Like many, I'm hooked on the SoapNet re-runs of this canceled soap. At its peak, it was perhaps that most realistic and gritty American soap to be produced. It had an exceptional core cast, add to that the fantastic writing from Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer during its golden years and you have a gem.

So, any other RH fans out there?

not quite. while their names are similar, gina belafonte is an actor (and the daughter of harry belafonte. 

ginia bellafante is a journalist and critic at the ny times (and time magazine before that).

The writer of Ithat article, Gina Belafonte, played Polly on All My Children.

 

 

 

I stand corrected.   My eyesight is getting very bad.

 

Thanks for sharing the link to the article. RIP Mary Ryan Munisteri.

Andrew Robinson & Nana Visitor, aka Frank #2 and Nancy Feldman #3.

Edited March 12, 20223 yr by applcin

4 hours ago, applcin said:

Andrew Robinson & Nana Visitor, aka Frank #2 and Nancy Feldman #3.

I know them only as Garek and Kira on Deep Space Nine. I didn't know they were on Ryan's Hope!

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

I know them only as Garek and Kira on Deep Space Nine. I didn't know they were on Ryan's Hope!

Here are a couple of blasts from the past! 😁 Andrew, in particular, was a familiar face in tv and movies before and after RH. The story supposedly is that RH let him go after 2 years because they feared the audience identified him too strongly with his "Dirty Harry" film role. But he appeared in a lot of tv shows in the 70s and 80s. And he also played Liberace in a tv biopic.
Nana was pretty young, around 20, and it was one of her earliest tv roles.

       
 

Edited March 13, 20223 yr by applcin

28 minutes ago, applcin said:

       
 

Oh!  I do remember this face of Frank Ryan, but I didn't pay much attention to actor names back in the 1970s. 

Garek was such a completely different character!

The only Ryan's Hope actor I paid attention to follow as an actor was Kate Mulgrew.  I was stoked to see Mary Ryan as Janeway.

Edited March 13, 20223 yr by janea4old

2 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Oh!  I do remember this face of Frank Ryan, but I did pay much attention to actor names back in the 1970s. 

Garak and Captain Janeway as siblings, lol. 😁

And now I want to request Trek people for soap hoppers, well thanks I think.

8 minutes ago, ~bl~ said:

And now I want to request Trek people for soap hoppers, well thanks I think.

Actors who appear on soaps *and* in Star Trek series/movies should probably be its own thread, LOL.  If there isn't already one? I tried the search function but couldn't find one.

@slick jones do you know if there is such a thread?

That's one I haven't seen. 🙃  I won't say I haven't considered it,  or including Star Trek roles under three episodes, but then I remember to sleep 🤣.

 

12 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Actors who appear on soaps *and* in Star Trek series/movies should probably be its own thread, LOL.  If there isn't already one? I tried the search function but couldn't find one.

@slick jones do you know if there is such a thread?

 

1 minute ago, slick jones said:

but then I remember to sleep 🤣.

LOL, I have wondered when you sleep!

1 hour ago, ~bl~ said:

And now I want to request Trek people for soap hoppers, well thanks I think.

I'm game. Heck, whenever I watch an old movie or tv show and see a familiar character actor, I'll often say "he was on Star Trek" or "she was on a soap"...sometimes both. Those are my biggest frames of reference, lol.

@janea4old I know between DS9 and RH, there was also Casey Biggs (Damar) and James Sloyan (Dr. Mora, Odo's Bajoran "father"). 

 

Edited March 14, 20223 yr by applcin

The simplest way to do this is to go Memory Alpha
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main

It has every episode of every Trek series including the animated ones, and every Trek movie.  The cast are listed at bottom of each episode with links to their IMDBs.

You could start with the main cast and frequent recurring cast of each show.  (Too many guest cast -  but they could be added much later on.)

Daniel Hugh Kelly (Frank Ryan #3) appeared in “Star Trek: Insurrection”, the third TNG movie.