Editing David Selby (section)

===Later career===
Selby continued in numerous film and TV roles during the 1990s and 2000s, including ''[[Dying Young]]'' (1991), ''[[White Squall (film)|White Squall]]'' (1996) and ''[[Surviving Christmas]]'' (2004), and episodes of series such as ''[[Cold Case]]'' (2007) and ''[[Mad Men]]'' (2009).

To mark the 200th anniversary of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s birthday in 2009, Selby appeared onstage with [[Barack Obama]] and portrayed Lincoln in a scene from the play ''The Heavens Are Hung in Black'' at the reopening of [[Ford's Theatre]].{{fact|date=October 2023}} Selby had also played Abraham Lincoln in a 1998 [[Touched by an Angel season 5|fifth season]] episode of the series ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'', titled "Beautiful Dreamer".

Selby made an appearance in the 2012 [[Dark Shadows (film)|film adaptation of ''Dark Shadows]], one of four cast members from the original series to feature in the movie. The same year, he co-starred in ''[[Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (film)|Batman: The Dark Knight Returns]]'', a two-part direct-to-video animated film adaptation of the 1986 graphic novel ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'', portraying [[James Gordon (comics)|Commissioner James Gordon]]. In 2017, Selby had a recurring role in the drama ''[[Legion (TV series)|Legion]]''.