Tall, with long, dirty-blond hair, John Dye has specialized in playing leading men operating the system or those characters with an agenda to which he gives a light touch. He has had his longest run as Andrew, the Angel of Death, on the CBS series "Touched By an Angel". The role was originally a recurring one when he first played it in 1995, but he was made a regular at the start of the 1996-97 season.

The Mississippi-born Dye was bitten with the acting bug after playing the eldest Von Trapp son in a high school production of "The Sound of Music". During his first summer break from college, he