Peter Hansen, an Emmy-winning actor who played lawyer Lee Baldwin on the daytime soap opera "General Hospital", died Sunday, April 9, 2017, in Santa Clarita, California, according to multiple news sources.
Hansen also helped launch the "General Hospital" spinoff "Port Charles" in 1997. He lasted appeared on the ABC sudser in 2004, for the funeral of beloved matriarch Lila Quartermaine.
His big break came in 1980, when he was cast as General Hospital's addiction counsellor-turned-mayor Lee Baldwin, a role he played on and off for five decades.
Hansen won an Emmy for his alcoholism story line in 1979. He became a contract player with Paramount Pictures and in 1951 he played opposite Barbara Rush in When Worlds Collide, and in the 1952 Western, The Savage, along with Charlton Heston.
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Before landing his General Hospital role, Hansen made a steady stream of appearances on television on such shows as Broken Arrow, Perry Mason, How the West Was Won, Sea Hunt, Science Fiction Theatre, The Lone Ranger, and The Loretta Young Show.
On a 1988 episode of Cheers, Hansen portrayed the chairman of the corporation that owns the bar, and he was the doctor boyfriend of Dorothy (Bea Arthur) who flirted with Blanche (Rue McClanahan), causing all sorts of trouble, on a 1985 installment of The Golden Girls. "He will forever be a part of the #GH legacy".
His wife, Betty, died in 1993. He then shared 24 years as a companion to Barbara Wenzel.
He is survived by his son and daughter and 3 grandkids.
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