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Rick Bauer (Guiding Light)
This is a list of characters who have appeared on the soap opera ''Guiding Light''. A Sunny Adelman : Fay Wolf (2000) Gus Aitoro (deceased) : Ricky Paull Goldin (2001–2008) Brad Andrews :Brendan Wentworth (1997–1998) Leslie Ann Andrews :Carolyn Ann Clark (1981–1984) Warren Andrews :Warren Burton (1983–1987) Eleni Andros :see Eleni Andros Cooper Eden August :Teresa Hill (2002–2003) :Deborah Zoe (2003–2004) Madame Ava :Marian Seldes (1998) Brad Andrews Brendan Wentworth (1997-1998) :Jack Armstrong (1985) B Clarence Bailey :Philip Bosco (1979) :Larry Weber (1982) ::District Attorney. Diane Ballard (deceased) : Sofia Landon Geier (1977–1981) Eddie Banks :Robert Leeshock (1998) Bruce Banning : Les Damon (1952; 1956–1960) Susan Bates Spaulding :Nancy Bell (1995–1996) Bertha "Bert" Bauer (deceased) :Ann Shepard (1949–1950) :Charita Bauer (1950–1984) Bill Bauer (deceased) :Lyle Sudrow (1952–1959) :Ed Bryce (1959–1963; 1965–1969; 1977–1978; 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Wagner
Helen Losee Wagner (September 3, 1918 – May 1, 2010) was an American actress.HEVESI, DENNIS (May 3, 2010). "Helen Wagner, Longtime Actress on 'As the World Turns,' Dies at 91". ''New York Times''. Retrieved August 13, 2014. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she is best known for her role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera ''As the World Turns''. After appearing in the soap opera for some 50 years, at the time of her death she was the longest serving actor on an American soap opera. She played the role of Trudy Bauer during the initial TV years of ''Guiding Light'' in the early 1950s. She appeared on the early soap '' Valiant Lady'', as well as on primetime programs including '' The World of Mr. Sweeney'', ''Mister Peepers'', '' Inner Sanctum'', and the ''Philco- Goodyear Playhouse''. Biography Helen Losee Wagner was born on September 3, 1918, in Lubbock, Texas, one of two daughters of Charles and Janette (née Tinker) Wagner. She studied music and drama at Monmouth Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Budig
Rebecca Budig (; born June 26, 1973) is an American actress and television presenter. Her career began in 1993, and in 1995, she was cast in the role of Michelle Bauer on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light''. In 1999, she was cast as Greenlee Smythe on the ABC soap opera ''All My Children''; she held the role off-and-on until the network series finale in 2011. In 2015, she was cast in the role of Hayden Barnes on ''General Hospital''. In 2019, Budig was cast on ''L.A.'s Finest'', as Carlene Hart, a drug-trafficking soccer mom. In August 2024, Budig began playing the contract role of Dr. Taylor Hayes on the CBS soap ''The Bold and the Beautiful''. Early life and career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, Budig was the youngest of three siblings and five half-siblings, as each of her parents had children by a previous marriage. At approximately 9 years of age, she returned to Cincinnati to attend the School for Creative and Performing Arts, which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Miner
Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in Woody Allen's ''Alice'' (1990), and came to prominence with her portrayal of Michelle Bauer on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light'' (1990–1995). Her other film credits include '' Bully'' (2001), '' Haven'' (2004), '' The Black Dahlia'', ''Penny Dreadful'' (both 2006), and '' In Their Skin'' (2012). Outside film, Miner is known for her recurring portrayals of Dani on Showtime's ''Californication'' (2007–2008), Dawn Trager on FX's ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2011–2012), and Meg on The WB's ''Supernatural'' (2009–2020). Background Miner is the daughter of director and producer Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director-producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller. She attended New York's Professional Children's School. In a 1993 interview, Miner named Jodie Foster as the actress she most admired, and expressed the hope that she might have the opportunity to tackle a similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stuart (actress)
Mary Stuart (born Mary Stuart Houchins; July 4, 1926 – February 28, 2002) was an American actress, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. A former silver screen starlet, she was best known for her starring role as Joanne on the CBS/ NBC soap opera ''Search for Tomorrow'', which she played for 35 years without interruption (1951–86). After her divorce from her first husband, with whom she raised two children, she began a side career as a guitarist and a singer-songwriter, first singing on ''Search for Tomorrow'' and then releasing her own album in 1973. At the time of her death, she had played the role of Meta Bauer on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light'' for six years. For her work in daytime drama, she was given the Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy. Early years Stuart was born Mary Stuart Houchins in Miami, Florida, on July 4, 1926, to Guy M. and Mary (née Stuart) Houchins. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Stuart started performing in her youth, and at the age of 9 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Demming
Ellen Demming (born Betty Ellen Weber; November 10, 1922 – February 7, 2002) was an American actress, best known for her role as Meta Bauer on the soap opera ''Guiding Light'', which she played from 1953 to 1974. Life A Schenectady, New York-born graduate of Stephens College, Demming also acted in off-Broadway and summer stock theatrical productions. She played Mary in ''Family Portrait''. Brooks Atkinson deemed her performance, as the Virgin Mary, as full of "...pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling." After her retirement from ''The Guiding Light'', she moved to South Salem, New York, and later, to Vermont. Personal life She was married to television producer Hal Thompson. She died in 2002, aged 79, in Springfield, Vermont Springfield is a New England town, town in Windsor County, Vermont, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 9,062. History The land currently recognized as Springfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Lovett
