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Not to be mistaken with Stephen Caffrey, an Irish footballer.
Stephen Edwin Caffrey (born September 27, 1959, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American television, film and stage actor. He is the fifth of seven children born to an Irish-American family in Cleveland.
At the age of 17, he and his family permanently settled in Chicago, Illinois. Pursuing acting after graduation, he and a close knit group of acting friends founded the Immediate Theatre in Chicago.
Television roles
He has appeared on such TV series as CSI: Miami, Touched by an Angel, Judging Amy, Providence, Profiler, The Practice, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Murder, She Wrote, Columbo, Diagnosis Murder.
His longest stints, for which he is best known, are as Lt. Myron Goldman on CBS's Vietnam War drama series, Tour of Duty, co-starring with Terence Knox, Kim Delaney, Tony Becker, and Miguel A. Núñez Jr. He also starred as Andrew Preston Cortlandt on ABC's All My Children.
Film roles
He appeared in such films as the AIDS drama Longtime Companion (1990), The Babe (1992; starring John Goodman), Buried Alive II (1997; starring Ally Sheedy) and Blowback (2000; with Mario Van Peebles).
Stage roles
In 2004, he appeared as Torvald in a production of A Doll's House and in David Mamet's play Oleanna two years later. He has performed regularly at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, California.