Patrick Duffy Net Worth

Patrick Duffy's Quotes

• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
• [asked if he would write his autobiography] No. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
• [in 2000] I miss regular television. I miss the work ethic of those five-day-a-week things. So, eventually, I'd like to get back to that.
• With a new house, you can pick everything. It's the ability to create what you have in your mind as the perfect house.
• [on being born on St. Patrick's Day] Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently [striven] to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life--and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it! It's great to be able to do shows like Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006), which I think is entirely too long a title.

Interesting Facts about Patrick Duffy

1. Named one of the 100 Alumni of the Century by the University of Washington.
2. He attended the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was an actor-in-residence in UW's theatre program.
3. As of Jan. 2000, in 22 years in show business he's only been out of work a total of three weeks.
4. Loves golf and has played in celebrity tournaments.
5. Graduated from Cascade High School in Everett, WA, in 1967.
6. Son Padraic Duffy (b. 1974) played "Mark Harris" on Dallas (1978). "Mark Harris' was the name of Duffy's character on Man from Atlantis (1977).
7. Could hold his breath underwater for three minutes during his Man from Atlantis (1977) days.
8. Collects antique toys and childrens' books.
9. Two sons Padraic Duffy (b. 1974) and Conor Duffy (b. January 16, 1980).
10. Son Conor Duffy (b. 1/16/80) played "Little J.R." on the final episode of Dallas (1978) in 1991.
11. His wife was the one who suggested the "dream season" to explain Bobby Ewing's return from the dead on Dallas (1978).
12. Dallas (1978) producer Leonard Katzman hired a non-Dallas (1978) crew to film what the crew believed to be an Irish Spring commercial with Duffy. The crew spent hours filming the commercial, which was then superimposed into a scene from Dallas (1978). The result is the famous shower scene where Duffy's character, "Bobby Ewing", returns from the dead and says "Good Morning" to his TV wife, played by Victoria Principal. Principal did not know that Duffy was returning to the show until she saw that cliffhanger on TV, and then phoned him.
13. Earned $75,000 per episode of Dallas (1978), plus $1 million signing bonus (1986-91).
14. Wears a medical alert bracelet on his right wrist to draw attention to his potentially fatal penicillin allergy.
15. He and his wife Carlyn Rosser (1939-2017) first met on a bus. She was 10 years his senior. He always wore his wedding ring throughout the filming of Dallas (1978), even during seasons where his character was unmarried.
16. Son Conor Duffy, graduated from the University of Washington-Seattle in June 2001 with a degree in Drama.
17. Son Padraic Duffy graduated from Princeton (NJ) University in 1996.
18. His last name means "black" in Irish, probably referring to black hair.
19. On November 18, 1986, teenagers Kenneth Miller and Sean Wentz murdered Duffy's parents, Terrence and Marie Duffy, during a robbery at the couple's Boulder Bar in Montana. Wentz and Miller each named the other as the one who fired the shots that killed the Duffys, but both men were convicted of double murder and were each sentenced to 180 years in prison. Later Wentz recanted his testimony and told prosecutors he was the one who murdered the couple, but Miller's November 2000 appeal of clemency was denied.
20. Plays the piano.