Daniel Hugh-Kelly's address: 7017
Beckett St., Tujunga, CA 91042 Second: 130 West 42nd St #2400, New
York, NY 10036
"Skid" Mark McCormick(Daniel
Hugh-Kelly) - McCormick was born September, 1954 in Atlantic City, New
Jersey. His mother is Donna McCormick. His father is Myron Lansky aka Sonny
Daye. No sibling have ever been mentioned. His father, a lounge singer, left
Mark and his mother on Mark's 5th birthday. Sonny became a safecracker, went to
prison then returned to Atlantic City to continue as a lounge singer. Mark and
his mother ended up living in Hoboken, New Jersey. We assume Donna died although
no date or reason was ever given. Mark found Sonny the day after his 30th
birthday. The two now have a strained, long distance relationship. On his own
since he was 15, Mark started stealing cars when he was 17. In and out of
trouble with the law, he met Johnny "Flip" Johnson and his daughter, Barbara. He
bagan racing and earned the nickname, "Skid". Almost married Kiki Cutter when
she lied about being pregnant. She marrried Sammy O'Connell, the racing champion
that year, instead. Mark gained a reputation as one of the best race car drivers
around and moved to California to continue racing. He started dating Melinda
Marshall. To keep his insurance premiums down, Mark put his new Porsche in her
name. When they broke up, she reported him for stealing her car, and he was
arrested for Grand Theft Auto. He was sentenced to 2-5 in San Quentin, paroled
in 1983. He started working with Flip again as Flip developed a new race
car--the Coyote. When Flip was murdered, Mark was arrested again for Grand Theft
Auto for stealing the Coyote for Flip's daughter. He came before Judge
Hardcastle as his last case. Hardcastle retired and Mark was put into his
custody and the two became partners going after criminals that slipped through
the system on legal technicalities catching Flip's murderers as their first
case.
Daniel Hugh-Kelly
Veteran stage, television and film
actor Daniel Hugh Kelly came to the attention of TV audiences in the ‘80s as
ex-con-turned-vigilante Mark “Skid” McCormick in the popular action-detective
series “Hardcastle and McCormick” in which he starred opposite Brian Keith.
Kelly’s diverse theater background comprises a multitude of acting credits
ranging from classic to contemporary. In regional theater, he starred in “Much
Ado About Nothing,” “Taming of the Shrew” and “The Rain Maker” at the Actor’s
Theatre of Louisville, and “Once in a Lifetime” and “An Enemy of the People” at
the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. In addition, he has been a frequent player
at the Williamstown Theatre Festival having appeared in “The Lucky Spot,”
“Barbarians,” “Enemies” and “Room Service.”
He starred off-Broadway in the
Second Stage productions of “Juno’s Swans” and “Fishing,” and at the New York
Public Theatre under the direction of Joseph Papp in “Hunchback of Notre Dame”
and “Miss Margarida’s Way.”
On Broadway, Kelly has starred in
revivals of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Born Yesterday.”
Kelly’s work on television, as on
stage, runs the gamut. Throughout his career, he has appeared regularly on
daytime dramas and in TV movies. He also pulled double duty by occasionally
serving as a director and writer on “Hardcastle and McCormick.” Among his TV
movie credits are “Murder Ink,” “Dark Eyes,” “Intensive Care,” “Tuskegee
Airmen,” “Citizen Cohn” and “From Earth to the Moon.”
His feature film credits include
“The In Crowd,” “Chill Factor,” “Star Trek: Insurrection,” “The Good Son,”
“Someone to Watch Over Me” and “Cujo.”
