Peter Hansen

Peter Hansen was an American actor whose career spanned decades of film and television. Born in Oakland, California, he broke in with stage work at the Pasadena Playhouse and signed a Paramount Pictures contract in 1950. That same year he took a major part in the Western Branded (1950) opposite Alan Ladd, followed by the science fiction picture When Worlds Collide (1951) and the Western The Savage (1952) with Charlton Heston. He was best known as Lee Baldwin, the lawyer he played on the soap opera General Hospital in stretches running from 1965 to 1986, with brief returns in 1989 and 1990 and a later run from 1992 to 2004, and he took the part to the sister show Port Charles starting in 1997. His daytime work brought him a 1979 Daytime Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He also guest starred on series including The Golden Girls and Cheers.