Paul Raven
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May 72 Viki marries Steve Burke
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Erin Connor Tom LigonKathleen McGuire April 20, 1970. MAGUIRE April 20, 1970| Credit: ABC Photo Archives EMBED LICENCE March 17, 1970. TOM LIGON March 17, 1970| Credit: ABC Photo Archives EMBED LICENCE March 17, 1970. CONNOR March 17, 1970| Credit: ABC Photo Archives EMBED LICENCE
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That is Joan Anderson who played Nurse Mary Mitchell. Some more classic ATWT Dagne Crane (Sandy Hughes) December 15, 1966 Eileen Fulton (as Lisa Miller). December 15, 1966| Credit: CBS Photo Archive LICENCE
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Robert Horton, who played Whit McColl has died aged 94. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/arts/television/robert-horton-handsome-scout-on-wagon-train-dies-at-91.html?_r=0
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Nov 72 La Lucci with Eileen Letchworth who played Margo
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Irna Phillips on set with Augusta Dabney and William Prince Matthew Cowles and Dorothy Lyman with Darryl Wells
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1969 photo
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1962 cast photo
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A still from the Days piloy with Mary Jackson as Alice Horton.Does anyone know why she was replaced? Marie Cheatham as Marie Horton, Macdonald Carey as Tom Horton, Mary Jackson as Alice Horton -- July 01, 1965| Credit: NBC LICENCE Marie Cheatham as Marie Horton, Macdonald Carey as Tom Horton, Mary Jackson as Alice Horton -- July 01, 1965| Credit: NBC LICENCE
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Susan Flannery as Dr. Laura Spencer Horton, Edward Mallory as Bill Horton January 01, 1900| Credit: NBC LICENCE Mary Frann as Amanda Howard , Joseph Gallison as Dr. Neil Curtis in 1974 January 01, 1900| Credit: NBC LICENCE Eileen Barnett as Stephanie Woodruff, Josh Taylor as Chris Kositchek January 01, 1900| Credit: NBC LICENCE
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Jeff Fahey talks Gary Corelli One Life To Live (1982-1985)—“Gary Corelli” http://www.avclub.com/article/jeff-fahey-is-just-as-baffled-by-ilost-ias-the-res-83762JF: Oh my gosh. Yeah, One Life To Live, that was fantastic, because I was part of a theater group doing off-off-Broadway shows, and I’d done a few Broadway shows, but getting Gary Corelli on One Life To Live helped me finance some of the plays I was involved in with the theater group at the Raft Theater on 42nd Street. So that was great for two reasons. First, it was great to have a job and to afford to get my own place in New York and not sleep on the floor in a loft with 10 other people. [Laughs.] So that was very exciting, to have this big paycheck like that. But I learned a lot working on a soap, dealing with whatever it was, 12 or 15 hours a day, pumping out and being a part of a complete script every day. I learned quite a bit. And, you know, there were a lot of people working on soaps back then that went on to… I mean, Tommy Lee Jones had just worked on it before, and Meg Ryan was working down the street and Alec Baldwin was working up the street. All kinds of cats were working on soaps at the time that moved on to other things. But it was a very exciting time early in my career to have a steady paycheck. AVC: Have any of Gary’s storylines stuck with you as particular favorites? JF: No, not really. It was all just part of the whole training ground. The stories and storylines themselves don’t necessarily stick out.
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In this interview Frances Fisher mentions EON http://www.avclub.com/article/frances-fisher-on-ititanici-and-her-lost-comedy-ro-84886 The Edge Of Night (1976-1981)—“Det. Deborah ‘Red’ Saxon”FF: [Laughs.] Oh my God. Well, that was back in the late ’70s, when we shot soap operas from beginning to end. We didn’t go set by set. So it was a fantastic experience, because we would all go to the set at 2:30 and watch each other’s scenes as the camera moved around the stage, helping each other with our scenes. It was a really great experience for me as a young actor and a lot of fun. We were truly a family, both cast and crew. And I really enjoyed playing that character because I got to do so many wacky things.
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Jonathan Frakes talks TD The Doctors (1977-1978)—“Tom Carroll” Jonathan Frakes: Oh, so that’s how it’s gonna be: You’ve done your research! In that case, let me go turn the music off. [Laughs, then vanishes for several seconds.] Tom Carroll: Vietnam vet, child beater, bank teller. The A.V. Club: That’s a hell of a nutshell summary. JF: And when he had flashbacks, there was, like, a ’50s sci-fi spinning graphic that looked like it had come out of his ass. [Laughs.] That was, what, the mid-1970s?That was my first big gig!
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In this interview looking back at her career Jackee Harry briefly mentions AW http://www.avclub.com/article/jackee-harry-227-ladybugs-and-why-she-wants-be-nex-232860 JH: I was thrilled to get the job because it was a steady gig. They’d pick us up at 5:35 in the morning, schlep all the way to Brooklyn from Manhattan, and I’d get there and you’d get 30 pages in the morning, and you get another 30 pages in the afternoon. You had to have your storyline. I always had this feeling when I got off at the end of the day of being so lucky and fabulous. I really did. At least, until I realized that if I wanted to grow, I’d have to leave eventually. If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you’ll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you’ll never get the shot. AVC: Some actors have been on soap operas forever. JH: They’ve done very well, but you better be a character they want to see all the time. But it’s a different style of acting.
