This classically-trained American repertory actor has gone on to a busy career as a leading man in Broadway shows, TV and films. Since the 1970s, David Dukes has often played diplomats, surgeons and other high-powered professionals and bluebloods. He is particularly remembered for his portrayal of low-level career diplomat Leslie Slote, who finds inner courage, in the ABC miniseries based on the Herman Wouk novels "The Winds of War" (1983), and "War and Remembrance" (1988). Dukes also spent three seasons as the wealthy doctor husband of Swoosie Kurtz's Alex on the NBC drama series "Sisters." seasons of the NBC series "Sisters."