Alan Quartermaine is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network.

[1] After several nominations, in 1999, Damon won his first Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of Alan during his addiction to the drug Hydrocodone.

[3] An uncredited actor portrayed the role briefly on April 1, 2014, when the character appeared as a ghost to help bring A. J. Quartermaine to heaven.

During his early years as a medical student, Alan has an affair with Rae Cummings who would give birth to a daughter, Skye.

[6] Dr. Alan Quartermaine is contacted by General Hospital's chief of staff, Steve Hardy to help with funding the new cardiac wing.

Their relationship develops into a romance and Alan chooses to stay in Port Charles; his wealthy, and colorful family soon follows.

After officially reconciling with Monica, Alan broke it off with Susan, but promised major financial support for her and Jason.

Jimmy Lee teams up with Heather in an attempt to blackmail the family with Lila's unsigned divorce papers.

When the deal goes bad, Sean bankrupts the Quartermaines and Alan blames Jimmy Lee while Monica forces them out of the mansion.

In a scheme to get the family fortune back, Alan fakes his death, frames Sean for his murder and disappears to Pautuck, New York where he lives under the alias Simon; he has a brief fling with country girl Charity Gatlin.

After a bump on the head leads to Alan believing he really is Simon, Monica realizes how much she loves him and they reunite.

[11] In October 1989, Lucy Coe seduces Alan into helping her dispose of Victor Jerome's body.

Despite the affair, Alan continues supporting his wife even after Dorman sues Monica for sexual harassment.

The rest of the family is also in crisis as Monica deals with the sexual harassment suit, a teenage Emily has also become a drug addict, while A.J.

Alan forces himself into rehab and soon reunites with his family clean and sober; he also successfully started work at GH again.

[15] In March 2000, Alan's former love, Dr. Rae Cummings comes to Port Charles searching for the child she thought died.

with his plans to get Michael back away from his adoptive father, mob boss, Sonny Corinthos; however, Alan turns him in upon realizing the lengths A.J.

Despite his death, Alan continues making ghostly appearances throughout 2007, torturing Tracy with the fact that she forged his will to leave his entire estate to her.

Alan finally disappears when Tracy completes the selfless task of watching over her stepdaughter, Lulu Spencer.

On Christmas in 2008, Monica sees Alan's ghost after she receives a special pair of glasses as a gift.

Alan and Monica immediately fall into their familiar round of bickering banter and profess their love for one another.

In 2012, Heather Webber reveals that Susan gave birth to twin boys when Jason was born; one was the crazed artist, Robert Frank, known professionally as Franco.

In 2023, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Alan at #27 on his ranked list of General Hospital's 40+ Greatest Characters of All Time, commenting that "Somewhere along the line, Monica's "better" half must've given himself a heart transplant, since the formerly-mad-as-in-angry doctor went from wanting to drop a house on her to being the true partner that she mourned as mightily as we did.