David Selby is an American character and stage actor, highly regarded on daytime and nighttime soap classics for his villainous roles, including Quentin Collins on ABC's Dark Shadows, Michael Tyrone on NBC's Flamingo Road, and Richard Channing on CBS' Falcon Crest. Other television credits include Arthur Foster on HBO's Tell Me You Love Me, Roger Castle on ABC's Washington: Behind Closed Doors, and Xavier Trout on AXN's Soldier of Fortune, Inc.

Film credits include Earl Hamner Storyteller, Equals, Dark Shadows, The Social Network, Inhale, Unknown, White Squall, Rich Kids, The Super Cops, The Girl in Blue, and Up the Sandbox. 

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as the Antagonist in Ghandi (Playhouse Theatre), Dom in I Won’t Dance (Helen Hayes Theatre), John Buchanan, Jr. in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Morosco Theatre), and Morris Townsend in The Heiress (Broadhurst Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Franklin Kroner Jr. in Siamese Connections (Anspacher Theater).