Gerald LeRoy Lacy (born March 27, 1936) is an American soap opera actor best known for playing the roles of Tony Peterson, Reverend Trask, Reverend Gregory Trask, Mr. Trask, and Lamar Trask on the TV serial ''

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''. He has also appeared on ''

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'', ''

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'' (as Simon Gilbey), ''

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'' (as Rick Latimer), and ''

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'' (as Jonas).

Life and career

Lacy was born in

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. He played

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in both the Broadway show and film version of

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's '' Play It Again, Sam''. During the 1970s Lacy appeared in the films ''

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'', ''The Money'', and ''Blood Bath''. His other film roles include ''The Big G'' and ''

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'', as well as the TV films ''Pleasure Cove'', ''Fighting Back'', and ''Chiller''. Lacy was offered the role of Rev. Trask in the second film based on ''Dark Shadows'', ''

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'', but at the time he was under contract with ''As the World Turns'' and his schedule on the show was too heavy for him to shoot the film. He has been married to actress

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since 1984. The couple met when they were both appearing on the CBS soap opera ''

''. In the 1990s he appeared with his wife on the series ''

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'', as her character's (

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) ex-fiancé, Barry, who dumped her at the altar; and in 2005, in an episode of ''

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'' (which aired in 2006), he appeared as Duffy's character's (Alice Hayfer) husband. He also wrote one of the episodes of Duffy's other comedy series, ''

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''. In the summer of 1970, Lacy was a regular on the CBS summer replacement series, '' Comedy Tonight'', and later a similar show, ''20th Century Follies''. He has guest-starred in a number of primetime shows, including '' McCloud'', ''

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'', '' The White Shadow'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He returned to the role of Gregory Trask in the ''Dark Shadows'' audio dramas ''

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'' (2009) and ''Kingdom of the Dead'' (2010). In mid-2010, Lacy sat for an exclusive interview with freelance writer (and ''Dark Shadows'' fan) Rod Labbe. Entitled "Saints and Sinners", it ran in the September 2010 edition of ''

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'' magazine. Labbe and Lacy collaborated again on a lengthier interview for ''Scary Monsters Magazine''. The issue, #90, was released in December 2013, and the interview is entitled "Right for the Part". Also in 2013, Lacy reunited with his ''Dark Shadows'' costars

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and

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for the feature film ''Doctor Mabuse'', written and directed by Ansel Faraj. Lacy starred as the titular doctor, reprising his role in ''Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar'', released in 2014.

Personal life

Lacy married actress

in 1984. In 1986, they had their first child, a daughter, Kerry. In August 1989, Duffy gave birth to their second child, a son, Daniel. Daniel died by suicide in April 2019.

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