All My Children - General Discussion

[boes]

5 minutes ago, CanaryFan98 said:

 

How sad.  I remember when Nick Benedict took over the role of Phil Brent.  Richard Hatch had left the role, his character being declared missing, resumed dead in Vietnam.  At first, Nick playing Phil was sort of shocking, the physical difference between him and Richard Hatch being so obvious, but he made that part his own.

Long ago days now.  I'm sorry to hear of his death.

[DanaK]

35 minutes ago, CanaryFan98 said:

 

Very sad

Edited July 18, 2023 by DanaK

[DanaK]

Walt Willey will return to General Hospital playing his AMC Jack Montgomery character later this month for several episodes

https://tvline.com/news/general-hospital-walt-willey-returning-jackson-august-episodes-1235024646/

[DanaK]

Nancy Frangione has died at 70 of undisclosed causes. She played Tara Martin from 1977-1979 and is best known for playing Cecile on Another World

https://deadline.com/2023/08/nancy-frangione-dead-another-world-1235525977/

[boes]

1 hour ago, DanaK said:

Nancy Frangione has died at 70 of undisclosed causes. She played Tara Martin from 1977-1979 and is best known for playing Cecile on Another World

https://deadline.com/2023/08/nancy-frangione-dead-another-world-1235525977/

I loved her as Tara.  I remember she was the Tara the Show brought back for Grandma Kate Martin's funeral in 1985.

[WendyCR72]

Billy Miller, Richie Novak, has died at only 43! Ironically, apparently today, 09/17, would have been his 44th birthday. This is shocking. May he RIP.

 

[giovannif7]

Yet another AMC loss - Peter White, who played lawyer Lincoln Tyler (son of society maven Phoebe and Dr. Charles Tyler) has passed away at age 86.

 

[boes]

I loved Peter White, and I LOVED Kitty and Linc, and later, Kelly and Linc.  He was the perfect man to play son to Phoebe and Charles - the best of all who had been in the role previously - and his romance with Kitty/Kelly was such a touching and adult relationship.  Perfect pairing with those two actors.

Also, he seemed like a good man, all around.

ETA - He was also excellent in the first filmed version of Boys in the Band.

[giovannif7]

AMC loses another alum - Alec Musser, who took over the role of Del Henry from Windsor Harmon in 2005, has passed away at age 50. He landed his AMC contract by winning the reality show I Wanna Be A Soap Star. After leaving the show in 2007, Musser acted in a few other projects including an episode of Desperate Housewives, and went on to become a popular fitness model. No cause of death is noted in the TVLine article.

[DanaK]

On 1/13/2024 at 11:47 PM, giovannif7 said:

AMC loses another alum - Alec Musser, who took over the role of Del Henry from Windsor Harmon in 2005, has passed away at age 50. He landed his AMC contract by winning the reality show I Wanna Be A Soap Star. After leaving the show in 2007, Musser acted in a few other projects including an episode of Desperate Housewives, and went on to become a popular fitness model. No cause of death is noted in the TVLine article.

Sadly Alec died by suicide

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/alec-musser-cause-of-death-suicide-all-my-children-grown-ups-1235874253/

[DanaK]

AMC alum Barbara Rush has died at 97. As some of you may recall, she played Nola Orsini in the 1990s, who thought amnesiac Tad Martin was her long lost son

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/barbara-rush-it-came-from-outer-space-peyton-place-actress-dead-at-97-1235863798/

[boes]

Thanks for posting this.  I loved Barbara Rush in all her films and remember how thrilled I was when she appeared on All My Children.

She had such presence.

[DanaK]

Susan Lucci is joining the cast of an Apple movie

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/susan-lucci-joins-cast-of-jonah-hills-dark-comedy-outcome/

[Tartlet]

Esta Terblanche, who played Gillian Andrassy, passed away on July 19, 2024. She was my favourite character from the late 1990s / early 2000 era.  Sadly, all of the actors of her onscreen family have all now passed away: Eugenia, Dmitry and Edmund.  

[Palimelon]

Sad news indeed. At least Rudolf Marin (who played Dmitry's son Anton) is still alive, even if he and Esta were never on the show at the same time.

[Mckinnonsgirl]

On 5/29/2020 at 7:54 PM, Steph J said:

I genuinely cannot imagine Maria and Trevor together as a romantic couple - and I say that as someone who willingly suspended all disbelief in order to accept that Trevor would fall for Robin Mattson's Janet.

I loved the chemistry between Kiberd and Mattson, and despite Janet's past, Robin played Janet's redemption wonderfully and I loved them as a couple, until the writers first backburned them, and then decided to have Janet lose it again.   

I quit watching after they left.  I preferred Robin's version of Janet over Kate, but I don't deny Kate is a very talented actress too, I just loathed how the writers trashed all the character development that had happened with Janet and threw it away for camp and Janet would never have killed Trevor. 

[Mckinnonsgirl]

On 4/1/2024 at 7:34 AM, boes said:

Thanks for posting this.  I loved Barbara Rush in all her films and remember how thrilled I was when she appeared on All My Children.

She had such presence.

This was so sad when I heard about this, I care give for one of her high school class mates, we watch a lot of Turner Classic Movies', and whenever Barbara pops up in a film, she mentions they went school together in Santa Barbara, and how nice she was . 

[DanaK]

Alexa Havins, who played Babe, has been cast on General Hospital as the new incarnation of Lulu Spencer. The character has been in a coma for several years and looks like she'll be waking up soon

https://daytimeconfidential.com/2024/09/10/breaking-news-all-my-childrens-alexa-havins-cast-as-general-hospitals-lulu-spencer

[DanaK]

TV Line: AMC eyes resurrection as TV-Movie franchise

https://tvline.com/news/all-my-children-tv-movies-lifetime-cast-returning-1235328653/

Interesting

[CanaryFan98]

 

[Irlandesa]

That's weird.  I'm wondering if this is a trial balloon for a more serialized future.