Daytime Television
More than 600 scripted episodes across Generations, Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives, and The Young and the Restless.
Author · Actor · Emmy-Nominated Writer
Bruce Neckels tells the stories that America lived.
Fifty years in front of the camera and behind the typewriter — from Hollywood soundstages to more than 600 episodes of daytime television. Now he turns the page to his own remarkable life.
Writers Guild of America Award
The Memoir
Matter of Conscience
Revisiting the 60's & 70's — the music, the politics, the protests, the Vietnam War… and prison.
When a young man refused to fight a war he believed was unjust, he chose two years in a federal prison over a uniform. Matter of Conscience is Bruce Neckels' own picturesque, unflinching account of that decision — told with just the right mix of fact, emotion, and humor.
It's the story of a generation: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on the record player, demonstrations in the streets, and one quiet act of defiance that would define a life.
A Life in the Arts
From the soundstage to the page
A career that spans the golden age of daytime drama, the stage, the screen — and now, the printed page.
Emmy® Recognition
Four Daytime Emmy nominations and a recipient of the prestigious Writers Guild of America Award.
Actor & Performer
Decades of credits across film, television, and the stage — the instincts of a performer woven into every script.
Memoirist
With Matter of Conscience, Bruce turns a lifetime of craft toward his own most personal story.
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To say that Bruce Neckels has led a colorful life would be an understatement. His memoir is so much more than a book about his experiences as a conscientious objector.
Leonard Smuts
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About the Author
Five decades of storytelling — and one true story he had to tell himself.
Bruce Neckels has spent a lifetime in the entertainment business as an actor and writer. His acting credits across film, television, and the stage bring another level of creativity to his writing — the kind of instinct you can only earn on a soundstage.
His first break as a writer came in 1989, when he was hired by NBC. The episodes — and the accolades — followed. But it's the story he carried for fifty years that became Matter of Conscience.
Available Now
Some choices echo for a lifetime.
Step inside the music, the politics, and the conscience of a generation. Matter of Conscience is available in paperback and on Kindle.