Peter White photographed for ‘Ally My Children’ on December 14, 1978.Photo:ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
Peter White, best known for starring inAll My ChildrenandThe Boys in the Band, hasdiedat age 86.
The late actor’sAll My Childrencostar Kathleen Noone, who played Ellen Shepherd Dalton on the beloved soap, confirmed his death toThe Hollywood Reporteron Saturday. He died in his Los Angeles home on Nov. 1 from melanoma.
White was born in New York City on October 10, 1937. He became the fourth actor to take on the role ofAll My Children’s Lincoln “Linc” Tyler and portrayed Linc on a recurring basis for more than four decades, with his final appearance in 2005.
“I started on the show around 1974,” White recalled toSoap Opera Digestin 2008. “When Eileen [Herlie] came on and we all realized we were going to have our storylines together … forgive me for saying this, but that’s when soaps — [including]All My Children— were really good.”
Kitty (Francesca James) and Lincoln (Peter White) on ‘All My Children’ on May 30, 1975.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
Some of his many other roles across film and television included playingMary-KateandAshley Olsen’s grandpa inPassport to Paris, starring oppositeKatie HolmesinFirst Daughterand appearing alongsideBruce WillisinArmageddon.
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Off screen, White starred as Alan McCarthy in an off-Broadway production of 1968’s groundbreaking playThe Boys in the Band, which centered on a group of gay men attending a birthday party in Manhattan.
“Opening night, none of us knew what we had,” White also recalled toSoap Opera Digestin 2008. “We all just thought, ‘It’s a play, it’s something new, it’s different and it’s good.’ It was a 100 percent gay audience — and then the next day, it went crazy!”
He continued, “We got a call to come to the theater early, because there was such a crowd around the theater, you couldn’t get near it. Everyone at the time wanted to call it a gay play — [I always thought] it wasn’t [so much] a gay play [as] it was a play with gay characters.”
source: people.com
