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Soap Hoppers: The Soap Actors And Roles Thread

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THE GUIDING LIGHT  Unknown Role Karen  pre-1972

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    LYDIA BRUCE      Born Lydia Slubowski   1/8/1931 - 5/7/2008 RADIO UNKNOWN ROLES THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS THE ROMANCE OF HELEN TRENT FIVE STAR MATINEE 'The Girl We Left Behind' X-MINUS ONE    "The Defend

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On 5/21/2018 at 6:20 PM, slick jones said:

CATHERINE MARY STEWART   

 

DAYS OF OUR LIVES    Nurse Kayla Brady     1982-83

HOTEL     Lynn Valli     1985

GUIDING LIGHT    Naomi       2002

ONE LIFE TO LIVE    Mother    Unknown Year

 

I see that you have a credit for Finola Hughes in the bizarre 1980 musical The Apple, but did you know that Catherine Mary Stewart played the lead role of Bibi?

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9 minutes ago, Xanthe said:

I see that you have a credit for Finola Hughes in the bizarre 1980 musical The Apple, but did you know that Catherine Mary Stewart played the lead role of Bibi?

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I did not. I'll be updating her soon. Thanks!

15 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@slick jones You probably have more than enough Dr. Clader content but if not the start of this has him in a "previously on"

ABC Daytime WOC November 2001 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

(I had forgotten about the stupid and pointless story with Liza and Ryan having a fling ending in a miscarriage)

Thanks. I sent him the link.

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Johanna Leister      pg. 157

LOVING Dr. __ Kline 1984

John Carpenter   pg. 94 

LOVING Marshall (?Haddon) Henderson 1984

Lisa Richards   pg.183

THE GUIDING LIGHT  Karen   pre-1972

Tom Sminkey     pg. 12

ONE LIFE TO LIVE      Reporter Dean Stella      1984 - 87

A. C. Weary    pg.   36

ONE LIFE TO LIVE Stunt Coordinator 1987

Chad Duell  pg. 434

 SINGLE -- IF YOU NEED ME 2026

Jordi Vilasuso     pg.  462

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THEY TOOK MY DAUGHTER     Xavier    2026 (Made for T. V.)

Kendrick Cross  pg. 351

GENERAL HOSPITAL   Detective Calvin Bennett   January 2023 - March 2023; July 2023; January 2024; April 2024 - June 2024; September 2024; June 25, 2026 - 

Richard Eastham    pg. 99

THE SURVIVORS Anthony Matheson III 1969

Diana Muldaur    pg. 115

THE SURVIVORS     Belle  Wheeler     1969-70

Lesley Vogel    pg. 370

LOVING       Edith "Edy" Lester Donovan   December 1983 - 85

James Farentino   pg. 181

THE DOCTORS Eliot Cooke "Oh, Love is Fair" 5/15/1963

Frank Campanella    pg. 114

THE DOCTORS Joe Thompson "The Witness" week of 9/9/1963

Kathleen Murray       pg.89

THE DOCTORS Martha _____ Thompson "The Witness" week of 9/9/1963

Carl Low     pg. 3

THE DOCTORS Detective Sergeant Jim Grant "The Witness" week of 9/9/1963 

Roy Poole pg. 3

THE DOCTORS     Oscar  Kylie "The Ox Lowers the Axe"  4/16/63

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TOM LIGON

            9/10/1940 - 6/29/2026

A WORLD APART                  T.D. Drinkard   1969-71

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS   Lucas Prentiss   1978-82

LOVING               Coach Billy Bristow             1983-84

ONE LIFE TO LIVE             Carl, Dorian's accountant    Unknown Year

DALLAS                    Unknown Role                  1987

SANTA BARBARA     William Addison              1987

ANOTHER WORLD      Dr.Ted Briar         1990

ALL MY CHILDREN        Dr. Snow          1994

ANOTHER WORLD        Bailey Thompson           1995

                  Bus Station Ticket Clerk   1998

AS THE WORLD TURNS   Emmett, Molly's Date   1997

ALL MY CHILDREN   Reverend Fred Lomax   2004

and

AMERICAN HERITAGE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION II-- THE IMPOSSIBLE WAR    Harrison    1972   (Special)

HOLLYWOOD SQUARES   (DAYTIME)     1979

OZ        # 014208    Alvin Yood    2001 - 03

THE HEART, SHE HOLLER      Bartender    2011 - 13

PodCasts:

SONGONAUTS      Buzzkill   2017

THE TRUTH    Various   2012 - 22

movies

NOTHING BUT A MAN     Teenager   1964

PAINT YOUR WAGON      Horton Fenty      1969

JUMP      Chester Jump     1971

THE LAST AMERICAN HERO     Lamar    1973

BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY     Piney    1973

THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK      Childs    1974

THE WIDE WORLD OF MYSTERY  "The Black Box Murders"   1975    (Made for T. V.)

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IN HOLLYWOOD     Alan Campbell   1975     (Made for T. V.)

JUDGE HORTON AND THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS    Leslie Carter   1976    (Made for T. V.)

JOYRIDE     Sanders     1977

YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE     Soap Cameos    1982

THE DEMON MURDER CASE     Philip Russo   1983     (Made for T. V.)

