Patrick Duffy Remembers His Parents Decades After Their Deaths

In a November 2026 appearance on Steve Kmetko’s Still Here Hollywood podcast, Patrick Duffy spoke about the deaths of his parents, Terence and Marie Duffy. They were killed at the bar they ran in Boulder, Montana, in November 1986. Duffy recalled the shock of hearing the news and the task of telling his two young sons their grandparents had died.

The conversation is striking for the way he remembers what happened after he learned about the killings. News reports could announce what had happened to the family of a television actor. Duffy still had to decide how to speak about that loss in a way his children could understand. The interview puts the emphasis on that quieter part of the experience, after the initial shock and before there had been any real chance to absorb it.

At the time, Duffy was best known to many viewers as Bobby Ewing on Dallas. That role made him a face people recognized, but the lives he described in the interview were his parents’ lives in their own community. The bar was their workplace and part of their connections in Boulder. Remembering them in that setting helps explain why a public retelling of their deaths remains deeply personal for him…………READ MORE NEXT PAGE