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Raymond Arthur MacDonnell (b. March 5, 1928) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, best known for his role as Dr. Joe Martin on the daytime soap opera All My Children
All My Children

All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
, a role which he has played for 39 years. He is one of only two actors remaining on the show who have played their roles since the show's inception in 1970 — the other being Susan Lucci
Susan Lucci

Susan Victoria Lucci is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning United States actor. Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television....
 (Erica Kane
Erica Kane

Erica Kane is a long-running fictional character from the United States daytime drama All My Children. Along with Joe Martin and his wife Ruth Martin , she is one of three original characters remaining since the series' premiere episode....
). MacDonnell received a Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York, New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles, California-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States daytime television programming....
 award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004 (along with now deceased fellow All My Children castmate Ruth Warrick
Ruth Warrick

Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick , Doctor of Management, Order of Saint John, Regend of Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Dame of Honour and Merit by the Imperial Russian Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Ecumenical Foundation was an American singer, actress and activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children....
).

Prior to appearing on All My Children, he played Philip Capice on the soap The Edge of Night
The Edge of Night

The Edge of Night is a long-running American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then aired on American Broadcasting Company from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984....
 from 1961 to 1969.

In 1967, he played the title role of Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
 in a live-action television pilot
Dick Tracy

File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
.






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Raymond Arthur MacDonnell (b. March 5, 1928) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, best known for his role as Dr. Joe Martin on the daytime soap opera All My Children
All My Children

All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
, a role which he has played for 39 years. He is one of only two actors remaining on the show who have played their roles since the show's inception in 1970 — the other being Susan Lucci
Susan Lucci

Susan Victoria Lucci is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning United States actor. Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television....
 (Erica Kane
Erica Kane

Erica Kane is a long-running fictional character from the United States daytime drama All My Children. Along with Joe Martin and his wife Ruth Martin , she is one of three original characters remaining since the series' premiere episode....
). MacDonnell received a Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York, New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles, California-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States daytime television programming....
 award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004 (along with now deceased fellow All My Children castmate Ruth Warrick
Ruth Warrick

Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick , Doctor of Management, Order of Saint John, Regend of Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Dame of Honour and Merit by the Imperial Russian Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Ecumenical Foundation was an American singer, actress and activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children....
).

Prior to appearing on All My Children, he played Philip Capice on the soap The Edge of Night
The Edge of Night

The Edge of Night is a long-running American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then aired on American Broadcasting Company from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984....
 from 1961 to 1969.

In 1967, he played the title role of Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
 in a live-action television pilot
Dick Tracy

File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
. The show was not picked up.

In 2011, he will celebrate 50 years on daytime television, beginning on The Edge of Night
The Edge of Night

The Edge of Night is a long-running American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then aired on American Broadcasting Company from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984....
 in 1961.

Personal

Raymond Arthur MacDonnell was born on March 5, 1928 in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on the Merrimack River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,043....
. He attended Amherst College
Amherst College

Amherst College is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975....
 and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He is married and has three children.

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