David Lewis
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1916-10-19
Deathday 2000-12-11 (84 years old)
Place of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As David Paul Lewis
David Lewis
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Mr. Althaus
as Dr. Caleb Odum
as Judge Lang
as Justice Hughes
as Ambassador Haviland
as Auctioneer
as Burton Woodruff
as Minor Role (uncredited)
as Arlington
as Judge Schroeder
as Mr. Rierdon
as Warden Crichton
as Cronkite
as The Consul
as Miller
as Mr. Hampton
as Alan Brossanquet
as R. Randolph Wetherill
as Dr. Bartlett
as US Consul R.C. Harcourt
as Otto Danzig
as Maj. Vlormans
as General Singer
as Maury Keeler
as Townsend
as Dr. Robert Coneely
as Martin Allard
as Al Kirkeby
as Dr. Harrison Everett Breen
as Dr. Edward Brown
as Dr. Grimes
as Carl Baines
as George Alder
as John Gifford
as Deputy D.A. Mark Hanson
as Albert McCann
as Luke Balfour
as A. K. Dudley
as Wallis Lamphier
as Jerry Kane
as Joe Wickes
as Dr. Sam Lynbury
as Jim
as Ed Boling
as Dave Scott
as Steve
as Narrator
as Edmund Taylor
as Albert Brisbane
Producer
as Associate Producer