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David Lewis
Pittsburgh, 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 Quarte…
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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.
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1979
Nero Wolfe
Movie Mr. Althaus
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1978
Mean Dog Blues
Movie Dr. Caleb Odum
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1978
Standing Tall
Movie Judge Lang
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1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Movie Justice Hughes
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1976
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
TV show Ambassador Haviland
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1975
Kate McShane
TV show
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1974
The Rockford Files
TV show Burton Woodruff
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1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV show Auctioneer
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1974
Good Times
TV show
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1973
Cleopatra Jones
Movie Minor Role (uncredited)
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1973
Barnaby Jones
TV show Leonard
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1971
Cannon
TV show David Warren
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1969
Generation
Movie Arlington
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1968
The Boston Strangler
Movie Judge Schroeder
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1967
Ironside
TV show
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1966
The Doomsday Flight
Movie Mr. Rierdon
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1966
That Girl
TV show
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1966
Love on a Rooftop
TV show
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1966
Batman
TV show Warden Crichton
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1965
Run for Your Life
TV show The Consul
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1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Movie Cronkite
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1964
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV show Chaplain Franklin
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1964
Bewitched
TV show
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1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV show Dr. Kranz
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1964
Honeymoon Hotel
Movie Mr. Hampton
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1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV show Alan Brossanquet
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1963
The Great Adventure
TV show Dr. Bartlett
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1963
The Farmer's Daughter
TV show
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1963
The Dakotas
TV show
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1962
A Girl Named Tamiko
Movie US Consul R.C. Harcourt
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1962
Kid Galahad
Movie Otto Danzig
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1962
The Spiral Road
Movie Maj. Vlormans
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1961
The New Breed
TV show Maury Keeler
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1961
Ben Casey
TV show
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Dr. Robert Coneely
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1961
Cain's Hundred
TV show Martin Allard
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1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
Movie General Singer
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1960
Harrigan and Son
TV show
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1960
Peter Loves Mary
TV show
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1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show Dr. Harrison Everett Breen
