Actors who followed a writer/EP from show to show

[titan1978]

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.

[Faulkner]

It feels a bit like cheating because Agnes Nixon had so many shows, but she wrote Gillian Spencer into three of her series—GL (as Robin), OLTL (as Viki), and AMC (as Daisy).

[amybrickwallace]

Plus, she also became a writer on Agnes' shows.

[YRfan23]

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.

[Liberty City]

I don't think Diane was the wrong role, honestly... the writing just wasn't there, because Maria Arena didn't want her there.

[Paul Raven]

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

 

[Mitch]

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?

[amybrickwallace]

Especially the ALS community, families, caregivers...

[Faulkner]

Susan Ward, who’d been on Aaron Spelling’s Malibu Shores, joined Spelling’s Sunset Beach as Meg. (Aaron’s son Randy, of course, was on both series as well.) Carol Potter (Joan) had been on BH90210 as Brenda and Brandon’s mom.

 

[amybrickwallace]

On the same show, Margarita Cordova (Carmen) had previously worked at the other SB with Pratt/Guza/Bennett (who wrote for both shows).

[Faulkner]

Lots of intersections there…

[amybrickwallace]

Definitely, especially with behind the scenes people.

[soapfan770]

I forgot about Susan Ward on Malibu Shores. That was like the early version of Sunset Beach except for teens, and for whatever reason aired on Saturday nights on NBC when no young people were home lol. 

[amybrickwallace]

8 PM on Saturday nights, I believe. They definitely missed their target demographic.

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[soapfan770]

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.