Soap Hoppers --The Soap Actors And Roles Thread

[jam6242]

Lyle Sudrow played Angus MacDonald on Lora Lawton.

 

Karl Weber played Brook Forrester (really) on Romance of Helen Trent in 1941.  Didn't find anything about his 1953 role.

[Paul Raven]

Joan Bennett

Proposed soap Haven House  CBS TV 1954

 

Nelson Omstead

Romance of Helen Trent 1951

 

Ross Martin

Front Page Farrell Chuck Nichols 1951

Road of Life 1952

 

Betty Winkler

Story of Mary Marlin 'Chinese woman' 1939

 

Ann Burr

Big Sister Valerie

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DIANA VAN DER VLIS

 

MODERN ROMANCES   Helen      "Weldon, Inc. "   week of 9/30/1957

TRUE STORY     Unknown Role "First Prize"   12/28/1957

THE EDGE OF NIGHT    Unknown Role   Unknown Year

THE SECRET STORM             Susan Ames Dunbar Carver      (temporary)  1960s

WHERE THE HEART IS          Kate Hathaway Prescott           1969-73

RYAN'S HOPE                          Nell  Carter Beaulec                    1975-76

                                                   Sherry ___ Rowan                      1987-89

 

@DRW50, @Wendy @Paul Raven

 

As I update the profiles here, I update  them on my fb page.  Louise Shaffer had a nice story about DVDV.........

 

Louise Shaffer

Loved her. She played my sister on Heart and she was wonderful. Years later, when I was trying to sell my first book we'd lost touch -- but she read it immediately, took it to her husband Roger -- he was running Little Brown -- and he got me my first agent. The book didn't go anywhere -- neither did the agent --but my second one was published and even though Diana wasn't well at that point, she came to my book party. She was just that kind of person and friend.

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by slick jones

[Wendy]

That is a lovely story, @slick jones! Thanks so much for finding it to share! And for this whole project. You're tireless.

[slick jones]

Awww, thanks @Wendy.  @Paul Raven and @jam6242 (Jane Marsh, Soap Opera Investigations) do a fantastic job finding whatever information I don't already have.  I also have a former soap journalist on the public Facebook page  that helps fill in some of the blanks

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Larry Hugo fixes

 

AS THE WORLD TURNS     John Hughes    1958

 

SEARCH FOR TOMORROW      Rex Twining was not a doctor, but Cornelia's assistant

 

ALL MY CHILDREN     Oswald Tillman   early 1980s

[John]

Request:

Mart Hulswit

[Paul Raven]

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KEVIN DOBSON   

     

THE NURSES       Unknown  Role  1967?

THE DOCTORS        Patrolman Quigley 1969

                      Doctor/Intern/ Anesthesiologist   1970

                                   Orderly  1970-71

KNOTS LANDING   (Marion) M. Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie     1982-93

ONE LIFE TO LIVE      Governor Harrison Brooks      2003-04

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL     Judge Devin Owens     2006-07

DAYS OF OUR LIVES      Mickey Horton            2008

 

 

 

also.....

KOJAK          Detective Bobby Crocker          1973-78;   District Attorney B.C. 1990

SHANNON      Detective Jack Shannon    1981-82

F/X:THE SERIES     Detective Leo     McCarthy    1996-97

HOUSE OF LIES     Mr. Pinkus    2013

TV-MOVIE

KNOTS LANDING:BACK TO THE CUL-DE-SAC    Mack MacKenzie      1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

@John

 

MART HULSWIT

THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES    Bill Dittman     1964

         Dr. Steve Keller    1964

THE GUIDING LIGHT      Dr. William Edward "Ed" Bauer    1969-81

ALL MY CHILDREN   Ralph Purdy   1983

ONE LIFE TO LIVE        Harlan Abbey        1985

SEARCH FOR TOMORROW    Dr. Burke       1986

 

 

DOCTOR KILDARE     Dr. Vincent Brill     1966

SHINING TIME STATION   J. B. King, Esquire   1989-93; 1995 (reunion  movies)

 

 

PILOTS/PROPOSALS

 

THE BEST YEARS      Unknown Role     1965

 

 

 

 

Updates

Edited March 27, 2021 by slick jones

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JOHANNA LEISTER

SEARCH FOR TOMORROW     Unknown Role--3 days    Prior to joining THE EDGE OF NIGHT

 

THE EDGE OF NIGHT        Phoebe Smith (Marceau) Jamison    1972-76

ONE LIFE TO LIVE     Dr. Alexandra Fanning., Jenny Wolek's OB/GYN   1979

 

and...

