[4] He dropped out during his sophomore year of college and "went right into radio working on little stations all around New York City,"[3] beginning at WWRL.

He also was featured in The Chase, Cloak and Dagger, Inner Sanctum Mystery, The Man Behind the Gun, and This Is Nora Drake.

He won Daytime Emmy Awards in 1976 and 1981,[8] and was First Lady Pat Nixon's favorite soap opera actor.

[2] Haines was reunited with longtime Search for Tomorrow costar Mary Stuart on the prime-time special which saluted 50 years of the soaps in 1994.

Haines played the role of Sid Sugarman, Ada Hobson's old boyfriend who escorted her to a gala honoring the show's 25th anniversary.