- Philip Carey
Philip Carey (born
July 15 ,1925 ) is an Americanactor .A former
U.S. Marine , Carey has made appearances in films such as "This Woman is Dangerous " withJoan Crawford (1952) "Calamity Jane" (1953), "Pushover " (1954) and "Monster" (1979). Carey played Captain Edward Parmalee on theNBC television series "Laredo", which ran from 1965-1967. He narrated thirty-one episodes of the documentary "Untamed World". He starred asPhilip Marlowe in a 1959 series of the same name.From 1979 until late 2007, he has played the protective Texan patriarch
Asa Buchanan on the ABCsoap opera , "One Life to Live ". Before that, Carey had played four different characters on as many episodes of ABC's "77 Sunset Strip ". Carey's career started with ten characters in ten episodes of the "Ford Television Theatre ", a highly popular drama series of the 1950s.Carey became well-known for a series of
tongue-in-cheek television commercial s forGranny Goose potato chip s, in which he self-identified as "Granny Goose", portraying the company's spokesperson as a toughcowboy .Carey was diagnosed with
lung cancer in January 2006 and underwentchemotherapy .In late March 2007, it was announced that Carey would be exiting "One Life to Live". He had appeared in one episode in 2003 and one episode of "
All My Children " in 2004. He appeared in an additional nine episodes of "One Life to Live" betweenJanuary 3 , 2007 andMay 16 , 2007. Carey turned down an offer to go to recurring status with the show. His character of Asa died off-screen four months later. [ [http://community.tvguide.com/forum.jspa?forumID=700000047 Soaps News Blog | TVGuide.com ] ]He is close friends with his on-screen son
Robert S. Woods . [ [http://soapzone.com/newsroom.php/oltl/news/09-Jun-2008 SoapZone: One Life to Live News & Gossip ] ]External links
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