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All My Children CAST - Adam Chandler
Full detailed profile on Adam Chandler Played by David Canary on All My Children Daytime Soap Opera.
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Adam Chandler
Actor: David Canary Who played Adam Chandler over the yearsDavid Canary (fall 1984 - present) Useful information on Adam Chandler* Marital Status - Married (Krystal Carey). |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: Co-Owner and Co-CEO of Chandler Enterprises
Current: Owner of IncredibleDreams.com
Past: Owner and operator of "Adam's Place," a bar formerly known as The Pit.
Past: Owner of WRCW
Past: Owner of a fertility clinic
Past: Owner of Tempo Magazine
Past: Producer of the movie "Raising Kane"
ADAM CHANDLER'S HISTORY
It's hard to believe that Adam Chandler, one of Pine Valley's wealthiest men, hails from a place called Pigeon Hollow and has a past working with carnivals. He grew up with Pete Cooney, who later changed his name to Palmer Cortlandt, and the two continued to do battle, but this time in business. Their rivalry began when Pete took an interest in Adam's sister, Charlotte.
Adam has had a long string of romances and marriages, and most have ended in disaster because of underhanded plots, evil schemes and his insatiable need for control. He attempted to swindle Natalie, blackmailed Erica, and tried to drive Dixie, the mother of his son, crazy in order to gain custody of the child.
Liza Colby had her eye on Tad Martin, and Adam wanted Brooke English, so Liza teamed with Adam to destroy the relationship of the two. The plan backfired when their own planned marriage wasn't halted as they hoped, and they ended up legally wed. Although the marriage was a sham, they eventually slept together, and Liza got pregnant. Both were elated and realized they did have feelings for one another. When Liza was traveling on a corporate jet and lost the child because of a mechanical malfunction, she blamed him and filed for divorce.
Stress and unhappiness caused Adam to suffer a stroke, and Liza rushed to his bedside. But both had too much pride to admit how they truly felt, so the divorce was finalized.
Adam's meek and mild twin brother, Stuart, was on the receiving end of Adam's nastiness when he paraded a string of Marian Colby's ex-lovers in front of him to convince Stuart what a tramp she was. It didn't work, and he and Marian wed, and remain happy.
Liza, still grieving for her lost child, convinced Dr. Jake Martin to artificially inseminate her. Adam overheard, bought the clinic and switched his sperm for Jake's. He kept the trade a secret, but was later blackmailed by the evil doctor, David Hayward. Eventually Adam and Liza remarried, and little Colby was born, with Liza still believing that Jake was the father. The truth was eventually revealed.
Adam's previous wife, Dixie, had run off to Europe while pregnant with Tad's child, and was reported killed in a car accident. Adam turned his wrath on the Martin clan for trying to steal his son, JR, but Adam's evil doings turned the young man against him. JR delved into drugs and got into trouble with the law, but met Babe Carey, fell hard, and they wed. Adam enlisted the help of money-hungry, Mary Smythe, to help break them up, feeling that Babe was only interested in the Chandler fortune. She failed.
During an unhappy moment in JR and Babe's marriage, she slept with his half-brother, Jaime, and when her pregnancy test was positive, she didn't know who had fathered the baby. It proved to be JR, and Babe gave birth at the same time that Bianca Montgomery bore her daughter, Bess. The two women were stranded in a mountain cabin, and during a rescue, one baby was presumed killed in the helicopter crash, and Babe, in her delirium, was convinced that she had given birth to a daughter. In truth, the helicopter pilot stole the male child to replace the child his sister had lost, but that's a whole other story on One Life to Live.
While Bianca grieved the loss of her child, JR and Adam doted on little Bess, until the truth was revealed through a series of DNA tests. Bess was eventually returned to her real mother, and Jamie and Babe kidnapped little Adam back from Llanview, but JR won custody through the courts. Babe's mother, Krystal, took responsibility for the kidnapping and ended up in prison. Babe was falling back in love with JR.
Adam was suspicious of the new nanny JR hired to look after little Adam, and Babe, vying for more time with the baby, agreed to help prove Di was a fake if Adam would help get Krystal released from jail. He agreed, and in the end, the nanny, claiming to be Dixie, was revealed for the fake she was. In reality, she was Dixie's sister.
With Adam's political connections, Krystal was released and moved into the Chandler mansion. In a drunken stupor, the two wed, but their animosity toward one another eventually blossomed into true feelings, and to everyone's surprise, they renewed their vows at JR and Babe's remarriage. Adam is happily awaiting the birth of his daughter, Charlotte, clueless to the fact that the baby is actually Tad Martin's.
