David Lewis
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Boston Strangler
as Judge Schroeder 1968
The Absent-Minded Professor
as General Singer 1961
Cleopatra Jones
as Minor Role (uncredited) 1973
Kid Galahad
as Otto Danzig 1962
The Scarlet Hour
as Dr. Sam Lynbury 1956
The Spiral Road
as Maj. Vlormans 1962
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Cronkite 1965
Honeymoon Hotel
as Mr. Hampton 1964
The Doomsday Flight
as Mr. Rierdon 1966
Mean Dog Blues
as Dr. Caleb Odum 1978
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
as Justice Hughes 1977
That Certain Feeling
as Joe Wickes 1956
Nero Wolfe
as Mr. Althaus 1979
A Girl Named Tamiko
as US Consul R.C. Harcourt 1962
Generation
as Arlington 1969