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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)
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RELATED DAILY UPDATES
Tuesday, September 02 2008: Let's do This.
In New York, Lizzie rushes into the Blackthorn Group offices and discovers Alan and Bill arguing in the hall. She stands back and listens while Alan explains how he will tell everyone about the power of Gus. Bill tells him that he'll ruin his career if he does this; he's a sick man. "Lizzie needs you," Bill says. He'd gladly throw Alan to the wolves, but he won't let him hurt Lizzie like this. He calls security. They grab Alan and drag him off. Lizzie stifles a smile as Bill walks off. A man comes out searching for Spaulding. "I'm Spaulding," Lizzie says, introducing herself and walking into the meeting.
Bill takes Alan back to his hotel room. He orders his jet prepared so that he can take Alan back to Cedars. Alan continues to tell Bill that the investors will flock to him. Lizzie runs in and Alan tells her that Bill is their enemy. Lizzie thanks Bill for what he just did. Alan is baffled. Lizzie tells him that he would have ruined the family name if he had gone into that meeting. Bill could have let him be destroyed, but let him off. She tells Bill that they may soon have a level playing field between them again. Suddenly, Alan drops on the bed.
Alan is taken back to Cedars. Rick examines him. "Your brain is an antique and you've gotta take care of it," he tells Alan. After Alan is taken away, Lizzie worries that she isn't strong enough to help him through this without her mom. "You're not alone," Bill says, hugging her. She tells him that he doesn't have to be there but there's something she needs to tell him... Before she can, Rick runs out and announces that he has to operate. Alan may never be the same again and is refusing to let them operate. "He doesn't want to let go of Gus," she realizes. She goes to his side. Alan talks about seeing Gus. She tells him he needs to stop depending on Gus and have the operation. He says that she is the only person who can help him now and asks her to reach into his pocket. She discovers an old photo of herself. He reminds her that she is the future of Spaulding.
Friday, August 29 2008: As Long as I'm in the car.
Dinah calls Alan while he walks though Central Park. She informs him that her brother is in the city searching for him. She reminds Alan that she isn't doing all of this for him; she's trying to teach her brother a lesson in appreciation. Alan is confident that he still has Gus on his side.
When Bill walks out of the shower, he's surprised to find Alan in the room. He tells him that Lizzie is searching for him. Alan says that he's fine and has an important meeting. He's not trying to get his company back, he assures Bill; it's much bigger than that. Alan prepares for his meeting with the Blackthorne group and tells him that this is not about stocks - it's about faith. He's sure that Bill is jealous of his faith; nothing is impossible for him now. Bill is sure that Alan is crazy and sends him off with a smile.
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