Career
He played the lead Barry Allen on Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Flash superhero series from 1990 to 1991, the title character"s father Mitch Leery on the drama Dawson"s Creek from 1998 to 2001, and roles in daytime soap operas including Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from 1980 to 1984, and Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns from 1985 to 1986 (which earned him his first Daytime Emmy). In 2014 he was cast as Barry Allen"s father Henry in the new Flash television series on the CW network. He played a peeper on an episode of Fantasy Island.
He played the title role of Barry Allen/The Flash in Columbia Broadcasting System"s The Flash in the 1990–1991 season, guest-starred in an episode of Human Target in 1992 on American Broadcasting Company, and was Lucky on National Broadcasting Company"s Sisters in 1994 and 1995.
Shipp would be involved with the Flash again by voicing the villain Professor Zoom ("The Reverse-Flash") in a 2010 episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and being cast as Barry Allen"s father, Henry Allen in the 2014 The Flash series for the CW network. Shipp co-starred in a feature film shot in Australia in 2009 called The Ninja.
He played Detective Matthew Reynolds, and his co-stars were Rob Baard, Tania Zaetta, Roger Cross, John Schneider, and Jeremy Kewley. In November 2010, Shipp returned to One Life to Live in the short-term role of Eddie Ford.
The popular, but villainous character was killed off in a murder mystery in mid-December.
He taped flashback scenes of Eddie"s murder in February 2011, which aired in early April, revealing the killer"s identity. In the summer of 2011, he guest-starred on the Lifetime television series Drop Dead Diva, playing the ex-husband of the character played by comedian Kathy Griffin. Shipp filmed three episodes of the popular series Teen Wolf, based on the 1985 Michael J. Fox film of the same name.
The episodes aired during the summer of 2012.
Also in 2012, he starred in the independent film Hell and Mr. Fudge, where he played preacher Bennie Lee Fudge, the father of theologian Edward Fudge, played by Mackenzie Astin.
Shipp gave a keynote speech to the graduating class of Wake Forest Rolesville High School Class of 1999 in Wake Forest, North Carolina.