Originally working as the cook inside a Hollywood restaurant while ingesting acting lessons, his number one acting role was as a flatfoot around Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. He received attention from either his role when Jake Harrison in the soap opera One Life to Live, and he went in to co-star in the popular drama Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Jane Seymour's love interest, Byron Sully. He has besides appeared in the television series The Guiding Light and Higher Ground; the latter he executive produced. He has too appeared inside various films, like I Love You to Death (1990) and No Code of Conduct (1998).