PAST MARRIAGES
Althea (divorced)
Erica Kane (divorced)
Brooke English (not legal)
Dixie Cooney (invalid)
Natalie Marlowe (not legal)
Erica Kane (vow renewal)
Gloria Marsh (divorced)
Liza Colby (divorced)
Liza Colby (divorced)
Arlene Vaughan (divorced)
Liza Colby (married March 2001 - divorced)
Krystal Carey (vow renewal on 23 March 2006)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
Joy Hawkins
Kay Campobello
Dixie_Cooney_Martin
Arlene Vaughan
Kay Campobello
Mary Smythe
RELATIVES
Stuart Chandler (twin brother)
Charlotte Chandler (sister - deceased)
Ross Chandler (nephew)
Scott Chandler (nephew by adoption)
Julie Rand Chandler (great-niece)
Lorenzo Hector Santos (grandson)
Adam Chandler III (grandson)
CHILDREN
Hayley Vaughan Santos (daughter with Arlene)
Adam Chandler Jr. (son with Dixie)
Anna Claire Chandler (daughter with Gloria - deceased)
Unnamed Child (with Liza - miscarriage)
Colby Marian Chandler (daughter with Liza)
Skye Chandler Quartermaine (previously adopted by Adam and Althea)
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RELATED DAILY UPDATES
Friday, May 16 2008: He Loves Her Not.
At the Chandler mansion, Colby is unhappy with JR because he's sent Adam to Oak Haven. Stuart comes in and doesn't look surprised to hear that Adam is gone. He explains that Adam had told him that Dixie was haunting him. Stuart says that, at Adam's behest, he talked to Dixie and asked her to leave Adam alone. "But I don't think it worked," he says. Suddenly Stuart finds the stuffed giraffe that's been missing for all these years and has now reappeared, and suggests that Dixie might really be haunting the mansion. JR, a non-believer, leaves. Stuart comforts Colby, saying he knows that Adam is going to beat whatever it is that's going on with him. Colby has to leave, but on her way out asks Stuart to take the stuffed elephant back to the Hubbards' house.
Meanwhile in Oak Haven, Adam is ranting and raving at Dixie. A nurse comes in and tells him that's the behavior that landed him there. Adam goes ballistic when he learns that the doctor won't be in to evaluate him until the morning. After the nurse leaves, Adam hears Dixie's voice and she appears, taunting him about being locked up against his will, just as she was. She mocks him and they argue over things that happened years ago. Dixie gets mad and Adam, seeing that he's getting to her, goads her some more. "The man you loved so much is moving on with another woman. Now tell me, does Tad touch Krystal the way he touched you?" Adam sneers. Anger takes control of Dixie. She knocks Adam backward into a chair. "I believe I told you to be quiet!" she says, and a pillow flies across the room, landing pressed up against Adam's face. The nurse and two orderlies burst into the room, just in time to see Adam "trying to suffocate himself." After they leave, Dixie comes back and Adam claims that he'll tell Tad about Kate if she'll help him get out of Oak Haven. But he won't swear to it, so Dixie leaves him alone again.
Thursday, May 15 2008: What If I Don't Want Kids?
Meanwhile, at the Chandler manse, Colby and JR are playing with little A. Colby notices Cassandra's elephant. Adam walks in and JR lays into him about skipping some meetings. Just then Dixie appears, throwing Adam for a loop. JR grabs Cornelius and asks where the toy came from; he doesn't know. Dixie goads him to tell JR the truth and Adam tells her to shut up. JR angrily tells Adam to stop messing with his memories of Dixie. Adam breaks down and says Dixie is haunting him! He gives JR a good-parts version of what Dixie wants, annoying her - and JR. He turns to little A and asks the kiddo to go to the kitchen for a while. Adam demands more answers from Dixie but she just disappears. JR angrily walks back in and as they are yelling at one another, Colby hurries in. Dixie cackles at Adam but no one else hears. Worried, JR tells Colby to call for help. He turns back to Adam, who says Dixie has been torturing him for days. He calmly asks where Dix is; Dixie reappears next to Adam and warns him not to say too much. Colby returns, scared. JR takes her into the hall and then locks Adam in the parlor! Just then, a doctor and two workers arrive from Oak Haven. They return to the parlor as Adam is talking to Dixie and attacking a pillow. Colby begs JR not to send Adam away. Worried about him, the doctor and the two workers haul Adam out as JR and Colby watch. Neither notices that Dixie is standing with them.
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