Kyle Sampson is a fictional character from the
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daytime soap opera
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Guiding Light
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''. He was played by
Larkin Malloy
Thomas Larkin Malloy (September 24, 1954 – September 29, 2016) was an American soap opera actor, announcer, voice-over artist and acting teacher.
Early life
Malloy was born in New York City, the third child of John and Theresa (née Larkin) ...
from 1984 to 1987. Kyle was the result of an affair between
Cardinal
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John Malone and Sally Gleason. He was the President of Sampson Industries which caused him to become an enemy to both
Alan Spaulding
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and Billy Lewis. It was once believed that Kyle was the son of Lewis Oil founder, H.B. Lewis. Kyle was in love with and engaged to Billy and H.B.'s ex-wife
Reva Shayne
Reva Shayne is a fictional character from ''Guiding Light'', played by four-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Kim Zimmer from November 28, 1983, to July 23, 1990, and August 14, 1995, until the show's final episode on September 18, 2009. Zimmer has b ...
. Kyle Sampson was once believed to be the biological father of Reva's daughter
Marah. But he was the biological father of Ben Reade with his ex-wife Maeve. In 1987 after having left Springfield Kyle had become engaged to a woman named Amy Dupree. Later in that same year Kyle and Amy were involved in a plane crash that killed both Amy and his father John Malone and left Kyle comatose.
Sampson, Kyle
Fictional business executives
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