Mark Withers (born June 25, 1947, in

Binghamton, New York Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

) is an American actor, best known for his roles on television. His most prominent role is probably Ted Dinard, the ill-fated gay lover of

Steven Carrington Steven Daniel Carrington is a fictional character on the American prime time soap opera ''Dynasty''. Steven is noteworthy as one of the earliest gay main characters on American television. Despite identifying as homosexual, Steven has relationship ...

(played by

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) during the 1981 first season of the prime-time

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''. Other television credits include: ''

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'', '' The Greatest American Hero'', ''

Magnum P.I. ''Magnum, P.I.'' is an American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from December 11, 1980 to May 8, 1988 during its first-run broadcast on th ...

'', '' The Dukes of Hazzard'', '' Hart to Hart'', '' Remington Steele'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Matlock'', '' The King of Queens'' and '' Frasier''.

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* 1947 births Living people American male television actors American male film actors Actors from Binghamton, New York {{US-tv-actor-1940s-stub