2009 4 title(s)

2010 1 title(s)

2011 1 title(s)

2012 3 title(s)

2013 2 title(s)

2014 1 title(s)

2015 2 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2018 1 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2022 1 title(s)

2023 1 title(s)

2024 2 title(s)