David Lewis
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.365 |
Birthday | 1916-10-19 |
Place of Birth | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | David Paul Lewis, |
1960
The Apartment
8.2/2258
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apart...
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1973
Cleopatra Jones
5.8/69
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
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Cleopatra Jones
1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
6.4/175
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...
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The Absent-Minded Professor
1962
Kid Galahad
6.1/47
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a prof...
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Kid Galahad
1978
Mean Dog Blues
4.9/5
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
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Mean Dog Blues
1964
Honeymoon Hotel
4.6/7
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
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Honeymoon Hotel
1962
A Girl Named Tamiko
5/2
A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the Uni...
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A Girl Named Tamiko
1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
5.1/5
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
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1956
That Certain Feeling
5.3/5
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicate...
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That Certain Feeling
1956
The Scarlet Hour
5/18
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
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The Scarlet Hour
1979
Nero Wolfe
8.7/3
Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only...
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1969
Generation
4.5/2
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.
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1978
Standing Tall
4/1
Set in Montana in the year 1934, a half-breed rancher and his wife are harassed by a ruthless land robber, who forces them to stand tall and defend th...
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Standing Tall
1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
3.6/7
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon...
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1962
The Spiral Road
5.2/10
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and o...
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The Spiral Road
1968
The Boston Strangler
6.7/212
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through...
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The Boston Strangler
1966
The Doomsday Flight
6.5/5
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
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