David Lewis

Known for ActingBorn 1916-10-19Died 2000-12-11Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

David Lewis (October 19, 1916 – December 11, 2000) was an American actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was best known for being the original actor to portray Edward Quartermaine from 1978 to 1993 on the American soap opera General Hospital. Lewis was a pioneering actor in television, his first televised role occurring in 1949 on the show Captain Video and His Video Rangers. His credits include appearing in seven episodes of Perry Mason and in the recurring role of Warden Crichton in Batman. Lewis appeared on daytime T.V., making his soap debut on Love of Life as a murderer and later playing patriarch Henry Pierce on Bright Promise. Brief guest stints on The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives followed. In 1978, he joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Edward Quartermaine, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama in 1982. Lewis took time off between 1987 and 1988 for medical recovery and departed in 1989 during which time Edward was believed to be dead. Lewis continued to come to the studio, however, to tape his voice so wife Lila could have conversations with him. Lewis made his comeback in November 1991 when Edward came back from the dead and in the summer of 1993, Lewis announced he was retiring permanently.Read more

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The Great Adventure

Harrigan and Son

Nero Wolfe

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

The Apartment

Good Times

Bewitched

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The Rockford Files

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Breed

Perry Mason

The Andy Griffith Show

Batman

Have Gun, Will Travel

Run for Your Life

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Love on a Rooftop

All This, and Heaven Too

Johnny Midnight

Ironside

Cannon

The Boston Strangler

The Doomsday Flight

The Absent-Minded Professor

Kraft Suspense Theatre

The Dakotas

The Philco Television Playhouse

Peter Loves Mary

Pete and Gladys

That Girl

Standing Tall

Kate McShane

Kid Galahad

The Farmer's Daughter

Robert Montgomery Presents

Lights Out

Ben Casey

Cleopatra Jones

A Girl Named Tamiko

Dr. Kildare

The Millionaire

One Step Beyond

That Certain Feeling

The Spiral Road

Man with a Camera

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