Jump to content

Actors who followed a writer/EP from show to show


Recommended Posts

  • Members

Agree, and I’m not surprised.  Someone was showing an interest in his character after a long stretch of being trapped in the same cycle of stories or no story.  Of course he liked what Pratt was doing.

Colleen Zenk on ATWT being a prime example- when Marland made her character go after Tom, she didn’t really agree with it.  Cut to a decade plus after, and she loves Hogan for making Barbara a psychopath.  A decade where she was not featured as prominently as she should have been, and now she was one of his main engines of story.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 67
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Members

Not sure if this was mentioned but Marla Adams seemed to be cast on whatever show Sally Sussman was writing. She came on as Dina when Sussman was part of the Y&R writing team and I think came to Generations and later Days, during her stint there.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

In the early days of One Life to Live Agnes Nixon used several actors that she had written for on Guiding Light and Another World.

Anthony Ponzini Danny AW, Vinny OLTL

Bernard Grant Paul Fletcher GL, Steve Burke OLTL

Joe Gallison Bill Matthews AW Tom Edwards OLTL

Ernest Graves Alex Bowden GL Victor Lord OLTL

Doris Belack Madge Murray AW Anna Wolek OLTL

Patricia Roe Sara McIntyre GL Eileen Riley OLTL

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Who would she have played..Margo?  If only Deas had truly been an FOJ and followed her right off of GL!

Not only roasted, but can you imagine if that happened now and the lawsuit which would ensue..especially with her being so bold and proud about firing a man who was ill?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

LOL they did indeed. I mean some of the cast went out to bigger and better things (Keri Russell and Charisma Carpenter for one) you think they would have put it in a better time slot. But instead NBC put it in JAG’s old slot after they cancelled it and moved it off to CBS. Yikes.

Randy Spelling was on it of course. Greg Vaughan later did another Spelling show with his really crappy forgettable role as Dan on Charmed during its second season. Double yikes.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • It's such a delicious set of circumstances that I'm actually a little surprised that I can't think of ones that exactly match. I've just got a couple of close but no cigars (the reveal wasn't public, like when Alexis told Dominique at her and Garrett's engagement party that Garrett lied about being married; or the revealer didn't come up with the idea of the party). Maybe I need to think some more about it.
    • Not too shabby, making her mark in only six episodes. There's a project for the soap historians -- characters with the least episodes/most impact.
    • Which could make sense , except that we have seen Mariah function for years w/o any real residue pain from her upbringing. Josh decides to randomly make it a thing, when a good writer might foreshadow that for months. It's not like he's just arrived at the show. He's been there for years . Everything seems to be thought out only a few weeks ahead. It's like Phyllis all freaky from being kidnapped when she has done a million other things that didn't seem to bother her at all.
    • Unrelated, sort of, but he looks absolutely nothing like Amanda Setton or Dominic Zamprogna so it's kind of hilarious they decided to make Gio their kid.  It's very clear this was not the original origin story for Gio when they cast him. He is a very handsome guy though. 
    • I tend to agree, although going back to OLTL, Frank has so often cast guys who are meant to be attractive yet come across as cold and dead, I'm surprised he managed to get one who has a bit of a pulse.
    • For all I care, the boy can parade around in a g-string.  It won't make this show suck any less.
    • AMC was about a decade later so things may have changed by then, although maybe they never approached her anyway. She joined Santa Barbara in 1985, when they didn't seem interested in bringing back Hope. SB ended in late 1992, so JFP could have asked her back, but I doubt she did. For as much as JFP clearly had some use for Rick Hearst given that she hired him on GH and kept him around as often as she could, I don't think she ever used Alan-Michael well. I can't see Elvera as Delia, but she could have worked well as Faith - she had a glimpse of a strong personality alongside warmth, which only one Faith ever managed (Catherine Hicks).
    • IIRC, FC reruns aired for awhile on Lifetime, way before the network became the Women in Peril Channel, lol.
    • PAM!! YES!!! You have jogged my memory. She worked at Cedars. She's mentioned in a write-up of Tim's history in the show. It says she was a nurse, but I seem to remember she was a secretary at Cedars, working for either Ed or Sarah. (It's almost 50 years ago, so I definitely could be wrong). I'm certain she was an unwed mother. I recall reading an interview with the actress, Maureen Silliman (I looked it up, that's her correct name, LOL). She started on the show just before the Dobsons started writing it. She was shocked to get a script that said her character had been pregnant since she hit town. I remember a scene where she told Tim she was going to leave SF for a better job for her daughter's sake (really, I think she was upset he was serious about Rita). I don't remember them getting married and leaving town, but according to "Who's Who in Springfield" that's how the characters were written out. Mattson did All My Children for several years, so she might have been persuadable. Here's an interesting factoid I recently learned on these message boards: Elvera Roussel was in the running to play Delia on RH when the show first hit the air. How wild is it that Mattson played Delia for a while? (Though from what I saw of her performance, she was miscast). It's hard to know if Roussel would have been a good Delia. You'd think she would have been better suited to playing Faith Coleridge, but who knows? She didn't get to show a whole lot of range as Hope.
    • If I were to do an EON reboot, I think I would start at the beginning, with Mike Karr leaving the police force in order to begin a new career as an attorney, and dealing with his wife, Sara's, crooked family.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy