Biography

A talented and versatile character actor, T David Rutherford began performing on the stage at the age of 12. Born in Ft. Worth, Texas he was a ‘Preacher’s Kid’ who grew up in the Midwest in Missouri and Kansas. He learned to talk in Hartford, Connecticut while his father was in seminary. “That was the first great trauma of my childhood. I considered myself a Texan, but I lived in the Midwest and sounded like Teddy Kennedy”, he says.

He has been active in volunteering throughout his life, including scouting through which he even attended a World Jamboree in Japan, became an Eagle Scout and was active with the American Red Cross Disaster Services. Out of high school he attended the U.S. Air Force Academy. “That didn’t take” he says. “I was more interested in the campus radio station and the theatre than studying”. He finished his degree in broadcasting and speech communications at Wichita State University. After college he spent some time in radio, and entered sales, selling everything from radio and TV ‘Air’ time to heavy industrial cranes and road graters, finally settling on a career in computers.

Active in radio and TV voice-overs, commercials, industrials and independent films, he has performed in theatre since childhood, professionally since 1990. He has been seen on stage throughout the front range of Colorado including Aurora Fox Theatre, Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton, the Nomad in Boulder, Pinnacle Dinner Theatre and Country Dinner Playhouse in Denver and other venues in Colorado and Kansas.

Independent Film credits include “The Vessel”, “Alice in Wasteland”, “Modern Bohemia” and “Surplus”.

On stage roles include Matthew Harrison Brady in ‘Inherit the Wind’, Buffalo Bill in ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, lead roles in Neil Simon’s ‘Last of the Red Hot Lovers’ and ‘The Seven Year Itch’. Other shows include professional productions of ‘Music Man’, ‘Lend Me A Tenor’, ‘She Loves Me’, ‘Footloose’, ‘42nd Street’ and many others.

David married his college sweetheart and has two daughters and two Lhasa Apso puppies to keep him busy. He enjoys the theatre, golf and computers.