Dr. Quinn Shows West As It Was, Says Co-Star
Akron Beacon Journal, July 25, l993
by Bridget Byrne
William Shockley, who plays saloon and whorehouse owner Hank on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, says the role is "not
gratuitous; that's what drove the economy in those sorts of towns in l867."
Shockley says Jane Seymour's western series is the surprise Saturday night ratings hit because of its comforting
depiction of "the law of man." (It's ranked 23rd.)
Dr. Quinn "shows good and evil, right and wrong," Shockley says. "If you steal a cow, you get hung.
If you do good, you're OK. It fulfills the hope that love should conquer all, that people can work together to
create a safe community."
In the Robocop theatre film, Shockley played "a very misunderstood rapist" who "got shot in the
part of my body where a rapist should be shot."
In CBS' l990 Bagdad Cafe series, Shockley played a sheriff with eyes for Whoopi Goldberg. In ABC's l99l Good and
Evil series, he played a biker married to an upper-class Teri Garr.
Shockley was in two Jackie Collins miniseries, Lucky/Chances and Lady Boss, and will play a small-town Texas mechanic
in Dream Lover, an upcoming theater film.
Shockley, the son of a businessman and a teacher, has two brothers, is single, and lives in Los Angeles with two
cats.