Supporting actor, onscreen from the early '80s.
James Read
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- Studied law in college but fell in love with acting at school and switched career paths.
- Appeared on the first season of Remington Steele (1982-83) as a private investigator.
- Big break came when he was cast as Pennsylvania soldier George Hazard in the 1985 mini-series North and South, a part he reprised in the 1986 and 1994 sequels.
- Fell in love with his North and South wife, played by Wendy Kilbourne, while filming and they later married.
- Best known for his TV work playing dads on Charmed and Wildfire.