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Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: Twentington on August 05, 2011, 11:01:23 PM
Thought I'd asked this before but apparently not.

So, what else did David Sparks do? IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0816973/) says he's a British-born actor with a handful of one-episode roles, but things just aren't adding up here.

* His only role to that point was on a single episode of a British show 7 years prior.
* It just seems strange that they'd pick a completely unknown Brit to host a cable syndie game show. If they wanted new blood who worked cheap, wouldn't an American be cheaper? (And I suppose it's possible he could've already moved to the US by then, but see below.)
* He doesn't sound remotely British. (I know it's possible to take speech therapy to hide an accent, but when your résumé is one episode long, is it really needed or feasible?

So yeah. What exactly did David Sparks do before The Cross-Wits? I have every reason to believe that IMDb is way off base here. (And besides All About the Opposite Sex, what did he do afterward?)
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: trainman on August 07, 2011, 01:31:41 AM
I believe IMDB has mixed up two different David Sparkses -- that's a fairly common IMDB problem.
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: tyshaun1 on August 07, 2011, 05:43:14 PM
David Sparks was a Dallas news anchor and PM Magazine host before going to Hollywood. He was up for the "Bargain Hunters" job that went to Tomarken in '87 (Peter likely wished they had chosen David for the job, in retrospect). He also did some outdoors show work for ESPN2 sometime in the 90's, too.

Tyshaun
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: Jamey Greek on August 08, 2011, 08:57:15 PM
Where is he now I wonder?
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: Twentington on August 08, 2011, 09:50:44 PM
Quote from: tyshaun1 on August 07, 2011, 05:43:14 PM
David Sparks was a Dallas news anchor and PM Magazine host before going to Hollywood. He was up for the "Bargain Hunters" job that went to Tomarken in '87 (Peter likely wished they had chosen David for the job, in retrospect). He also did some outdoors show work for ESPN2 sometime in the 90's, too.

Gracias. Exactly what I was looking for.
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: chrisholland03 on August 08, 2011, 09:52:20 PM
Quote from: Jamey Greek on August 08, 2011, 08:57:15 PM
Where is he now I wonder?

It's 9pm CST on a Monday night, I would wager at home.
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: dazztardly on October 24, 2012, 07:22:20 PM
From the "Where are they now?" files...

David Sparks Ph.D, is now a podcast host on the Northwest AG Information Network.

Podcasts:
http://www.aginfo.com/index.cfm/event/author/id/19

David's Blog:
http://courageouslovejourney.wordpress.com/about-2/
Title: Cross-Wits 86 question
Post by: BrandonFG on October 24, 2012, 07:23:54 PM
Dr. Sparks, huh... :-)

He kinda looks like Pat Sajak now...