David Colson (television)

David Colson (born 1941) is an American television writer, actor, and director.

Credits

  • Days of our Lives (hired by Dena Higley)
  • One Life to Live (hired by Michael Malone; 1995–1997, 2001–2004)
  • Another World (hired by Dorothy Ann Purser; 1984–1989)
  • As the World Turns (1981, 1998–1999) (also as Tom Hughes)
  • Search for Tomorrow (1982–1983)
  • Shipman
  • The Last Minute
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • "A Touch of Frost"
  • Shadowchaser
  • "Soldier Soldier"
  • "The Bill"
  • "Adderly"
  • "Boon"
  • "A Woman of Substance"
  • Space Riders
  • On the Third Day
  • "Minder"
  • "The Professionals"
  • A Passage to India
  • Eureka
  • Dunkirk
  • How to Be a Little Sod

Awards and nominations

He's been nominated for 6 Daytime Emmy Awards (1985, 1989, 1994–1996 and 2002); winning in 1994, and a Writers Guild of America Award. His first nomination was shared with Gary Tomlin, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Judith Donato, Richard Culliton, Judith Pinsker, Frances Myers, Roger Newman, Carolyn Culliton, Lloyd Gold, Cynthia Saltzman.