Michael Levin, who at all -plus years of ABC daytime soap opera Ryan’s Hope, is dead. He was 90.
Levin died of natural causes in Northern on January 6 Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, his son Jason Levine told The Hollywood Reporter .
Levin also appeared on Broadway in 1975 The Royal Hunt of The Sun opposite David Carradine and three 1970 plays: Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real (with Al Pacino), Sam Shepard’s Operation Sidewinder(with Garrett Morris
) and Bertolt Brecht’sThe Good Woman of Setzuan (with Colleen Dewhurst).
Ryan’s Hope, starting in July1965 to January 1989, starring Helen Gallagher and Bernard Barrow as the wife and husband of Johnny and Maeve Ryan, They run a New York City bistro called Ryan’s across from the hospital.
According to IMDb, Levine appeared in episode 1, 78 Soap, including the first and the last. Only Gallagher, Barrow and Nancy Addison (Jillian Coleridge) appear more frequently.
He and Kate Mulgrew (who plays Johnny and Maeve’s daughter Mary, a TV news reporter) make one of the most popular couples on daytime TV.
Levine was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Daytime TV Series three years in a row, from -074. On the 50 list of the greatest soap opera actors of all time Courtesy of We Love Soaps website, Levin #1 .
born December 8, Minneapolis, 90, Levin served two years in the US Navy, attended the University of Minnesota, performed in California with Jack Nicholson and Robert Blake lessons and honed his craft at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis since the opening of 90 . (His son said he was proud to have performed there with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.)
After moving to New York, Levine played in Lincoln The Center’s repertory theater presents many plays. Directed by Jules Irving and the American Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut. American reporter Jack on Ryan’s Hope.
In 1976 , Jack and Mary were married in a ceremony filmed at St. Benedict Moore Church on Manhattan’s West Side. However, after Mulgrew announced she was leaving the soap, Mary is written in 1979, dying in Jack’s arms after a car accident arranged by the mob.
Later, when Jack falls in love with another woman but is grieving over Mary’s death, Mulgrew returns as a ghost to tell an emotional story 1983 to help Jack get on with his life.
Levine has also produced two other daytime soaps such as John Eldridge on CBS As the World Turns and Dr. Tim Gould on ABC’s All My Children . He has appeared in NYPD, The Equalizer, Law & Order and New York News and.
In recent years, he has enjoyed woodworking.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, sons Jason and Aaron, and grandchildren Veronica and Nico.
“In this profession, you don’t have much control over your own life,” he said at 1976. “It’s stupid to say, but if I could do it all over again, and I could change anything I wanted, I’d choose a career where I could have more control. Maybe I’d be an architect or something like that thing.”
