Kevin Dobson, the actor best known for playing a pair of detectives on television — Telly Savalas’s protégé on “Kojak” and Michelle Lee’s love interest on the prime-time soap opera “Knots Landing” — died on Sept. 6 at a hospital in French Camp, Calif. His brother Brian said the cause was complications of an autoimmune deficiency that led to heart failure. A New York City native, Mr. Dobson began acting in the late 1960s, working odd jobs at odd hours so that he could attend auditions during the day. He landed his first TV role in 1968, playing a governor on the ABC daytime soap opera “One Life to Live.”He went on to play numerous characters with a New York flair, and often a convincing New York accent, on crime and medical series like “The Mod Squad,” “Emergency!” and “Cannon.”

Source: New York Times September 12, 2020 20:15 UTC