David Chisum is an American actor. He portrayed Miles Laurence on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live from February 9, 2007 to April 22, 2008.David Chisum and Rebecca Staab will star in eight 35-second webisodes airing each week during the sixth season of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.Chisum is originally from Livonia, Michigan and was raised in Fullerton, California. He and his wife Aishah are parents of a son, Aiden, and a daughter, Zoie. He has also guest starred on the final iCarly episode "iGoodbye" playing Colonel Steven Shay, the father of Carly and Spencer.
Chisum simultaneously played two characters on different shows in extremely similar familial situations. On one show, Black Box (TV Series), he played the brother of the main character, who, as a teenager, gave up her newborn daughter to him and his wife to raise. On the other show, Crisis (TV Series), he played the husband of a woman whose sister, the main character, as a teenager, gave up her newborn daughter to them to raise.