Education
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Colt graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Colt graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.
He co-starred in the films Jagged Edge and North Dallas Forty, and in the James Arness crime series McClain"s Law, which aired on National Broadcasting Company in the 1981-1982 season. In 1976, he made his acting debut as Nick in the Berkeley Stage Theatre production of Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and as Inspector William Holmer in the episode "Castle of Fear" of American Broadcasting Company"s police drama The Streets of San Francisco, starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas. In 1978, Colt appeared as Sam Pray in "Great Expectations", the fourth episode of the short-lived Columbia Broadcasting System legal drama The Paper Chase, starring John Houseman.
In 1979, he appeared on the American Broadcasting Company drama Family and in two episodes of Buddy Ebsen"s Columbia Broadcasting System crime drama Barnaby Jones.
He also played the role of Art Hartman in the Nick Nolte film North Dallas Forty. McClain"s Law premiered some six years after the ending of Arness"s former Gunsmoke western series.
In 1988, Colt was cast as Jack Wheeler, the chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, in the television film To Heal a Nation, based on the establishment of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, District of Columbia Other roles in television films were as Steven Beck in Beverly Hills Madam, as Charles McLean in Maggie, as Kelly Hancock in Mercy or Murder?, as Andrew Winkler in Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story, and as Douglas Erickson in Deceptions. Colt was cast as Bobby Slade in Jagged Edge (1985), as Christopher Dollanganger in Flowers in the Attic (1987), and as Donald Cleary in Illegally Yours (1988).
His last roles in series television were in 1991 as Ross Corman in the episode "Tainted Lady" of Angela Lansbury"s Columbia Broadcasting System drama, Murder, She Wrote and in 1995 in Chuck Norris"s Walker, Texas Ranger, in the role of Lieutenant Lee Corbin in the episode "Whitewater, Participant I."
Colt obtained his Master of Science in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy, from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology, with a concentration in health psychology, accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. After an APA-accredited, adult neuropsychology internship at the Virginia Hospital, Denver, he served a six-month post-doctoral residency in pediatric neuropsychology in Salt Lake City. Colt has been in private practice since 1994.
Colt used to be based in Denver, Coloradoo, where he frequently appeared on radio and television as an expert on psychological topics, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He also wrote the syndicated "Ethics" column for the Denver Business Journal.
He subsequently relocated to San Diego, where he operates Corporate Psychological Management, a consultancy he founded in 1996.