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7th Daytime Emmy Awards
The 7th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1980 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1979). The seventh awards included a cameo appearance category, giving an award to a memorable soap cameo. Six awards were given. The ceremony was telecast at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 on NBC. It preempted '' Another World'', which was a 90-minute program at the time. Winners in each category are in bold. Outstanding Daytime Drama Series *''All My Children'' *'' Another World'' *''Guiding Light'' Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series * James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, ''All My Children'') * William Mooney (Paul Martin, ''All My Children'') *Douglass Watson (Mac Cory, ''Another World'') *Franc Luz (Dr. John Bennett, '' The Doctors'') * John Gabriel (Dr. Seneca Beaulac, ''Ryan's Hope'') *Michael Levin (Jack Fenelli, ''Ryan's Hope'') Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series *Julia Barr (Brooke English, ''All My Children'') *Kathleen Noone (Ellen D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio 8H
Studio 8H is a television studio located in New York City in the United States. The studio is a part of NBC Studios, the home of the NBC television network, located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It is most notable for housing the live broadcast of ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL''), which has been broadcast from the studio since the show's inception in 1975. Construction Studio 8H was originally built in 1933, at the time of Radio City’s initial construction. It was intended not only for orchestral performances but also for radio variety programs with large studio audiences. It became the home of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1937. At the time of construction, Studio 8H was the world's largest radio studio, feet with a height of three stories, which could house a full orchestra. It was converted for television use in 1950, primarily for the live broadcast of ''Kraft Television Theatre''. History Studio 8H is now most prominent for housing the NBC sketch comedy show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mooney (actor)
William Mooney is an American television and theatre actor. Mooney played the character Paul Martin in the daytime soap opera ''All My Children''. He has been nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards, including a 1980 nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Mooney is also a storyteller. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards for albums with David Holt. Filmography *Second Sight (1989) – Fritz Bloom *C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (1988) (TV) – aka Python Wolf *Beer (1985) – Newscaster *A Flash of Green (1984) – Leroy Shanner *The Next Man (1976) – Press Room Reporter *All My Children (1970) TV Series – Paul Martin #2 (1972–1982, 1984–1985, 1995) *"The Mayor of Sherwood" (1987 TV Mini Series) – Mayor Rob Sachs Television *''As the World Turns ''As the World Turns'' (often abbreviated as ''ATWT'') is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created ''As the World Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Hospital
''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the list of longest-running television shows by category, longest-running American soap opera in production, and the second in American history after ''Guiding Light''. Concurrently, it is the world's third longest-running scripted drama series in production after British serials ''The Archers'' and ''Coronation Street'', as well as the world's second-longest-running televised soap opera still in production. ''General Hospital'' premiered on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network on April 1, 1963. ''General Hospital'' is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, with 14 wins. The show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Charleson
Leslie Charleson (born February 22, 1945) is an American actress, best known for her role as Monica Quartermaine in the ABC daytime soap opera ''General Hospital''. Life and career Charleson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Actress Kate Charleson was her sister. Her career began on short-lived ABC daytime soap opera ''A Flame in the Wind'' in 1964. In 1966 she joined the cast of ''As the World Turns''. From 1967 to 1970, she starred on the CBS soap opera '' Love Is a Many Splendored Thing''. She played the role of Iris Donnelly Garrison. Her character was a part of a highly popular love triangle with David Birney and Donna Mills. In 1968, she played the role of a doctor's daughter in the ''Wild Wild West'' in the episode "The Night of Fire and Brimstone". She guest-starred on many series from 1970 to 1977, including ''Adam-12''; ''Emergency!''; '' Ironside''; ''Mannix; Marcus Welby, M.D.''; ''Happy Days''; ''Cannon''; ''The Streets of San Francisco''; and ''The Rockford Files' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edge Of Night
''The Edge of Night'' is an American television mystery crime drama series and soap opera, created by Irving Vendig and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network for most of its run until November 28, 1975. The series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984. 7,420 episodes were produced, of which some 1,800 are available for syndication. Writer Sir P.G. Wodehouse, actresses Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt, were all reportedly devoted fans. Concept ''The Edge of Night'', whose working title was ''The Edge of Darkness'', premiered on April 2, 1956, as one of the first two half-hour serials on television, the other being ''As the World Turns''. Prior to the debuts of both shows, 15-minute-long shows had been the standard. Both shows aired on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show was originally conceived as the daytime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole; November 11, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the soap opera ''The Edge of Night''. She also portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in ''Planet of the Apes'' (1968), and its sequels ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' (1970) and ''Escape from the Planet of the Apes'' (1971). Early life Hunter was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Grace Lind, who was trained as a concert pianist, and Donald Cole, a refrigeration engineer. She was of English and Welsh descent. Hunter attended Miami Beach High School. Career Hunter's first film role was in the 1943 film noir ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverlee McKinsey
