Lee Patterson

Active - 1953 - 1990  |   Born - Mar 31, 1929 in Vancouver, British Columbia  |   Died - Feb 14, 2007   |   Genres - Drama, Action, Crime

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Born in British Columbia, Lee H. Patterson attended Ontario college. Briefly a stage manager and theatre publicist, Patterson made his mark beginning in 1951 playing virile American types in British films. His credits from the British phase of his career include Above Us the Waves (1955), Time Lock (1957) and Jack the Ripper (1960). In the U.S. from 1960 onward, Patterson briefly joined the "beach boy" set as preppy private eye Dave Thorne on the weekly adventure series Surfside 6. He later settled into daytime drama, first as Dr. Kevin Cooke in Another World. For well over a decade, Lee H. Patterson was seen as reporter Joe Riley, one-time husband of Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak), on the ABC soaper One Life to Live.

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