Gil Rogers

Gil Rogers was an American actor whose career stretched across regional and Broadway stages, daytime television and film. Born in Lexington, he started performing as a child with the Lexington Children's Theatre, then set aside a chemistry major at Harvard for drama at Transylvania University. He got his equity card in 1955 and worked in hundreds of plays, among them Broadway runs of The Great White Hope and The Corn is Green, plus two and a half years in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd. He became best known for soap roles, playing Ray Gardner on All My Children, Hawk Shayne on Guiding Light and Dr. Martin Brandt on The Doctors, and he starred in Grape-Nuts commercials that ran for five years. His film credits included Eddie Macon's Run (1983) and the cult horror movie The Children (1980).