
Denise Alexander Twilight Zone As a young man, then served in two long-time Lesley Webber General Hospitalalready dead. She is 85 years old.
Alexander died on March 5 at her nephew’s home in Boulder, Colorado, and her stepson Anthony Colla told Hollywood Reporter.
Alexander is the daughter of a talent agent, at NBC The days we live - She started during college in 1966 GH ABC producer heard that her contract had expired and started “You can’t refuse the situation”, she recalled during an interview in 201o I love soap.
She moved to Port Charles in March 1973 as Dr. Lesley Williams, and for the next 11 years her strong and compassionate role would marry twice to Dr. Rick Gregory (Michael Gregory, then Chris Robinson) and found that her daughter, Genie Francis, (who thought was a child) was still alive.
Leslie was killed in a screen-screen car accident in March 1984, Alexander told Good morning USA Host David Hartman, she regrets seeing herself go.
"When you worked closely with the character for 12 years, she has become my closest companion and I like her," she said. "She is a lot of things, I'm not, like neat, organized, always cheerful...well, not always."
In August 1986, she returned to the soap world and was in NBC Another world By 1989, then back GH As a regular visitor from 1996 to 2009.
In her second GH Stretch, Lesley had to deal with Laura's own round with Catatonia, and the fact is that her daughter would hit Rick with the head of Webber's Loft. Of course, things are not what they think.
“She broke the barriers on screen and portrayed Dr. Lesley Webber, one of the earliest female doctors on daytime TV in nearly fifty years.” General Hospital Executive producer Frank Valentini pointed out in a statement. “It has been a great deal to reappear my role in recent years, and I am honored to have the opportunity to work with her.”
Denise Lois Alexander was born on November 11, 1939 in New York and grew up on Long Island. Her father, Alec, is an agent with clients including Frank Gorshin and Sal Mineo.
Since the age of 6, Alexander has performed on more than 2,500 radio shows in New York. This includes playing the magician's daughter Big man 1950, 1953 - 54 marriagealso suitable for NBC.
"You would drop out of school, from one show to another," she recalls. "They were 15 minutes or half an hour of performances, and you would sit on the table, read the script, rehearse a few times and do it.
Alexander at Perry Como Kraft Concert Hall In 1949. Then she took action on such an anthology drama Armstrong Circle Theatre,,,,, Philco TV Theatre and Robert Montgomery Gift And perform regularly in the science fiction series Tom Corbett, Space Craft Starting from 1951-55.
She appeared on Broadway in 1952-53, reviving Lillian Hellman Children's timestarring Kim Hunter and Patricia Neal, then directed by Don Siegel Street crime (1956), also starring John Cassavetes.
She showed up climax!,,,,, My father knows best,,,,, Riley's Life,,,,, Danny Thomas Show,,,,, detective and Dobie Gillis's Many Lovesin 1960, she played the role of the daughter of a military scientist (Fritz Weaver) in episode 14 of CBS Twilight Zonepraise "third place from the sun".
Also in 1960, she started the two-year astronaut's daughter on CBS soap in 1960-62. Clear horizon Maria adapted from the movie The story on the west side.
Alexander accepted part of Susan while studying for a bachelor’s degree in English at UCLA The days we live.
"She was originally a bad girl, kicked out of boarding school for smoking and drinking, just like her mother (played by Coleen Gray) was starting a romantic relationship with Mickey Horton (John Clarke). "Suddenly, she had this problem on her hands.
She said Susan lost her young son in a fatal swing accident and killed her husband, Clive Clive Clerk, but the storyline of Alexander was tamed.
She recalls: "I remember a petition and using this piece of paper in the studio to sign autographs for all the actors and crew members, 'and '``If Susan Martin's character had a romantic relationship with a romantic relationship, the show would have been even more fun.''
"I never got you to the neck role. I was a bad girl at first, but as a good girl, her big event baked at some point." (When she's for GHBennye Gatteys replaced her.
and GH In 1976, Alexander was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award in the Drama Series, and the show won No. 1 in Daytime ratings shortly after it hit Robinson in 1978.
Six years later, when she said she wanted to stick with it but had little work, GH Killed Leslie, fans picketed ABC in protest.
As McKinnon, she married Vince McKinnon (Duke Stroud, then Robert Hogan), fought amnesia, and then lived in Minnesota with her children. Despite the high salary, Alexander said the commute from Los Angeles to New York finally arrived at her.
She will stop GH For several times in 2013, working on the Internet Beautiful series and hostel.
Alexander married actor director Richard A. Colla - he plays Tony Merritt The days we live - Death from the 1980s until Christmas Eve 2021. Her stepdaughter Elizabeth died on March 31.
In an interview in 2010, Alexander reviewed the enjoyable time he became a soap opera star.
"When you try to get rid of some look, the audience will surround your car and scream," she said. "Finally, it's so good. I don't have to audition and be told I'm too young, too old, too fat, too fat, too boring, nothing.