Cecil Donald Briscoe (born on March 20, 1940 in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, USA) who would play Tony Meritt #2 on the long running NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, and from 1968-1970, is remembered for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on the cult ABC soap Dark Shadows.

After he was fired from that show after personal problems, he went to Memphis, Tennessee and lived there until he died from heart failure on October 31, 2004 at the age of 64.