# Mark Moses

Mark Moses (born February 24, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Paul Young in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–2011) and as Herman "Duck" Phillips in the AMC period drama Mad Men (2007–2015).

## Early life

Moses was born in New York City. Moses attended Evanston Township High School in Illinois where he was quarterback of the school's varsity football team. He then enrolled at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in English. Moses dropped out after a year to travel. He later enrolled at New York University, where he graduated with a degree in theater.

## Career

Moses began his career appearing in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live in 1983. Also in 1983, he appeared in the Broadway production of The Slab Boys Trilogy starring Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn. He later played Ulysses S. Grant in the ABC miniseries North and South and guest-starred on Family Ties, The Golden Girls and Matlock. Moses also appeared in a number of films by director Oliver Stone, such as Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and The Doors (1991).
Moses played supporting roles in a number of movies, including Gettysburg (1993), Deep Impact (1998), One Man's Hero (1999), Big Momma's House 2 (2006), Swing Vote (2008), Cesar Chavez (2014) and Bombshell (2019). His only leading film role was in the 1997 romantic comedy-drama Just in Time directed by Shawn Levy.
Moses also appeared in several made-for-television movies and was regular cast member in the short-lived sitcoms Grand (1990) and The Single Guy (1995-96). He played Woodbury Kane in the 1997 miniseries Rough Riders and also guest-starred on Touched by an Angel, Star Trek: Voyager, ER, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, Drop Dead Diva, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Scandal and Grey's Anatomy.
In 2004, Moses was cast as Paul Young in the ABC mystery comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives. As the disturbed husband of the deceased Mary Alice Young, Paul was a key character in the show's original main mystery. He left the series as regular cast member after two seasons, but still made some guest appearances in the third season. Moses returned to the series as a series regular after appearing briefly in the sixth-season finale, and was a regular through the 2010–11 season. Along with the rest of the cast, he received two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2005 and 2006.
In 2007, Moses joined the cast of AMC period drama series Mad Men playing a recurring role as Herman "Duck" Phillips.
In 2009, he received another Screen Actors Guild Award, this time for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. The series ended in 2014. In 2012, he had a recurring role in the second season of AMC crime drama The Killing.
In 2014, he co-starred in the fourth season of the Showtime political drama Homeland playing Dennis Boyd. Moses also had a recurring roles on Manhattan, Man Seeking Woman, Law & Order True Crime and Salvation. He played the recurring roles of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and later President Jeffrey Michener in the TNT series The Last Ship from 2015 to 2018, and in the Telemundo/Netflix La Reina del Sur. In 2020, he was a regular cast member in the Fox crime drama Deputy, which, however, was cancelled after one season.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1986 | Platoon | Lieutenant Wolfe |
| 1987 | Someone to Watch Over Me | Win Hockings |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | Optimistic Doctor |
| 1990 | Hollywood Heartbreak | Randy Derringer / Abbey |
| 1990 | Dead Men Don't Die | Jordan |
| 1991 | The Doors | Jac Holzman |
| 1993 | Gettysburg | Sergeant Owen |
| 1997 | Just in Time | Michael Bedford |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Tim Urbanski |
| 1999 | One Man's Hero | Colonel Benton Lacey |
| 1999 | Treehouse Hostage | Rick Taylor |
