Soap Opera Cast Lists and Character Guides- Cancelled and Current

[slick jones]

THE BENNETTS

JULY 6, 1953- JANUARY 8,1954 NBC

KINGSPORT

Hope Bennett...???????

Nancy _____Bennett...Eloise Kummer TAMC

...Paula Houston

Wayne Bennett...Don Gibson

Blaney Cobb...Jack Lester

Meg Cobb...Beverly Younger

George Konosis...Sam Siegel

Judge Mansfield...???

Helen Meade...??????

Stacy Victor...???

Alma Wells.......Kay Westfall

Bert Wells...???

Ellie Wells...???????

Speedy Winters...Vi Berwick ATTL

 

 

Fern...???

Ralph...????

??????

James Andelin

Jaqueline Berkey        1/54

Dick Cleary                 1/54

Karen Conley                1/54

Jerry Garvey                   1/54

Sam Gray OLTL,ATWT,AW, RH,HF, EON

Jerry Harvey                   

Elsbeth Hoffman                1/54   

Carlton Kendall                   1/54

 

updated 2/26/18

A DATE WITH LIFE

OCTOBER 10,1955-JUNE 29,1956 NBC

BAY CITY

Laura Appleby...????????

Jim Bradley...Logan Field

Tom Bradley...Mark Roberts MS,GH, B&B, Y&R     3/56   newspaper editor

Laurie Dayton...Barbara Britton

Ann Marlin ...   Barbara O'Neill        11/55       

David...+Jennifer...Dean Harens GH

Jennifer...teacher...+David...June Dayton Y&R,PB,DOOL,TBD

Bride...Pat Sully ATTL

Housewife writer      Ann Loring    3/56          LOL

?????...Anthony Eisley... CAP, KL

???/...Bernard Grant   3 weeks   10/55

?????...Don Hastings... CV, ATWT,EON,OPW

?????...Irene Hubbard

?????...Georgeann Johnson. COLBYS, SOM,AW, ATWT, AMC

?????...William Redfield... KF, ATWT

?????...Dolores Sutton... FTR, VL

Edited February 26, 2018 by slick jones

[slick jones]

MODERN ROMANCES

OCTOBER 4, 1954-SEPTEMBER 19, 1958   NBC

LOCATION UNKNOWN

 

Tad Denton...Sam Gray...      10/29/57    HF, RH, BENNETTS, EON,AW, ATWT, OLTL

Laura Farrell...Augusta Dabney       10/29/57       AW,ATWT,AWA,YDM, GL, GH,TD,OLTL, LOV, LIAMST

Rocky King...Roscoe Karns(Karnes)   2/56

Bill Talbot...Lin McCarthy    1/13-1/17 1958

 

Clara...Ketherine Meskill...1/13-1/17 1958         TD,EON,LOL,SFT, GL, WTHI, FHY

Julia...Hildy Parks...1/13-1/17  1958                 LOL

Robby...Dickie Olsen...10/29/57

Vernon...Lee Henry   1/13-1/17  1958

 

Hostess...Ilka Chase     6/2/58

Husband...Lew Parker  10/57

"Moralizer"... Gypsy Rose Lee     5/58

Schoolteacher involved with student...Audra Lindley   2/55     AW, SFT,EON, FTR

Student...Jeff Harris   2/55        EON

Wife...Betty Kean    10/57

???????????????????????

Betty Sue Albert   3/57                                                   EON

Millette Alexander          EON,ATWT,FTR,OPW, TD

Leslie Barrett...   9/26/57                                           DS,AW,EON

Diana Barrymore                    12/55

Patricia Bosworth   7/56                                             EON,CMM, YDM

Don Briggs    week of 3/4/57                        SFT,CVVR

Sallie Brophy    week of 1/21/57              DHSJ,FYH, VIY

Fran Carlon...   week of 8/15/56                                  ATWT, HAMPTONS

John Cassavetes     "Mountain Love"     7/55

Ronald Dawson          9/23/56                                      EON, DS,?AMC

June Dayton            DOOL, Y&R, TBD,PB,ADWL

Pamela Fitzmaurice...   week of 12/17/56

Anne Flood           AMC, AW, ATWT, EON, FTR, OLTL, SFT

Connie Francis   week of 11/15/55,    May 1956          performed "Forgetting"

Marjorie Gateson    OMF, SS

Stuart Germain...  week of 4/2/56                            EON,SOM, OLTL

Daryl Grimes       week of 8/20/56

Neil Hamilton       week of 4/1/57

Dean Harens        GH, TBD, DWL, GW, PP

Signe Hasso   week of 3/7/56

Don Hastings       ATWT, EON, DWL, CVVR, OPW

Phyllis Hill         GH, MS

Betty Johnson  week of 10/22                    performed "I Dreamed"

Georgeann Johnson    ATWT, KL, AMC, SOM, AW, SIS, DAL, COLBYS, CVVR, TD

Barbara Joyce   6/57                                           EON,SS

John Kellogg   PP

Phyllis Love       "Mountain Love"    7/55

Jim Lowe       "Talking to the Blues" April 22. 1957         performed "Four Walls"

Robert Mandan    GH,DOOL, SANTA, SOAP, FTR,EON,SFT, TD, SIS

Joe Mantell     week of 2/8/56

Ross Martin     CMM, SFT

Lin McCarthy...57      episode titled Honeymood

James Millhollen      week of 4/9/56

Meg Mundy...        AMC, TD, GL, LOV, WotW

Kathleen Murray     TD, KF, YDM

Margaret Phillips    week of 10/22    "Benefit Performance"

William Prince     week of 3/4/57       AW, WotW, ATWT, EON, DAL, GL, YDM, AWA, SFT, PD, DYN

Marian Russell  week of 8/17/55                    FC

"Buffalo" Bob Smith...

