Steve Burton is heading back to General Hospital.
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told media outlets.“I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with him in his last years, as he had no immediate family,” Garland said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “We spent much time outdoors, where Jack loved to sketch, read news articles, and recite Shakespearean sonnets.” Born on Jan.
25, 1930, Axelrod served as a corporal in the US Army. He was stationed in Germany from 1953 to 1955, Variety reports.After the Korean War, Axelrod majored in architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and pursued an acting career while working as an architect.
For six years, he studied under legendary Tony Award winner Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio in NYC.Hagen, who died in 2004, also taught megastars such as Robert DeNiro, Gene Wilder, Faye Dunaway and Matthew Broderick. For his part, Axelrod made his feature film debut in Woody Allen’s 1971 comedy “Bananas,” per his IMDb page.He starred on the ABC soap “General Hospital” for 40 episodes from 1987 to 1989.He played Electrolarynx Guy and other characters on “My Name is Earl” and a semi-comatose patient who suffers an unusual fate on “Grey’s Anatomy.”Other notable credits include “Dallas,” “Dynasty,” “Night Court,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” In addition to his lengthy film and TV career, Axelrod also played Banquo in a 1969 off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and had a role in the Broadway play “Gandhi,” which closed on opening night.He taught theater at several universities, including the University of Wisconsin, Boston University, University of Michigan, and Penn State.His last credit came in 2020 with the release of “Bad Therapy,” which stars Alicia Silverstone, Rob
.Steve Burton is heading back to General Hospital.
three years after leaving the ABC soap over COVID vaccine mandates.The Big Burton Reveal came at the end of ABC’s special, “General Hospital: 60 Years of Stars & Storytelling,” which aired Thursday, Jan. 4 after the live telecast of “The Golden Bachelor” wedding.As dramatic music played, and with “GH” co-stars Kelly Monaco and Lauren Wright on either side, Burton opened a door and walked through.He appeared on-screen with these words: “Happy Anniversary, ‘General Hospital.’ Stay tuned — big things coming to Port Charles.”Burton, who’s spent the past year as Harris Michaels on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives,” has played Jason Morgan on “GH” several times — from 1991 to 2012 and again from 2017 through 2021, when he left the show right after Jason married Carly (Laura Wright).At the time, he posed a prescient video to his Instagram account in which he said he wanted his fans “to hear it from me personally … Unfortunately, ‘General Hospital’ has let me go because of the vaccine mandate” and alluded to one day returning to the soap.“I’ll always be grateful for my time on ‘General Hospital.’ I love it there, I grew up there.
Port Charles is about to welcome back an old friend.
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according to Soap Opera Network. Hartley, who appeared as Sam in the show’s Jan.
Former General Hospital star Steve Burton is officially putting his marriage behind him!
Us Weekly, the duo settled their divorce this month. Steve, 53, and Sheree, 45, are splitting legal and physical custody of the kids Makena, 19, Jack, 17, and Brooklyn, 9, as they agreed to in previous court filings. Since the divorce is uncontested, Sheree reportedly asked the court to terminate forever spousal support to both parties.The Post has contacted a rep for Steve for comment.
Soap Opera Digest reported that Paggi would appear on the Dec. 27 episode, so it’s unclear how long Storms will be away from the ABC daytime warhorse, according to multiple reports.An insider told The Post that Storms will be out “just for a couple of days.”This is not the first time that Storms has been replaced on “GH.”Maxie was temporarily recast in 2011, with Jen Lilley playing the part until Storms returned to “GH” the following year, according to Deadline.The actress also took several leaves-of-absences from “GH” in 2016, 2017 and 2018, each of varying amounts of time, from several days to several months.On those occasions, Storms was replaced by USA Network’s “Queen of the South” star Molly Burnett.Storms also missed time on “GH” in 2021 after undergoing brain surgery; Maxie was not recast and her absence was explained by her leaving Port Charles with her baby to go to Texas, according to Entertainment Weekly.Storms has starred on “General Hospital” since 2005.She also played Isabella “Belle” Black on “Days of Our Lives” from 1999 to 2004.In April 2022, Storms revealed she had bipolar disorder to “GH” co-star Maurice Benard on his video podcast, State of Mind.“I experience anxiety frequently.
Coronation Street fans have been left divided by the arrival of Bobby after he was revealed to Carla Barlow as her nephew. The character, who had just waved goodbye to her husband Peter Barlow on Boxing Day, was stunned to discover that her brother Rob Donovan has a son.
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Jack Axelrod, the actor who played the role of Victor Jerome on General Hospital, has died. He was 93.