| 2001 | Race to Space | Alan Shepard |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Father in Video |
| 2004 | The Remembering Movies | Jonathan Clifton |
| 2004 | A One Time Thing | Dr. Norris |
| 2004 | After the Sunset | Lakers FBI Agent |
| 2005 | Monster-in-Law | Guy in Coffee Shop |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | American Officer |
| 2006 | Big Momma's House 2 | Tom Fuller |
| 2006 | Two Tickets to Paradise | Football Dad |
| 2008 | Swing Vote | Attorney General Wyatt |
| 2009 | Carriers | Doctor |
| 2011 | And They're Off | Alex Flamm |
| 2012 | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Anchorman |
| 2012 | Flare: The Hunt | Dale |
| 2013 | Cesar Chavez | Fred Moss |
| 2014 | Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? | Midas Mulligan |
| 2016 | Fear, Inc. | Abe |
| 2018 | Mapplethorpe | Harry Mapplethorpe |
| 2019 | The Gandhi Murder | Sir Percy Sillitoe |
| 2019 | Bombshell | Bill Shine |
| 2020 | Modern Persuasion | Grayson Keller |
| 2022 | Follow Her | Richard |
| 2024 | Reagan | William P. Clark Jr. |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1985 | North and South | Young Ulysses S. Grant | Episode: "#1.1" |
| 1985 | Big Shots in America | Man | Television movie |
| 1986 | Family Ties | Rick Albert | Episode: "Teacher's Pet" |
| 1988 | The Tracker | Tom Adams | Television movie |
| 1989 | American Playhouse | Ira Martin | Episode: "The Silence at Bethany" |
| 1990 | The Golden Girls | David | Episode: "An Illegitimate Concern" |
| 1990 | Grand | Richard Peyton | 20 episodes |
| 1990 | Matlock | Donald Ware | Episode: "The Cookie Monster" |
| 1990 | Father Dowling Mysteries | Everett | Episode: "The Movie Mystery" |
| 1991 | Empire City | — | Television movie |
| 1992 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing | Joel McKelvey | Television movie |
| 1994 | Silk Stalkings | Paul Dyer | Episode: "Love Bandit" |
| 1994 | The Commish | Stuart Walsh | Episode: "The Letter of the Law" |
| 1994 | The George Carlin Show | Brad | Episode: "George Looks Down the Wrong End of .38" |
| 1994 | Diagnosis: Murder | Robin Westlin | Episode: "The Restless Remains" |
| 1994 | A Kiss Goodnight | Michael Turner | Television movie |
| 1995 | Diagnosis: Murder | Stuart Tyler | Episode: "How to Murder Your Lawyer" |
| 1995 | Party of Five | Ben Atkins | Episode: "It's Not Easy Being Green" |
| 1995 | The 5 Mrs. Buchanans | Reverend Charles Buchanan | Episode: "Becoming a Buchanan" |
| 1995 | The Single Guy | Matt Parker | Series Regular, 22 episodes |
| 1995 | The Crew | Jake | Episode: "Invitation to a Wedding" |
| 1997 | Rough Riders | Woodbury Kane | Television movie |
| 1998 | LateLine | Jack Hunter | Episode: "Al Anonymous" |
| 1998 | Chicago Hope | Ron Greenfield | Episode: "Wag the Doc" |
| 1999 | Pensacola: Wings of Gold | Agent Margolis | Episode: "Rules of Engagement" |
| 1999 | Family Law | — | Episode: "Damages" |
| 1999 | Touched by an Angel | Seth | Episode: "The Last Day of the Rest of Your Life" |
| 1999 | Star Trek: Voyager | Naroq | Episode: "Riddles" |
| 1999 | It's Like, You Know... | Fred Swedlowe | Episode: "Hollywood Shuffle" |
| 2000 | Judging Amy | Mark Pruitt | Episode: "Shaken, Not Stirred" |
| 2000 | JAG | Deke Carson | Episode: "Real Deal SEAL" |
| 2000 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Frank - Mystery Book Writer | Episode: "The Wailing" |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Scott Shelton | Episode: "Sex, Lies and Larvae" |
| 2001 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Henry Archer | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | What's Up, Peter Fuddy? | — | Television movie |
| 2001 | James Dean | Dick Clayton | Television movie |
| 2001–2002 | Ally McBeal | Assistant District Attorney | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Providence | Mike Weaver | Episode: "It's Raining Men" |
| 2002 | Presidio Med | Nathan | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Boomtown | Don Schneider | Episode: "Coyote" |
| 2002 | In My Life | — | Television movie |
