Background
William "Billy" Moses was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of the late actress Marian McCargo (1932–2004) and advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Senior, who married in 1951 and divorced in 1963.
William "Billy" Moses was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of the late actress Marian McCargo (1932–2004) and advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Senior, who married in 1951 and divorced in 1963.
William briefly attended Wesleyan University.
Marian remarried in 1970 to the Republican Congressman Alphonzo East. (1914–2004). Moses is probably best known for playing Cole Gioberti in the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest, from 1981 to 1987. Following six seasons on Falcon Crest and some episodes in the middle of the seven season, he co-starred in the early Julia Roberts film Mystic Pizza in 1988.
Moses returned to soap opera in 1992-1993 when he played the recurring role of Keith Gray on Melrose Place.
He made appearances in two Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley short films, The Case of the Mystery Cruise and The Case of the Sea World Adventure, both in 1995. In 1997, he played David Graysmark in the short-lived series Fame Los Angeles Since 2005, he has appeared as Jack Davis in nine of the Jane Doe movies on the Hallmark Channel.
In recent years, he has appeared in various movies on the Lifetime channel, including A Lover"s Revenge (starring his former Perry Mason co-star Alexandra Paul), and The Perfect Marriage (co-starring Jamie Luner and James Wilder). He also played Madison"s father on The Secret Life of the American Teenager and most recently in Series 5 of television Series.
He then co-starred with Raymond Burr in Perry Mason television films from 1989 to 1995, playing Ken Malansky, an attorney who worked with the title character Mason as a private investigator (although in his first appearance as Malansky, Moses played a law student who was defended by Mason on a murder charge).