FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: LONGTIME ACTOR OF GENERAL HOSPITAL FAME, STUART DAMON DIES AT 84!

Stuart Damon, Longtime Actor on ‘General Hospital,’ Dies at 84....He sang on Broadway and played a spy on the British TV series 'The Champions' before his three-decade gig as Alan Quartermaine on the ABC soap..........Stuart Damon, the onetime Broadway singer who portrayed Dr. Alan Quartermaine on the ABC soap opera General Hospital and its Port Charles spinoff for more than three decades, has died. He was 84.

Damon had been struggling with renal failure, KABC reporter George Pennacchio said in a Facebook post about Damon’s death, quoting Damon’s son, Christopher, who said of the elder Damon’s time on the soap, “It was his favorite place to be. He loved playing Alan and was always so appreciative of that role and that job. It was his passion.”

After beginning his career on Broadway, the tall, dark-haired Damon shot to prominence when he portrayed the prince opposite Lesley Ann Warren in a lavish 1965 CBS musical production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.