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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 19, 1916
Died
December 11, 2000
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- David Paul Lewis
David Lewis
0.5 Popularity
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
8.7
Mr. Althaus
Nero Wolfe
1979
4.4
Dr. Caleb Odum
Mean Dog Blues
1978
4.0
Judge Lang
Standing Tall
1978
🎬
4.4
Justice Hughes
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
8.6
Ambassador Haviland
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976
5.0
Kate McShane
1975
7.6
Burton Woodruff
The Rockford Files
1974
7.6
Auctioneer
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
8.0
Good Times
1974
5.6
Minor Role (uncredited)
Cleopatra Jones
1973
Credits
Nero Wolfe
as Mr. Althaus
1979
8.7
Mean Dog Blues
as Dr. Caleb Odum
1978
4.4
Standing Tall
as Judge Lang
1978
4.0
🎬
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
as Justice Hughes
1977
4.4
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
as Ambassador Haviland
1976
8.6
Kate McShane
1975
5.0
The Rockford Files
as Burton Woodruff
1974
7.6
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Auctioneer
1974
7.6
Good Times
1974
8.0
Cleopatra Jones
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1973
5.6
Cannon
1971
6.6
Generation
as Arlington
1969
4.5
The Boston Strangler
as Judge Schroeder
1968
6.7
Ironside
1967
6.8
The Doomsday Flight
as Mr. Rierdon
1966
6.4
That Girl
1966
6.1
Love on a Rooftop
1966
5.0
Batman
as Warden Crichton
1966
7.3
Run for Your Life
as The Consul
1965
7.2
Run for Your Life
as Miller
1965
7.2
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Cronkite
1965
3.1
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
7.0
Bewitched
1964
7.9
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dr. Kranz
1964
7.7
Honeymoon Hotel
as Mr. Hampton
1964
4.1
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Alan Brossanquet
1963
5.3
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as R. Randolph Wetherill
1963
5.3
The Great Adventure
as Dr. Bartlett
1963
0.0
The Farmer's Daughter
1963
5.0
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
A Girl Named Tamiko
as US Consul R.C. Harcourt
1962
5.0
Kid Galahad
as Otto Danzig
1962
6.1
The Spiral Road
as Maj. Vlormans
1962
5.2
The New Breed
as Maury Keeler
1961
7.0
The New Breed
as Townsend
1961
7.0
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Robert Coneely
1961
5.5
Cain's Hundred
as Martin Allard
1961
4.7
The Absent-Minded Professor
as General Singer
1961
6.5
Harrigan and Son
1960
0.0
🎬
Peter Loves Mary
1960
5.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Dr. Harrison Everett Breen
1960
7.6
Pete and Gladys
1960
6.0
The Apartment
as Al Kirkeby
1960
8.2
Johnny Midnight
1960
0.0
One Step Beyond
as Dr. Edward Brown
1959
5.6
One Step Beyond
as Dr. Grimes
1959
5.6
Man with a Camera
as Carl Baines
1958
4.6
Perry Mason
as George Alder
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as John Gifford
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A. Mark Hanson
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Albert McCann
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Luke Balfour
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as A. K. Dudley
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Wallis Lamphier
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Jerry Kane
1957
5.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
That Certain Feeling
as Joe Wickes
1956
5.3
The Scarlet Hour
as Dr. Sam Lynbury
1956
5.1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Jim
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ed Boling
1955
7.8
The Millionaire
as Dave Scott
1955
5.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Steve
1950
5.6
Lights Out
1949
5.8
Studio One
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Narrator
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Edmund Taylor
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Albert Brisbane
1948
6.3