“Dallas” and “Step by Step” kept Patrick Duffy on TV in the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, he’s added 80 more acting credits and directed several films. Good. The Montana-born multi-talent may be the only individual who improved in 2020.

Duffy announced in November that he was dating “Happy Days” actress Linda Purl. Duffy, who was acting in Lifetime’s “Once Upon a Main Street,” told People that they had been casual friends for years before taking the next step while everyone was quarantined.

We’ll discuss their budding romance below, but the actor said, “We’re very pleased. I never expected this.” Before finding love, Duffy lost several of his closest friends.
Before college, Patrick Duffy’s acting career hit a snag.

“I was just about to graduate from the University of Washington and ruptured my vocal cords from lack of judgment, vocal abuse, no rest, drinking too much,” Duffy told Deseret News in 1991, recalling how he lost his voice two decades before. “That ended my career.”