Dorothy Lovett (February 16, 1915 – April 28, 1998) was an American film actress. Biography Early and personal life Lovett was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She married director Jack Hively (1910-1995) on December 25, 1941, while he was in the Air Force. Hively worked for RKO studios for a period. Lovett graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University with a major in sociology and a minor in psychology. Film career Lovett's best-known recurring role is that of Judy Price in '' Meet Dr. Christian'' (1939), '' Remedy for Riches'' (1940), ''The Courageous Dr. Christian'' (1940), ''Dr. Christian Meets the Women'' (1940) and '' They Meet Again'' (1941). She spent almost the whole of her career with RKO studios, debuting in 1939. She was lent to Universal Studios to make '' The Green Hornet Strikes Again'' and retired from professional life in 1943 when her RKO contract expired. Her last film appearance was a small role in 1965's ''A Patch of Blue''. Radio c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Klein
Adelaide Klein (July 8, 1900 – March 18, 1983) was an American actress who performed on radio, television, films, and the stage. She was best known for her dialects as a radio performer. Over the course of her thirty-year career, Klein performed in radio comedies and soap operas, appeared in eight shows on Broadway, four films, and on thirteen television series. Early life Klein was born in New York City on July 8, 1900. While she attended Julia Richman High School, she prepared for a career in business but also was exposed to drama. After graduation, she began working as a secretary. Career Klein began her radio as a singer in the late 1920s. However, demand for her talents with dialect and as a character actress led her to acting full-time by 1933. She performed in a variety of radio programs, including portraying Hilda, the maid in ''We, The Abbotts'', Dragon Lady in ''Terry and the Pirates'', Agatha Meek in ''Meet Mr. Meek'', and a Russian countess in ''The House on Q S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Keane
Teri Louisa Keane (October 24, 1925 – November 17, 2022) was an American actress known for her work in the era of old-time radio. She was reported to have "appeared in more than 100 dramatic roles in radio and television." For a twelve-year period, from Oct 1963 to April 4, 1975, she played Martha Spears Marceau, the wife of police chief Bill Marceau on the CBS-TV daytime drama ''The Edge of Night''. Early years Keane was born in Manhattan. Her father was a newspaperman, at one time an editor of ''The New York Globe'', and her mother was "the leading coloratura" at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, who later became a professor of music at Wittenberg College. She attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan. Keane's acting career began when she was 9 years old. "By the time I was 19," she told a reporter for a story in the November 1954 issue of '' TV-Radio Mirror'', "I had played dramatic roles in five Broadway shows and was already a radio veteran." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Goodwin (actor)
James "Jamie" Goodwin (born July 24, 1961) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Johnny Bauer on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light'' (1986 to 1990) and Kevin Anderson on the NBC soap opera '' Another World'' (1991 to 1993). Early life Goodwin was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He has a brother and four sisters. The family moved five times before settling in Waukomis, Oklahoma. Goodwin grew up working on the family farm, learning to drive a tractor by the time he was eight years old. When he was in high school, he was a charter member of the Future Farmers of America and owned sixty sheep. Goodwin appeared in numerous local plays and he was also a member of a singing group. His father discouraged him from having a theatrical career. After Goodwin's parents divorced when he was fifteen, he felt free to focus on acting. He studied drama at Oklahoma State University, receiving a bachelor of arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan North
Alan North (December 23, 1920 – January 19, 2000) was an American actor. Early life North was born in Bronx, New York, and joined the United States Navy during the Second World War. Career After the war, he became a stage manager and made his Broadway debut in 1955 in '' Plain and Fancy''. His film career included roles in '' Plaza Suite'' (1971), '' Serpico'' (1973), '' The Formula'' (1980), '' Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer'' (1983), '' Thief of Hearts'' (1984), '' Highlander'' (1986), '' Act of Vengeance'' (1986), '' Billy Galvin'' (1986), '' The Fourth Protocol'' (1987), '' Lean on Me'' (1989), '' See No Evil, Hear No Evil'' (1989), '' Glory'' (1989) and '' The Long Kiss Goodnight'' (1996). On television, he played Captain Ed Hocken in the 1982 television series '' Police Squad!''. He also appeared on the soap opera '' Another World'' in the recurring role of Captain Sean Delaney from 1984 to 1988. His last stage performance was in 1999, in ''Lake Hollywood''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Justice
Katherine Justice (born October 28, 1942) is an American actress with many television guest star roles in the 1960s on through the 1980s and a few major film roles. She had a leading role as a criminal conspirator in the made-for-TV movie, '' Prescription Murder'' (1968), which later became the popular television mystery series ''Columbo''. She played the recurring role of Sheila Hogan in ''Falcon Crest'' starting in 1982. She portrayed Rita Jones in the syndicated drama '' Dangerous Women'' (1991). Early life and education Justice was born and grew up in Ohio. She briefly was the 1960 Miss Ohio Universe, but wasn't able to compete in the Miss Universe competition when it was discovered she was 17, under the minimum 18 year age limit. Justice graduated from Carnegie Tech Drama School in 1964. Career After graduating, Justice went to the Front Street Theater in Memphis for the summer of 1964. From there she performed at Washington's Arena Stage starring as Lola in ''Damn Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
