Actor. Best known for his role as Dr. Charles Tyler on the soap opera "All My Children", a role he created and played from the show's first episode in 1970 until 1983. Husband of award-winning author Madeleine L'Engle (Camp). He and his wife met while they were both young stage actors in traveling companies in the 1940s. His career in stage, screen and television spanned several decades. He played in such Broadway productions as "The Joyous Season," "I Know My Love" and "Medea," with stars such as Ethel Barrymore, Judith Anderson, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. His theater credits also include ''Harriet," "The Cherry Orchard," "One Man Show" and "Alice in Wonderland." The critic Clive Barnes called him "irrepressibly urbane" as the playwright in a 1973 Roundabout Theater production of "The Play's the Thing" by Ferenc Molnar. He retired from acting for about 10 years in the 1950's to run a general store in Goshen, Connecticut while he and his wife raised their 3 children. About a year after returning to the stage he replaced Melvyn Douglas in "The Best Man." He died of cancer at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut. His wife later chronicled their marriage and their struggle with his last illness in her book Two Part Invention.
Actor. Best known for his role as Dr. Charles Tyler on the soap opera "All My Children", a role he created and played from the show's first episode in 1970 until 1983. Husband of award-winning author Madeleine L'Engle (Camp). He and his wife met while they were both young stage actors in traveling companies in the 1940s. His career in stage, screen and television spanned several decades. He played in such Broadway productions as "The Joyous Season," "I Know My Love" and "Medea," with stars such as Ethel Barrymore, Judith Anderson, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. His theater credits also include ''Harriet," "The Cherry Orchard," "One Man Show" and "Alice in Wonderland." The critic Clive Barnes called him "irrepressibly urbane" as the playwright in a 1973 Roundabout Theater production of "The Play's the Thing" by Ferenc Molnar. He retired from acting for about 10 years in the 1950's to run a general store in Goshen, Connecticut while he and his wife raised their 3 children. About a year after returning to the stage he replaced Melvyn Douglas in "The Best Man." He died of cancer at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut. His wife later chronicled their marriage and their struggle with his last illness in her book Two Part Invention.
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