List of General Hospital characters introduced in the 1980s
[3] Actor Fred Divel played the body double during the evil twin storyline where Brian Patrick Clarke's face was unseen and both characters were both in the same scene.
They posed as a priest and a nun to find information in the convent where Monica gave birth but were exposed when the Quartermaines were visited by Sister Mary Agnes who had given them shelter.
With the help of Ginny Blake, Robert Scorpio recreates the night of the ball and finds that Beatrice was not murdered, but rather accidentally died when she ingested Lila's heart medication.
The infant Kristina is put up for adoption, while Natasha's name is changed to Alexis and Mikkos lies, claiming she is the daughter of his late sister, Sophia, and raises her in Greece with his sons.
While in Port Charles, Victor acquainted himself with great-nephew Nikolas Cassadine and his son Spencer, before departing for the Crichton-Clark facility in Scarsdale with Robin and later encounters Heather Webber.
After Peter kidnaps Maxie and Lulu to a secluded cabin, they are nearly rescued by Dante and Nathan West (Liesl's son) before Victor gasses the place, and abducts all four of them to the Crichton-Clark facility.
[14] Hughes briefly returned from November 13 to 22, 1995 as Anna's spirit to comfort the character's daughter Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), who is dealing with the loss of her boyfriend to AIDS-related illness and is herself HIV-positive.
However, Anna suffers a miscarriage in October 1988 when she is trapped in an elevator rigged to fall by Victor's jealous daughter Olivia St. John (Tonja Walker), who had become obsessed with Duke.
With the help of her brother-in-law Dimitri Marick (Michael Nader) and his brother Edmund Grey (John Callahan), Anna checks into Pine Valley Medical Center, posing as Alex.
Anna gives birth to daughter Leora Devane Hayward on February 26, 2003, named after David's late brother, Leo du Pres (Josh Duhamel).
Anna returns in 2007 and helps Patrick's father Noah Drake (Rick Springfield) pass himself off as rock star Eli Love during the LIFEbeat concert which is held in support of HIV/AIDS awareness.
Robert doesn't want to lose another child, so he decides to find Ethan and leaves Anna behind, going before Robin's funeral, not knowing that Luke and Holly lied to him in order to give him a reason to live.
In 2023, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Anna #12 on his ranked list of General Hospital’s 40+ Greatest Characters of All Time, commenting that "The word “kickass” could’ve been coined to describe the former police commissioner, an all-around Superwoman whose capacity for hand-to-hand combat is matched only by her aptitude for heart-to-heart love.
But then a few months later Sean and Luke are lured to a dark alley in Port Charles by evil mobster Joe Scully, who is trying to take over Frank Smith's criminal empire.
Tiffany Donely (born Elsie Mae Crumholz; previously Hill) was a fictional character on the popular ABC soap opera General Hospital.
Tiffany's flirtatious manner created a friendship between her and wealthy Edward Quartermaine that was purely platonic but often saw them in cahoots together, and she was the subject of a teenage crush from former waterfront hood Blackie Parrish who was hanging around and working at the Haunted Star.
When Luke shot Sean and badly wounded him during a shootout with mobster Frank Smith, General Hospital recommended that they transfer him to another treatment facility in Boston, Massachusetts.
[60] Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) shows up on Sean Donely (John Reilly)'s doorstep in Mexico where he meets with Peter and they set out to track down the men who have stolen Felicia's scepter and the two end up separated.
Not willing to shed his blue collar career for an executive one at ELQ, Jimmy Lee worked at various construction jobs, but fell in love with his distant cousin, Celia, who was engaged to the handsome but stuffy Dr. Grant Putnam.
However, it is soon revealed that the actual shooter is Victor's oldest and illegitimate son, Dino Antoinelli (Chris DeRose) with his longtime mistress, Dimitra (Linda Cristal).
When Wagner and ABC couldn't come to terms during an important storyline involving Felicia's daughter, Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms), soap vet Sandra Ferguson took over the role from June to November 2005 in what was a shocking recast at the time.
[85][86][87] In 2023, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Felicia at #20 on his ranked list of General Hospital’s 40+ Greatest Characters of All Time, commenting "Really, this long-running heroine should have her own action figure, because from the moment that we met her — when she was unconvincingly disguised as a boy, no less!
When Felicia witnesses Ryan murder his wife Gloria, she develops amnesia but manages to make her way back to Port Charles, leaving Maxie in Texas with her grandmother.
After the funeral, Felicia initially decides to stay in Port Charles to help Mac and the PCPD catch the man who murdered her daughter, but eventually leaves again and returns to Texas.
Felicia once again returns to Port Charles on April 27, 2012, to help Maxie cope with personal and legal troubles stemming from Robin's apparent death and the murder of Dr. Lisa Niles.
In 2023, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Frisco at #9 on his ranked list of General Hospital’s 40+ Greatest Characters of All Time, commenting that "When Jack Wagner’s crime-fighting pop star sang, “You’re aaall III neeed,” few and far between were the audience members who didn’t wish that he was singing to them.
In February 2013, Frisco resurfaces in Port Charles, having been informed of Maxie's plans to act as a surrogate for Lulu Spencer (Julie Marie Berman) and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna).
"[88] Putnam's earlier crimes included allowing his younger brother Ian to die in a skiing accident when they were both teenagers and murdering his doctor while escaping from a sanitarium.
The character was presumed dead after faking his death from November 30 to December 7 but was ultimately killed off a week later by his daughter-in-law Betsy, who tried to frame his personal assistant Autumn Clayton for the murder.
He married and divorced Spencer cousin Jenny Eckert, and band manager and recording company executive Lois Cerullo, the mother of his daughter Brook Lynn Ashton.
