Shane Van Dyke
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| Occupation(s) | Actor, Screenwriter, & Director |
| Website | http://www.shanevandyke.net |
Shane Van Dyke (born August 8, 1979) is an American television and film actor, best known for playing Dr. Alex Smith on the television series Diagnosis: Murder on CBS Television.
Background
Shane Van Dyke is the son of actor Barry Van Dyke (Airwolf, The Love Boat, Diagnosis: Murder[1]) and grandson of the entertainer Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Night at the Museum). He is a grandnephew of Jerry Van Dyke.
Van Dyke's professional acting career began after graduating high school, when he became involved with the theatre program at Moorpark College in California. He launched his television career as one of the leading characters on the CBS television show, Diagnosis: Murder. In 2002 he starred in the musical Annie.
Career
In the years following his role on Diagnosis: Murder, Van Dyke worked on other television shows including the long running soap opera Bold and the Beautiful, as well as the independent film Arizona Summer.
In the summer of 2007, Shane rejoined his grandfather and father in a series of Hallmark Channel Original Movies titled Murder 101. Around the same period, he also co-starred in the Hallmark mini-series, Shark Swarm, opposite John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Nip/Tuck, Smallville) and Daryl Hannah (Blade Runner, Steel Magnolias, Kill Bill). He also played in the haunting movie of Paranormal Entity as Thomas Finley, the brother of Samantha Finley, and was accused of murdering her.
Van Dyke is also a screenwriter, and gained literary representation with Mad Hatter Entertainment, a Hollywood production and management company with several notable clients, and has performed screenwriter duties for various films including Transmorphers, Street Racer, and The Day the Earth Stopped.
As of 2009 Van Dyke resides in Los Angeles and is a film and television faculty member with Hollywood for Kids.
Shane was the director of the movie Titanic II and portrayed the ship's builder, Hayden Walsh.