Dave Riley

Dave Riley was born in Bangor, Maine, graduated from high school in Peabody, Massachusetts, and earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. After graduating from the year-long Russian language program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, he served as a Russian translator on the East German border during the Cold War. It was during his Russian studies that he first got into acting at the Wharf Theater in Monterey. Following schooling and military service, he taught high school English and filmmaking for 18 years. After he retired from a second career as a marketing writer, a chance casting in 2002 as the ultimate victim in Hollywood Homicide got him into film acting. In his first extended principal role in a feature film - as yet untitled but due out in August - he plays a well-meaning but naïve southern preacher. He has studied acting with Hal Landon Jr. at South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, California, and had extensive voiceover training with VO veteran Bud Barth, one of the voices of Fred Flintstone. He is an avid golfer and a daily jogger.