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Guiding Light CAST - Alan Spaulding
Full detailed profile on Alan Spaulding Played by Ron Raines on Guiding Light Daytime Soap Opera.
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Alan Spaulding
Actor: Ron Raines Who played Alan Spaulding over the yearsJeff Branson (Winter 2004 in flashbacks as a younger Alan) Useful information on Alan Spaulding* Faked the death of Phillip. |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: None
Past: Executive at Spaulding Enterprises
Past: Part owner of the Lewis Construction building
Past: Owner of the Springfield Journal
Past: Board member at Cedars Hospital
Past: President, Spaulding Enterprises
Past: Temporarily owned Lewis Oil
Past: President of Advantage Systems
Past: Owner of the newspaper, 'The Mirror"
ALAN SPAULDING'S HISTORY
Alan first appeared in Springfield in 1977 with his wife Elizabeth with dreams of emulating the success of his father. Despite a continual string of affairs on both sides of the marriage, they adopted Phillip when she couldn't have children. Seeking independence and a career, she alienated Alan, who clung increasingly to their son. They soon struggled for custody after a divorce while Alan, ironically, married Jackie Marler, with no hint that she was Phillip's biological mother. Like most of his relationships, this was doomed to fail and he quickly got caught up in the plots of his underling Roger Thorpe.
In a fluke accident, he crashed on a desert island with Hope Bauer and they began an affair which quickly became marriage when they returned to shore. About that time, his father died and the struggle over his estate began. It was then that Alan discovered that he had a half-sister he never knew, Amanda, who happened to be the heir to the estate. While fighting for his position and warding off blackmailers, he finally had a son of his own, Alan-Michael. Things came to a head when Alan was gripped in a violent confrontation over Roger's misdeeds that left several dead. Although Alan was innocent of murder, he was sentenced to prison for his part and confined for several years.
On release, he took control of Spaulding and began an affair with Trish Lewis. This led to him losing Alan-Michael along with Hope, while Alan tried to save Spaulding through a hostile takeover of Lewis Oil. Things got worse for him when his sister returned to wreak revenge on him for destroying her relationship with her son. At the same time, life with favorite son Phillip was strained by his affair with Beth and plotting with Alexandra.
Things peaked when Alan was turned over to the FBI by his sister for his role in manufacturing biological weapons. To escape, he faked his death and hid in Europe with India, embezzling, stealing art treasures and using Reva as his spy on Springfield. He would return, seducing Vanessa Chamberlin and then casting her aside to marry a comatose Reva after having her children's paternity test faked. Alex and Phillip subverted his return and threw him out of the company. He and Reva left for Mexico before he sent his lover Blake to Phillip to spy on him. Reva discovered his affair and left him, but not before her run-ins with Josh's wife Sonni left Alan shot and paralyzed. He recovered quickly, but didn't let on until the return of Roger Thorpe prompted it. With new crimes exposed, Alan was sent back to prison.
Soon released, he made another attempt to take over Spaulding, this time with the help of new lover Tangie, who ended up shooting him before he vanished to the country. There, he discovered an amnesiac Reva and tried to marry her, but she married Buzz instead so he set out to destroy their lives. This was boring and he was soon crippled again when he saved Shayne Lewis' life on a construction site. Discovering that Roger returned to Spaulding, he learned to walk again to seek revenge.
His revenge plans extended to Josh and Reva and involved one of his perfect mates, Annie Dutton. While Annie became increasingly unhinged, Alan did his best to protect her. This ended when she tried to kidnap Lizzie. He had a heart attack soon after and decided to spend more time with his family, particularly Lizzie who he helped through her leukemia. His obsessions with destroying Lewis and saving the family name have reached new extremes recently. Sometimes his plots combine, as when he married Olivia, who he was using to scam Lewis. With her, he found someone almost as devious as himself and would have succeeded in his takeover had Josh not blackmailed him with his father's past as a Nazi sympathizer.
To keep Olivia from going to Phillip, he faked a heart attack, but was found out. He and his son fought over her until Alan resorted to replacing her birth control with placebos. She began to take her revenge and Alan began to lose his memory, suffer hallucinations and panic attacks. He realized that he was being drugged and manipulated by his sister and fought back when he discovered that she was Reva's stalker. He then found out that Gus Aitoro was his son and, since Phillip had proven troublesome, took him under his wing. His disturbed relationship with Phillip has haunted him for most of their lives together as they traded women and business schemes in a continuous dance of self-destruction. As Phillip went mad and was 'murdered' (Alan actually helped him fake his death) Gus became his prime tool, a strategy which ultimately backfired when Gus sided with Harley and Alexandra after discovering his secret.
Things have been worse for Alan lately, as disastrous schemes between he and his sister and the rest of the family have threatened to destroy it. He lost control of Spaulding to Alan-Michael and, in desperation, married Beth, his lost son Philip's wife. Since then, he has spent most of his energy trying to take control of his granddaughter's life and preserve the family line by any means possible. Things got severely out of hand and, sadly, left Tammy Winslow dead when he tried to take out Jonathan Randall. Subsequently, Jonathan and Alan's granddaughter were believed dead in a car accident (it was a fake). Now a suspect in Tammy's death, Alan agreed to DA Doris Wolfe's blackmail of a marriage proposal. The wedding came fast and left Alan with a bullet in his guts. He kept silent for some time before revealing that Doris' daughter, Ashlee, had shot him. He used this to get out of the marriage and then began to clean house. He engineered Alan-Michael's fall from power and then sent him away in disgrace. After spending a few months in power, Beth left him before they could reunite. He turned to concentrating on his family, most notably Gus and his new found son.