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Interview with Ted Danson where he discusses TD. I think someone's memory is a ittle fuzzy Somerset (1975-1976)—“Tom Conway”The Doctors (1977-1982)—“Mitch Pierson” AVC: Barring commercials, it looks like your first real TV job was on the soap opera Somerset. TD: [Laughs.] Yes. Yes, it was. The scariest, hardest job I’ve ever had. AVC: Actually, there’s a clip of you on Late Night With David Lettermanwhere—almost 15 years after you did Somerset—you said that you still broke into a sweat whenever you heard the “five, four, three, two, one” countdown. TD: Oh, lord, yes. I don’t know if I was 24 or 25, but I’d been doing a little off-Broadway, and it was basically my first time in front of a camera. And I had your basic 24-year-old nervous-breakdown anxiety attack, because I had been hired to do two soap operas the same day, and I took both of them… and they were bothreally mad at me! I guess it’s always hard on you when you step out into the world, but for me there was this terrifying moment of, “Oh, dear lord, here I go.” At, like, 11 p.m. at night, I actually called… You know, I almost remember his name, but he was this psychologist down in the village, and most of my buddies from Carnegie Mellon who had come to New York to make their way ended up seeing this guy. So I called him and said, “!@#$%^&*] it, I’m not going to go.” And he said, “Whoa, whoa, slow down. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. Take a Valium and chill out and go. You don’t want to not go.” Well, I didn’t realize that me and Valium didn’t get along real well. [Laughs.] So I take my Valium at 3:30 in the morning and I get a couple of hours sleep, and I show up, and... I think the first show of the day was The Doctors. Yeah, I think I was on The Doctors in the morning, and I was playing this doctor who had to tell these parents that their daughter had cancer. I was supposed to be the reassuring, calming doctor, and they were supposed to be the nervous bad parents. But they’d been on the show forever, and I was just pouring out Broadcast News sheets of sweat. [Laughs.] I wasn’t perspiring: I was literally a waterfall, I was so nervous. The reassuring doctor was just a mess! And then I went off to do Somerset, where I was supposed to be the town cocksman. I was coming onto every woman in the village. And the scene I had was with an actress who had been there for a year or so, who was relaxed and calm and good, and I had the waterfall going. And the producer looked at me and went, “Okay, forget the leading-man part. We’ll make him the town sleaze who’s turning all his friends in to the Mafia!” AVC: You must’ve gotten at least a little better on The Doctors if they gave you another role a few years later. TD: Yeah, but it’s still true: If I hear “five, four, three, two, one” and someone points at me, I just start sweating! Firstly they have Mitch Pierson as 77-82. I think the first role they discuss must have been a day player thing.As for the lead characters whose daughter had cancer,I can't place that. The Mitch Pierson role was after Somerset. Not sure how long he was on.
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Interview with character actor Fred Melamed with a mention of OLTL http://www.avclub.com/article/fred-melamed-casual-coens-and-making-larry-david-l-229369 One Life To Live (1981-1982)—“Alberto Cervantes” AVC: You mentioned earlier that you got your start in theater, but it looks like your first on-camera role was playing Alberto Cervantes in One Life To Live. FM: Yes, I think that was my first time on camera! My first film was calledLovesick, with Dudley Moore, but I think that was after that. Well, what happened was that I went to the Guthrie right after I got out of drama school, as I mentioned to you, and when that season was over, I came back to New York and I got the job as a recurring character on One Life To Live, which at the time was already a very venerated and beloved soap opera. But, yeah, that was my first on-camera experience at all. When I went to drama school, we weren’t given any instruction at all in anything other than theater acting, the presumption—the probably incorrect assumption—being that if you could handle the theater, then everything else should come sort of naturally or easily. I’m not so sure that that idea is borne out by reality, but nonetheless we were given no instructions in acting in any other milieu. So I got this job on the soap opera, and I was extremelynervous in front of the camera. [Laughs.] There was a guy who was one of the leads in the soap opera, a very nice guy called Michael Storm, and I had a lot of my scenes with him. The storyline was that there was a couple who was looking to adopt a baby in Llanview, the fictional town in Pennsylvania where all the action took place, and I was from a fictional Central American country, some country that was supposed to be around Honduras but didn’t actually exist. But I would heroically steward unwanted children out of the country there and set them up for adoptions for people in the United States who wanted to adopt babies. So I was introduced with that as kind of my main function, and then I developed a love interest with somebody who’d been on the show for a long time. Anyway, I had a lot of my scenes with this guy Michael Storm, who was a lovely guy, but he had been on the show for probably 20 years or more already, and, well, you know, he took it seriously, but 20 years on a show is a long time! [Laughs.] And he realized that I was very easy to make laugh, and I’d crack up.One Life To Live was an hour show, and we had to shoot an hour show every day, five days a week, so you really had to slog through a lot of stuff and learn a lot of lines to do an hour show a day. And he realized that I was an easy mark, and he had this method—I don’t know how he did it—where he used to look at me and cross his upstage eye, so that the camera couldn’t see it, but anybody acting with him couldn’t help but see it. So once he realized that I was easy to get to crack up, he did it quite a few times. And after this had happened several times, I remember hearing when I was in the makeup chair somebody talking about it, saying, “Well, maybe he’s just a happy guy.” And the other guy said, “Yeah, but it’s costing a lot of money, because we keep having to repeat takes!” So I got the idea that I should kind of get it together.
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A June 82 newpaper item stated a location shoot in Finland for Victoria Wyndham was planned and then cancelled due to budget issues and 'cast resentment of those who wanted to travel but were left behind'.
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Re The Doctors Robert W Coppes played Rev Joe in 75
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On The Doctors, Dr Edwards (76) was played by Frank Spencer.
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I wonder why RH signed Micheal Hawkins as Frank.By his own admission he had been fired from LIAMST and ATWT and had a breakdown after that.I guess Frank was originally only going to be seen in a few flashbacks and when ABC said they wanted him to live, they took a chance on Hawkins. Didn't history repeat itself and Hawkins erratic behavior cause him to be fired again?
