Cecil Donald "Don" Briscoe (born
March 20 1940,
Yalobusha County, Mississippi - died
October 31 2004,
Memphis, Tennessee) was an
American soap opera actor, most notable for playing Tony Meritt (#2) on
Days of Our Lives, and, from
1968-
1970, for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on
Dark Shadows.
Briscoe left
Dark Shadows abruptly in 1970 after suffering a "mental breakdown" (according to his sister, Bonny Jenkins) and eventually withdrew from the acting profession and relocated to live with family in Memphis.