| 2003 | Saving Jessica Lynch | Lieutenant | Television movie |
| 2003 | The Practice | Henry Winslow | Episode: "Character Evidence" |
| 2003 | ER | Mr. Marks | Episode: "When Night Meets Day" |
| 2003 | 7th Heaven | Mr. Smith | Episode: "Long Bad Summer: Part 1" |
| 2003 | 10-8: Officers on Duty | Dan Harris | Episode: "Gimme Shelter" |
| 2003 | The West Wing | Donald Richter | Episode: "Abu el Banat" |
| 2004 | Malcolm in the Middle | Richard | Episode: "The Block Party" |
| 2004 | The District | Richard Lowe | Episode: "Party Favors" |
| 2004 | Las Vegas | Dr. Miles Marks | Episode: "Things That Go Jump in the Night" |
| 2004 | NYPD Blue | Andrew Moss | Episode: "Who's Your Daddy?" |
| 2004 | Oliver Beene | Dr. Herbert | Episode: "Catskills" |
| 2004–2011 | Desperate Housewives | Paul Young | 75 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2005–06) |
| 2007 | The Hill | Senator Rogers | Unsold TV pilot |
| 2007 | Without a Trace | Rob Darcy | Episode: "Without You" |
| 2007–2008 | Boston Legal | A.D.A. George McDougal | 2 episodes |
| 2007–2015 | Mad Men | Herman "Duck" Phillips | 21 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series |
| 2008 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | James Grall | Episode: "Inconceivable" |
| 2009 | Drop Dead Diva | Joe Dopkins | Episode: "The Chinese Wall" |
| 2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Dr. Forrest Morgan | Episode: "Devil's Bargain" |
| 2009 | Castle | Blake Wellesley | Episode: "Kill the Messenger" |
| 2009 | Ice Twisters | Charlie Price | Television movie |
| 2009 | Acceptance | Wilson Rockefeller | Television movie |
| 2010 | Human Target | Hollis | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2010 | CSI: Miami | Chuck Williams | Episode: "Mommy Deadest" |
| 2011 | Covert Affairs | Will | Episode: "Around the Sun" |
| 2011 | The Closer | Commissioner Jay Meyers | Episode: "Road Block" |
| 2011–2013 | Criminal Minds | Senator Cramer | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | The Killing | Lt. Erick Clarkson | 9 episodes |
| 2012 | Fairly Legal | Bob | Episode: "Satisfaction" |
| 2012 | Common Law | Mayor Richard Barnes | Episode: "The Ex-Factor" |
| 2012 | Key & Peele | Civil War General | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Jeffrey Foresythe | Episode: "Risky Business Class" |
| 2012 | CSI: New York | Mr. Connors | Episode: "Late Admissions" |
| 2013 | Elementary | Oliver Purcell | Episode: "Dirty Laundry" |
| 2013 | Blue Bloods | Curtis Swint | Episode: "Inside Jobs" |
| 2013 | Scandal | Congressman Jim Struthers | Episode: "Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington" |
| 2014 | Rake | Dr. Sam Falcon | Episode: "Man's Best Friend" |
| 2014 | Manhattan | Col. Alden Cox | 8 episodes |
| 2014 | Homeland | Dennis Boyd | 7 episodes Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series |
| 2015–2018 | The Last Ship | President Jeffrey Michener | 17 episodes |
| 2016 | Mr. Robot | Older Man at Bar | Episode: "eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12" |
| 2016 | Crunch Time | Montgomery Wittington | Episodes: "The Party of the Century" and "The Moruga" |
| 2016–2017 | Incorporated | George Caplan | 4 episodes |
| 2016–2019 | Berlin Station | Jason Wolfe | 5 episodes |
| 2017 | Man Seeking Woman | Lucy's Dad | Episode: "Popcorn" |
| 2017 | Conviction | Gerald Harris | Episode: "Past, Prologue & What’s to Come" |
| 2017 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | George Thanos | Episode: "The Newsroom" |
| 2017 | Law & Order True Crime | Gil Garcetti | 3 episodes |
| 2017–2018 | Salvation | Hugh Keating | 7 episodes |
| 2018 | Grey's Anatomy | Dr. Larry Maxwell | Episode: "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" |
| 2019 | The Code | Col. Wesley Riggle | Episode: "Back on the Block" |
| 2019 | La Reina del Sur | President | 3 episodes |
| 2020 | Deputy | Undersheriff Jerry London | Main role |
| 2022 | The First Lady | President George W. Bush | Episode: "That White House" |
| 2022–2024 | So Help Me Todd | Harry | 4 episodes |