Charles Keating

 Charles Keating (October 22, 1941 – August 8, 2014)

Born in England, Keating moved to the United States via Canada with his family as a teenager. He was working as a hair dresser in Buffalo, New York, when a customer suggested he try out for a local play, making his stage debut in 1959 with the Buffalo Studio Theatre. Keating found steady work with the Cleveland Play House repertory company and was on tour when he met his future wife, actress Mary Chobody. The two were married in 1964 while Keating was serving in the US Army and directing plays for its entertainment division at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Keating later appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon before turning to television, winning the roles of Ernest Simpson in Edward & Mrs. Simpson and Rex Mottram in ITV's Brideshead Revisited. He was best known for his role as Carl Hutchins in the American soap opera Another World from 1983–85, and again from 1991-98 with a final appearance in 1999. He played also Charles in the satirical miniseries Fresno in 1986, which parodied the prime-time soaps of the day such as Dynasty and Dallas. In between stints on Another World, he played Dr. Damon Lazarre on All My Children, and Niles Mason on As the World Turns. In 1992, he appeared in The Bodyguard. In 2005, he had a supporting role in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.

In addition, his Broadway roles included Loot by Joe Orton (1986), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1968) and The House of Atreus (1968), which comprised three classics: Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides. At the 23rd Daytime Emmy Awards, Keating won the 1995 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in the role of Carl Hutchins on Another World. Keating died of lung cancer at the age of 72 on August 9, 2014 in Weston, Connecticut.