KENNEDY   Elizabeth Pozen   1983

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KERMIT MURDOCK

 

RADIO

 

MARY NOBLE, BACKSTAGE WIFE Clarence Brewster 1950

FRONT PAGE FARRELL Monty Madison 1946

                                Unknown Role 1949

JUST PLAIN BILL  Unknown Role  1948

KATIE'S DAUGHTER Unknown Role    1947

LORENZO JONES     Clarence F. Muggins

RIGHT TO HAPPINESS  Unknown Role    1957

STELLA DALLAS    Unknown Role  1947

THE WHISPER MAN      Rod Buchanan

WORDS AT WAR

 

TELEVISION

 

THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS       Mortimer Drake     1951?

THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES    Staff Internist      1963

                     Dr. Sanger     1963         

                          Dr. Sanderson    1964

                   Dr. McMann      1965

                          Levitt       1965

ANOTHER WORLD Judge Sutherland (Tom Baxter trial) 1964-65

Judge George Bruch (Missy Matthews trial) 1967

 

THE EDGE OF NIGHT    Judge Nelson R. Ramsey    1965-68

 

THE DEFENDERS       District Attorney    Frank Larkin    1961-63

 

Movie

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS     Dean Pollard     1961

Edited September 7, 2022 by slick jones

[Paul Raven]

Requests

Sam Wanamaker

Marcus Patrick

James Millhollen

Erin O'Brien Moore

[slick jones]

Already double checking on Milhollin, Phillip Pine, and Ralph Dunn.

Have notes w/out dates on Marcus Patrick ready to go.

Will work on O'Brien Moore and Wanamaker next

Since I was in my radio notes for Wanamaker and O'Brien-Moore, I added:

Alan Devitt 

Eddie Mayehoff

Mary Hunter

Joan Alexander

Edward Andrews

Luise Barclay

Butler Manville
Betty Worth

Helen Claire

Doris Dalton

Edited September 9, 2020 by slick jones

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re-do

 

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ELSPETH ERIC

 

RADIO
 

AUNT JENNY'S REAL-LIFE STORIES     Unknown Role

BETTY AND BOB      Jane Hartford   

BIG SISTER     Diane Carvell Ramsey

CENTRAL CITY       Emily Olson

EVER SINCE EVE    Unknown Role    

THE FALCON           Nancy

FRONT PAGE FARRELL         Ella

GRAND CENTRAL STATION (Revival)   Unknown Role    'The Letter' July 56

JOYCE JORDAN, GIRL INTERNE      Joyce Jordan Sherwood

                               Dorie Winters

THE LIVES AND LOVES OF DOCTOR SUSAN    Abby Bradford

LORENZO JONES      Irma Barker

MOMMIE AND THE MEN    Nancy Grant     1945

REAL STORIES FROM REAL LIFE    Unknown Role

THE ROAD OF LIFE      Beth Lambert

                                          Lil Monet

ROSEMARY     Jane Taylor

SECOND HUSBAND    Unknown Role

THE SECOND MRS. BURTON   Lillian Anderson

THIS IS NORA DRAKE     Dorothy Stewart

VALIANT LADY       Eleanor Richards

YOUNG DOCTOR MALONE        Marsha Sutton Mason  

                                         Lucie Standish 

YOUNG WIDDER BROWN     Unknown Role      1954

YOUR FAMILY AND MINE      Mary Peterson     1940

 

TELEVISION    

 

SEARCH FOR TOMORROW        Nurse Smith      1952

THE ROAD OF LIFE          Lil' Monet         1955

FROM THESE ROOTS     Maxine Dallas    Unknown Year

THE EDGE OF NIGHT   Vera ___ Simms   1963

THE SECRET STORM     Mrs. Borman      1968

ANOTHER WORLD      Wedding Attendant     1968

AS THE WORLD TURNS    Mrs. Bradley      1971

 

 

This profile needed a makeover.

Edited March 15, 2022 by slick jones

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[Sean]

 

What a fantastic story! I wish it were possible to see them work together in Where the Heart Is.

 

I loved Diana van der Vlis in both her roles on Ryan's Hope. Along with the Jack/Mary romance, Nell's story was the highlight of the show's first 6 months on-air for me. Her work as Sherry was markedly different but equally fantastic. Sherry was such a delicious force of nature - loved seeing her go up against Ilene Kristen's Delia. In fact, she wasn't that unlike Louise Shaffer's Rae... too bad they didn't overlap at all except for the final episode. (By the way, in terms of dates I think Sherry first appeared in either November or December 1987, right after her politician husband was murdered. DvdV is in one of the December 1987 episodes on YouTube.)