Cast & creator
David Lewis
Best known for Perry Mason, Perry Mason, Perry Mason
David Lewis (October 19, 1916 – December 11, 2000) was an American actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was best known for being the original actor to portray Edward Quartermaine from 1978 to 1993 on the American soap opera General Hospital. Lewis was a pioneering actor in television, his first televised role occurring in 1949 on the show Captain Video and His Video Rangers. His credits include appearing in seven episodes of Perry Mason and in the recurring role of Warden Crichton in Batman. Lewis appeared on daytime T.V., making his soap debut on Love of Life as a murderer and later playing patriarch Henry Pierce on Bright Promise. Brief guest stints on The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives followed. In 1978, he joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Edward Quartermaine, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama in 1982. Lewis took time off between 1987 and 1988 for medical recovery and departed in 1989 during which time Edward was believed to be dead. Lewis continued to come to the studio, however, to tape his voice so wife Lila could have conversations with him. Lewis made his comeback in November 1991 when Edward came back from the dead and in the summer of 1993, Lewis announced he was retiring permanently.
Also known as: David Paul Lewis
18
film credits
52
television credits
69
1940–1979 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (70)
Showing 70 of 70 credits
Perry Mason
George Alder
1957Perry Mason
John Gifford
1957Perry Mason
Deputy D.A. Mark Hanson
1957Perry Mason
Albert McCann
1957Perry Mason
Luke Balfour
1957Perry Mason
A. K. Dudley
1957Perry Mason
Wallis Lamphier
1957
The Andy Griffith Show
Dr. Harrison Everett Breen
1960
Ironside
1967
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Bewitched
1964
The Rockford Files
Burton Woodruff
1974
Batman
Warden Crichton
1966
Cannon
David Warren
1971
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Robert Coneely
1961
Robert Montgomery Presents
Steve
1950
Studio One
1948Studio One
Narrator
1948Studio One
Edmund Taylor
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
Albert Brisbane
1948
Ben Casey
1961
Barnaby Jones
Leonard
1973
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Chaplain Franklin
1964
Run for Your Life
The Consul
1965Run for Your Life
Miller
1965
That Girl
1966
One Step Beyond
Dr. Edward Brown
1959One Step Beyond
Dr. Grimes
1959
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Dr. Kranz
1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Alan Brossanquet
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre
R. Randolph Wetherill
1963
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Jim
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ed Boling
1955
M Squad
Jerry Kane
1957
Good Times
1974
The Millionaire
Dave Scott
1955
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Auctioneer
1974
Lights Out
1949
The Farmer's Daughter
1963
The New Breed
Maury Keeler
1961The New Breed
Townsend
1961
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Ambassador Haviland
1976
The Great Adventure
Dr. Bartlett
1963
Pete and Gladys
1960
Cain's Hundred
Martin Allard
1961
The Dakotas
1963
The Apartment
Al Kirkeby
1960
Man with a Camera
Carl Baines
1958
Harrigan and Son
1960
Johnny Midnight
1960
Love on a Rooftop
1966
Kate McShane
1975
Peter Loves Mary
1960
The Boston Strangler
Judge Schroeder
1968
The Absent-Minded Professor
General Singer
1961
All This, and Heaven Too
Associate Producer
1940
Kid Galahad
Otto Danzig
1962
The Spiral Road
Maj. Vlormans
1962
Cleopatra Jones
Minor Role (uncredited)
1973
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Cronkite
1965Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Justice Hughes
1977
The Scarlet Hour
Dr. Sam Lynbury
1956
A Girl Named Tamiko
US Consul R.C. Harcourt
1962
Nero Wolfe
Mr. Althaus
1979
Generation
Arlington
1969
That Certain Feeling
Joe Wickes
1956
Standing Tall
Judge Lang
1978
Mean Dog Blues
Dr. Caleb Odum
1978
Honeymoon Hotel
Mr. Hampton
1964
The Doomsday Flight
Mr. Rierdon
1966