Jimsey Somers

Fran Spanier  week of 3/14/56                        DOOL

Paul Stevens    AW, TEX, Y&R, TN, LIAMST

Gene Sultan   week of 5/30/56

Lawrence Weber    TD, TBD, EON, GL, LOL, SFT, SS, TEX, VL

Mary K. Wells         EON, ATWT, TBD, GG, LOL, RTPP, SS

 

NARRATORS:

Mel Brandt...     TD, FH

Martha Scott        GH, DAL, SOMH

TEMP NARRATORS WHILE MS. SCOTT FILMED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS APRIL/ MAY 1955:

Jayne Meadows (Allen)                        B&B, TEX, SIS

Madge Evans

Dorothy Hart

Margaret Hayes    FITW 

Kathy Norris                         ALSO 3 weeks in October 56

Margaret Truman

 

Episode Titles with Ross Martin:

The House Guests....5/6/55

Miss M.D.   7/13/56

The Transfusion    9/28/56

No Vacancy     12/7/56

The Misguided Man   7/19/57

 Modern Romances was a Soap/Anthology hybrid, most stories lasted a week

@Paul Raven   I added Bobby Readick to the updated LOL on page 38.

 

[Paul Raven]

Re Modern Romances

The May 14-18th 1956 story was a modern day update of Shakespeare's  McBeth. Anne Howard Bailey was the writer.

Ross Martin as Macbeth; Valerie Bettis as Lady Macbeth; Ralph Bunker as Duncan; Boris Aplon as Malcolm; Ed Peck as MacDuff and Connie Francis as ballad singer.

Edited February 26, 2018 by Paul Raven

[slick jones]

THE DOCTORS

 

Dr. Colby         William Bogert        Tom Barrett's oncologist   11/75 ATWT, AW, OLTL, LOL, etc

 

[Paul Raven]

A 1971 obituary of actor Eugene Wood in NY Times mentions he appeared in Love of Life.

[slick jones]

I have him on Edge of Night as well. He was Willard Benner in 1957, a prisoner/gunsmith.

[slick jones]

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DOCTORS

 

Fred Winston   Kevin O'Connor    74-75

Sarah   (dated Hank)    Yahee Fernandes    (Edge of Night)    75

Bernice Shaw   (patient, Althea)   Pat Disdrow    75

Wendy Conrad (Fanny Speiss)  1975 -   (I didn't have a date in the TD cast, wasnt sure which actress was first.

 

 

LOVE OF LIFE

 

Michelle       Eileen Gordon      1976

temp Betsy Lang     Marcia McClain  was 1975

???    Eugene Wood

 

 

SEARCH FOR TOMORROW

Carlos Delgado   1975   ???   PI hired by Scott Phillips to find Erik's father

Edited March 24, 2018 by slick jones

[slick jones]

Our own @jam6242 found an article that states that Director Paul Lammers gave his father a non-speaking role, Dr. Slocum, on 6/20/1963.   Thanks, Jam!

[danfling]

I have been interested in substitute performers in roles for many years. I will share a list that I have (mainly from my own memory) later. My question is about an episode of As the World Turns around 1964 or 1965. Two sublstitute actresses played Penny and Ellen. The actress who played Penny may have been Abigail Kellogg, but I am not sure. I have no idea who played Ellen in the episode. Do you have any information on that?

[slick jones]

I'm not sure, but I'll check. 

 

 @danflingGregory Rozakis was also on ATWT as Dr. Niarchos. He was Lou on OLTL and Sacha on AMC.

[slick jones]

LOVE OF LIFE

Liz Conroy         Jacqueline Brooks  1962      SS, AW, AMC,ATWT, RH, GL, FITW, OLTL

[slick jones]

THE DOCTORS

 

Cora Belden     Sylvia Sidney            week of October 21, 1963      RH

[Paul Raven]

The Seeking Heart 

Add Bartlett Robinson

[Paul Raven]

Re Way of the World

Gloria Lewis,as Linda Porter was hostess of dramatized stories ranging from 6 to 15 episodes.

Not quite sure why there was a fictional hostess? 

14th 25 th Jan 1955

Cast 

Jerome Courtland, Helen Auerbach, Santos Ortega, Jack Orrison, John Craven

 

Modern Romances Week of Dec 31 1954 'The Hunted'

Cast 

Sandra Deel, Loretta Daye, Robert Webber, Lin McCarthy, Jay Barney

 

Jan 7 1955 'The Matriach'

Cast

Ed Peck, Peter Fernandez, Muriel Kirkland, Viola Roache, Lois Smith

 

Jan 14 1955 'One and Two Make Trouble'

Cast

Audra Linley, Walter Brooke, Celia Lipton, Logan Field

 

Edited April 17, 2018 by Paul Raven

[Khan]

 

But three's company!

 

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