Michael Fairman TV. The Massachusetts native attended Amherst College and the Royal Academy in London as a Fulbright scholar before launching his acting career in 1953 during the “golden age” of live TV broadcasts opposite legends such as Jack Benny and Robert Montgomery.
MacDonnell also starred as iconic comic book character “Dick Tracy” in a 1967 TV series pilot adaptation, three years before he became an original cast member on “All My Children,” which revolved around the often tawdry lives of several families in the fictional hamlet Pine Valley, Pennsylvania.
He joined the daytime mainstay 1970 — and remained in the cast for more than four decades.The recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 Daytime Emmys retired from.
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