CUTTING CLASS    Mr. Ingalls       1989

I BELIEVE IN AMERICA    Oliver    2007

SERIAL CHEF     Joseph Spataford       2007

LOST REVOLUTION     Oliver    2011

FRONT COVER     Gus LaMar    2015

BROADWAY

HAVE I GOT A GIRL FOR YOU!     12/2/1963       Steve Kozick

ANGELA   10/30/1969 - 11/1/1969    Jeff Dolan

LOVE IS A TIME OF DAY    12/22/1969 - 12/27/1969     Skipper Allen

TARTUFFE    5/30/1996 - 6/23/1996      Understudy  --  Orgon;    Visitor

THEATER

BILLY BUDD     Billy Budd    1965       The Arena Theatre

YOUR OWN THING   1968      Orson     Orpheum Theater

THE 39TH WITNESS        1968     Goldman       The N. E. T. Playhouse

GOD SAYS THERE IS NO PETER OTT   1972     Peter Ott      McAlpin Rooftop Theatre

GENIUSES   1982    Eugene Winter  -- Replacement    Playwrights Horizons  

CAROUSEL     1985 - 86   Paper Mill Playhouse   

ANOTHER PARADISE   1986          Players Theater

 A BACKER'S AUDITION    1992    Roger Freed     American Jewish Theatre

BREAKING LEGS      1993        Cape Playhouse      Dennis Massachusetts

YOU NEVER KNOW       January - February   1996      Paper Mill Playhouse

BAFO   (BEST AND FINAL OFFER)     1998       Clay    American Place Theater

EVELYN AND THE POLKA KING   Hank Czerniak " The Polka King"      The Actors Theatre of Louisville

THE RAINMAKER     H. C. Curry       Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO       Tiger       The Lark Theatre, New York City

CAMINO REAL     Kilroy

REQUIEM FOR WILLIAM

HARD TRAVELIN'        The Arena Stage          

DEN OF THIEVES    

THE GOLF BALL

ALL THE WAY HOME          Connelly Theatre   New York City

THE AUDIENCE                     Connelly Theatre   New York City

OUR TOWN    George Gibbs

Marriage:

     K. C. Ligon    12/31/1976 - 3/23/2009   (Her Death)

 

 

From The New York Times   (Paywall)

 

He Used to Be on Police Dramas, Then He Met a Bad Guy in Real Life

 

By Michael Wilson

  • Aug. 16, 2013

A 72-year-old man stretched his tall, thick, worn self onto the little bed in his Greenwich Village apartment for an afternoon nap. It was Aug. 1, hot outside.

He was awakened by a noise. In the next room, a window to the street was open for the breeze, and through it, a stranger was climbing into his home.

The intruder filled the man in bed not with fear, but fury. How dare he?

The man in bed was Tom Ligon, who was born in New Orleans and then made his way to New York in the early 1960s to try to act for a living. He fell in with a kindred spirit named Sam Waterston, and the two shared a $25-a-month sublet until they lost that, and Mr. Waterston found this spot on a quiet block of the Village.

One night, the two went to a party, and by the end, the way Mr. Ligon remembers it, Mr. Waterston was mooning over a young lady. He moved out and married her. And Mr. Ligon stayed put.

 

 

(Mr. Waterston went on to great success, and the two remained friends. “He says, ‘You married me off to get the apartment,’” Mr. Ligon said.)

In 1969, Mr. Ligon landed a role in the film “Paint Your Wagon.”

Around the same time, a friend visiting the apartment brought along a young lady, and now it was Mr. Ligon’s turn to moon. She was an actress and dialect coach named Katharine Dunfee Clarke.

“We were a special pair,” Mr. Ligon said. They married and lived on and off in California pursuing roles, but they never gave up the apartment. “I closed it up,” he said.

 

He was handsome and muscular. He ate raw food and practiced yoga and meditation. Fans of 1970s police shows have Mr. Ligon’s face stamped in unconscious corners of their minds.

 

 

He played bit parts in “Baretta” and “Police Woman.” In an episode of “Starsky and Hutch,” he played a character listed in the credits as Young Man, a mumbling, brainwashed prisoner in a castle. He

 played Cadet Ted Miller in an episode of “Charlie’s Angels.”

 

In 1978, Mr. Ligon stepped into the role for which he is widely remembered to viewers, mostly women, of a certain age:   Lucas Lorenzo Prentiss on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” He was game for anything the show threw at him. (“Lucas discovered ‘Priscilla’ as a stowaway on the jet,” an online fan site wrote in a description of his character.) He spent more than four years on the show, until 1982. (“Lucas left town for parts unknown.”)

In the Village, he remained accustomed to shouts of “Lucas!” In 1989, he acted in “Cutting Class,” playing a father. His son was played by an unknown, Brad Pitt. Mr. Ligon told his wife, “He’s going to be a big star.”

He had a recurring role as a prisoner in “Oz” on HBO, and there  were several appearances on various “Law and Order” properties.

He also visited his wife’s dialect and voice classes at the Circle in the Square Theater School.

His wife was blunt. She was said to have told James Gandolfini, cast in a stage production of “On the Waterfront,” that he wasn’t having a dialect problem, but an acting problem.  

In 2009, she died of a blood disorder. She was 60 and terribly ill, spending her painful final weeks at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan.

Mr. Ligon came home around the corner to an empty apartment.

“It’s the first time I’ve lived alone,” he said.

He drank heavily. His solid frame softened and he grew a pot belly.

St. Vincent’s closed. “I’m glad it’s gone,” he said. Bad memories.

It has been four years. This is the man who was napping Aug. 1.

“Who comes through the window?” he said later. “Maybe one friend back in the ’70s, back when we were smoking a lot of dope.”

He leapt up from bed. “You don’t think, ‘Oh, I can’t move like that,’ ” he said. “I did this purely on reflexes. I take 10 minutes to get out of bed in the morning.”

 

Mr. Ligon yelled “my Japanese yell — ‘Hi-YA!’” he said. “I hit him in the top of the head with my fist.” The intruder fell to the sidewalk and ran away, losing a sneaker in his escape. The police took it for evidence. He remains at large.

At least his wife was not there. “She would have killed him,” he said.

 https://deadline.com/2026/06/tom-ligon-dead-actor-1236970726/

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