Obit: Don Stewart @ 70; Actor Was in 'Guiding Light' Soap Opera for 16 Years

[CrankyYankee]

(From the "L.A. Times" )

Don Stewart, 70, a stage and screen actor best known for portraying Michael Bauer for 16 years on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light," died Jan. 9 at his Santa Barbara home. He had been battling lung cancer and aplastic anemia.

After joining "Guiding Light" in 1968, Bauer was once voted the most popular actor in daytime television...
After leaving "Guiding Light" in 1984, Stewart moved to California. His nearly 20 films include "Lost" (1983), "American Ninja" (1985) and the television movie "The Betty Ford Story" (1987).

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[bpatrick]

> (From the "L.A. Times" )
>
> Don Stewart, 70, a stage and screen actor best known for
> portraying Michael Bauer for 16 years on the CBS soap opera
> "Guiding Light," died Jan. 9 at his Santa Barbara home. He
> had been battling lung cancer and aplastic anemia.
>
> After joining "Guiding Light" in 1968, Bauer was once voted
> the most popular actor in daytime television...
> After leaving "Guiding Light" in 1984, Stewart moved to
> California. His nearly 20 films include "Lost" (1983),
> "American Ninja" (1985) and the television movie "The Betty
> Ford Story" (1987).
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-pas> sings19.3jan19,0,7775034,print.story?coll=la-home-obituaries
>
> (Free registration may be required to view the above
> location.)
>

He came back for one of Guiding Light's anniversary shows,
and from what I understand, he asked the powers-that-be
at Procter & Gamble to let him be a writer or producer, that
he had some ideas that might boost the show's sagging ratings.
He was refused. Writing Mike and his daughter Hope out of
the show was just the first of many things that have led to
GL's ratings problems.