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.
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Movies (18)
Nero Wolfe
1979 · Mr. Althaus
Mean Dog Blues
1978 · Dr. Caleb Odum
Standing Tall
1978 · Judge Lang
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977 · Justice Hughes
Cleopatra Jones
1973 · Minor Role (uncredited)
Generation
1969 · Arlington
The Boston Strangler
1968 · Judge Schroeder
The Doomsday Flight
1966 · Mr. Rierdon
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965 · Cronkite
Honeymoon Hotel
1964 · Mr. Hampton
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 · US Consul R.C. Harcourt
Kid Galahad
1962 · Otto Danzig
The Spiral Road
1962 · Maj. Vlormans
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · General Singer
The Apartment
1960 · Al Kirkeby
That Certain Feeling
1956 · Joe Wickes
The Scarlet Hour
1956 · Dr. Sam Lynbury
All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · Associate Producer
TV shows (39)
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976 · Ambassador Haviland
Kate McShane
1975
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Auctioneer
The Rockford Files
1974 · Burton Woodruff
Good Times
1974
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Leonard
Cannon
1971 · David Warren
Ironside
1967
That Girl
1966
Love on a Rooftop
1966
Batman
1966 · Warden Crichton
Run for Your Life
1965 · The Consul, Miller
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · Chaplain Franklin
Bewitched
1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 · Dr. Kranz
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Alan Brossanquet, R. Randolph Wetherill
The Great Adventure
1963 · Dr. Bartlett
The Farmer's Daughter
1963
The Dakotas
1963
The New Breed
1961 · Maury Keeler, Townsend
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Dr. Robert Coneely
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Martin Allard
Harrigan and Son
1960
Peter Loves Mary
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Dr. Harrison Everett Breen
Pete and Gladys
1960
Johnny Midnight
1960
One Step Beyond
1959 · Dr. Edward Brown, Dr. Grimes
Man with a Camera
1958 · Carl Baines
Perry Mason
1957 · George Alder, John Gifford, Deputy D.A. Mark Hanson, Albert McCann, Luke Balfour, A. K. Dudley, Wallis Lamphier
M Squad
1957 · Jerry Kane
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Jim, Ed Boling
The Millionaire
1955 · Dave Scott
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Steve
Lights Out
1949
Studio One
1948 · Narrator, Edmund Taylor
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Albert Brisbane