Lee Patterson

Lee Patterson was a Canadian actor who built a career on both sides of the Atlantic, first specializing in virile American types in British films of the 1950s and 1960s such as The Good Die Young (1954), Above Us the Waves (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956) and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960). He moved to the United States in the early 1960s and worked mainly in television, playing the detective Dave Thorne in Surfside 6 and guesting on The Alaskans, Combat! and Perry Mason. He also appeared in daytime serials, playing Brad Kiernan in The Nurses before joining the cast of One Life to Live as Joe Riley, a role he played into the late 1970s with a break in between. He later worked on Another World and Texas and appeared in Chato's Land (1972) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). He died in 2007.