Charles Keating, who has died aged 72 after a long illness, was a distinguished and dashing actor on Broadway and with the Royal Shakespeare Company forming part of the maverick director Buzz Goodbody's company at The Other Place, the alternative RSC venue she launched at Stratford-upon-Avon in the early 1970s before finding fame and fortune in American television daytime soaps.
The most prominent of these soaps was NBC's Another World, the channel's highest-rated daytime drama, in which Keating played Carl Hutchins, a reformed villain knocking around the lives and intrigues, domestic and commercial, of suburban society in the Midwestern town of Bay City; Keating served two major stints in the 1980s and 1990s in a series that ran for 35 years, receiving four Daytime Emmy nominations and the best actor award in 1996.
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