PAST MARRIAGES
Elizabeth Granville Spaulding (divorced)
Jacqueline "Jackie" Scott Marler (divorced - deceased)
Hope Bauer (divorced)
Reva_Shayne_Lewis(annulled)
Olivia_Spencer_Lewis (divorced)
Elizabeth_Beth_Raines_Spaulding (divorced)
Doris Wolfe (divorced)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
Janice Stafford (lovers - deceased)
Jennifer Richards (lovers)
Brandy Shelloe (affair)
Regina Tessori aka Lucia Renaldi (affair)
Diane Ballard (affair - deceased)
Brandy Shelloe (dated)
Hope Bauer (affair)
Rita Stapleton (affair)
Patricia "Trish" Lewis (affair)
Vanessa_Chamberlain_Lewis_Reardon(engaged)
India von Halkein (lovers)
Christina_Blake_Thorpe_Marler (lovers)
Reva_Shayne_Lewis (lovers)
Sonni Carrera (lovers)
Nadine Cooper (lovers - deceased)
Tangie Hill (lovers)
Annie Dutton (engaged)
India von Halkein (lovers)
Olivia_Spencer_Lewis(affair)
Claire Ramsey (lovers)
Elizabeth_Beth_Raines_Spaulding (one-night stand)
RELATIVES
Brandon Spaulding (father - deceased)
Penelope Winthrop Spaulding (mother - deceased)
Alexandra_Spaulding (sister)
Victoria Spaulding (half-sister)
Amanda Wexler Spaulding (half-sister)
Nick McHenry Spaulding (nephew)
Lujack Spaulding (nephew)
Elizabeth_Lizzie_Spaulding(granddaughter)
Alan Cooper "Zach" Spaulding (grandson)
James Spaulding (grandson)
Emma Spencer Lewis (granddaughter)
Sarah Randall (great-granddaughter)
Henry Chamberlain (godfather - deceased)
Roger Thorpe (brother-in-law - deceased)
Harley_Davidson_Cooper_Aitoro (daughter-in-law)
Lillian_Raines (mother-in-law)
CHILDREN
Stillborn son (with Elizabeth)
Phillip Spaulding (adopted son)
Gus_Aitoro (with Regina)
Miscarried son (with Jackie)
Alan-Michael_Spaulding (with Hope)
Miscarried child (with Beth)
PICTURES
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RELATED DAILY UPDATES
Wednesday, August 20 2008: There's Something Wrong With Your Brain.
Alan goes to visit Natalia at her apartment. She worries about her son. He assures her that everything will be alright and he will be back home soon. She doubts it. Gus has come through for him and will come through for her too, he promises. She shows him a picture Rafe drew of her when he was little. He asks her to come out and eat with him. They have a picnic by the water. He tells her that she is one of the few genuinely honest people he knows; he only wishes he could give her proof that Rafe is coming back. "Then it wouldn't be faith," she says. Tired, she lays down and he promises Gus that he will look after her. Natalia wakes from a nap and asks him about his visions. She tells him of her dreams about Gus and how jealous she is that he can still see him. Alan explains that he only hears him and senses his presence. "Sounds beautiful," she says.
Lizzie tracks Alan down while he is in the middle of a meeting at Towers. She asks him to talk. He steps away from the table. She worries about his health and tells him he is sick. "There's something wrong with your brain," she explains. He doesn't believe her. She insists she is trying to help. He still refuses to listen. She tells him not to die and leave her mother, James and Peyton alone.
Rafe finds Alan in the park. They embrace and catch up. Alan is thrilled to see him and tells him that his mother needs him. After a few jubilant moments, Rafe returns to the boarding house. His mother runs into his arms.
Monday, August 18 2008: Help Wanted.
Alex and Dinah go to visit Alan. They wake him up as he sleeps on the couch. They warn him that Jeffrey is trying to build another case against him. Alan isn't worried. Dinah is worried this could end up biting her. "He's just blowing smoke," Alan claims. Dinah hopes it isn't Gus telling him that. He assures her he knows this for a fact.
In the park, Bill insists to Lizzie that her grandfather had a real seizure and needs to be checked out. After he leaves, Jeffrey calls her and she tries to put him off, claiming that she is busy. She sighs and hurries home, informing Alan that she is going to postpone her trip to LA. She needs to take him to the hospital and have him checked out first. He is adamant that he is fine and repeats that his Gus visions are real. She tells him that he should have some tests for Beth and Peyton's sake.
Lizzie takes Alan to the waiting room at Cedars. She fills out the insurance forms while he remembers being there while Gus was dying. She tells him that she wants him to be fine. He thanks her for taking care of him and asks her to wait for him while he's examined. After he goes in, she sits and waits. Bill arrives to check up. He sits to wait and pulls out some cards.
Alan is being examined by Rick. He demands another doctor. Before he can walk out, he spots Lizzie playing cards with Bill and becomes more infuriated. Rick walks out to them and asks them for some of Alan's symptoms. Alan stomps out and begins confronting them, accusing them of trying to have him declared incompetent. He accuses Lizzie of betraying her family and refuses to be part of her scheme. He storms out while Rick trails after him. Bill tells her Alan had no right to act that way. She says that he was right; she went to Jeffrey to rat him out. The only thing standing between her and her daughter is him. But the thought of Alan being sick makes everything else go out the window. She's sick of being alone and if she betrays Alan, she will have no family left. He offers to be there as long as she needs him.
Alan goes home and grimly stares at a photo of Lizzie before tuning it face down.
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