Beverlee McKinsey (August 9, 1935 – May 2, 2008) was an American actress. She is best known for her roles on daytime serials, including Iris Wheeler, Iris Cory Carrington on ''Another World (TV series), Another World'' and the spin-off series ''Texas (TV series), Texas'' from 1972 to 1981 and Alexandra Spaulding on ''Guiding Light'' from 1984 to 1992. Early life McKinsey was born Beverlee Magruder in McAlester, Oklahoma, McAlester, Oklahoma, on August 9, 1935. She was the daughter of Warren and Jewell Magruder of McAlester. McKinsey graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1956 with a bachelor's degree in Drama. Her professional career began in the New York theater. She understudied the leading role of newlywed Corie in the original Broadway theatre, Broadway production of ''Barefoot in the Park'' and was given the opportunity to perform the role opposite Robert Redford several times. She also co-starred as Honey in the London production of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Noone
Kathleen Noone ( O'Meara; January 8, 1945) is an American actress. She began her career as a singer in nightclubs and performed in musicals off-Broadway before making her television debut in the CBS daytime soap opera, ''As the World Turns'' (1975–1976). From 1977 to 1989, Noone played Ellen Shepherd Dalton on the ABC daytime soap opera, ''All My Children''. For this role, she won Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1987. In 1990, Noone moved to prime time, starring as villainous Claudia Whittaker in the CBS series, ''Knots Landing'' (1990–1993). She returned to daytime television as Bette Katzenkazrahi on NBC's '' Sunset Beach'' (1997–1999), for which she received another Daytime Emmy Award nomination. She has had recurring roles on ''L.A. Law'', ''Party of Five'', ''According to Jim'', and ''Dexter''. Life and career Noone was born in Hillsdale, New Jersey to a professional baseball player father. She graduated from University of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Barr
Julia Barr (born Julia Rose Buchheit on February 8, 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress. Barr is most famous for her role on the soap opera '' All My Children'', playing the character of Brooke English. She played the role from 1976 to 1981 and from 1982 to December 20, 2006 and Barr made a special appearance as Brooke on January 5, 2010 as part of the series' 40th anniversary, and returned on February 23, 2010 for a three-month stint until April 23, 2010. Growing up as an only child in Fort Wayne, Barr made her acting debut at the age of 13 in a production of ''Peter Pan''. This helped her decide to pursue acting as a career, and by the time she graduated from college at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, she had performed in 25 professional productions. She spent two years at the Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo, New York. Career Barr broke into soap operas with a short stint as bad girl Reenie Szabo on '' Ryan's Hope''. She was invited to jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Levin (actor)
Michael Levin (; born 21 May 1943) is an American philosopher and writer. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at City University of New York. He has published on metaphysics, epistemology, Race (classification of human beings), race, homosexuality, animal rights, the philosophy of archaeology, the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science. Levin's central research interests are in epistemology (reliabilism and Gettier problems) and in philosophy of race. Education Levin graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1960, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University in 1964, and studied at Columbia University where he received a doctoral degree in 1969. His dissertation was titled "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics". Philosophical views Levin advocates reliabilism in epistemology and the theory of compatibilism in free will. Political and social views Torture In the 1982 article "The Case for Torture", Levin argued th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan's Hope
''Ryan's Hope'' is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975, to January 13, 1989. It revolves around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Origins In late 1974, ABC Daytime approached Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, the head writers of CBS' ''Love of Life,'' about creating a new soap opera similar to ''General Hospital''. Labine and Mayer added a large Irish-American family — the Ryans — to what ABC was calling ''City Hospital''. Another of the show's working titles was ''A Rage to Love'', but that was soon changed.Schemering, Christopher, ''Soap Opera Encyclopedia'', 1987, Ballantine Books Patriarch Johnny Ryan ( Bernard Barrow) owned a bar, Ryan's, across from fictional Riverside Hospital in New York City. His wife, Maeve (Helen Gallagher), assisted him in his duties, as did their children: Frank, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gabriel (actor)
John Gabriel (born Jack Monkarsh; May 25, 1931 – June 11, 2021) was an American actor, singer-lyricist, and producer who is best known for his role as Seneca Beaulac on ''Ryan's Hope'' (1975–1985, 1988–1989), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination in 1980. Gabriel, who played the Professor in the original, unaired ''Gilligan's Island'' pilot, was the father of actress Andrea Gabriel. He appeared on Broadway in ''The Happy Time'' in 1968, and produced the shortlived eponymous television series ''Charles Grodin'' starring Charles Grodin in 1995. Family Gabriel was born in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest of three children of Harry and Rae Monkarsh. His parents were of Polish Jewish/Russian Jewish descent. His father was born in then-Mandatory Palestine. Career Gabriel, throughout his career as an actor and singer, worked steadily in a wide variety of capacities. He appeared on stage in two Broadway productions, ''The Happy Time'' and the musical ''Applause'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
