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Up for sale VINTAGE! “Guiding Light” Gil
Rogers Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo . This piece is certified
authentic by Professional Autograph Authentication Service (PAAS) and comes
with their Certificate of Authenticity and matching hologram.
– March 2, 2021) was an American actor. Rogers was born on February 4, 1934
in Lexington, Kentucky, where
he was raised, as John Veach Rogers Jr. Rogers graduated from Henry Clay High School and
then attended Harvard University majoring
in chemistry, but later after deciding he wanted to pursue a career as an
actor, transferred to Transylvania University because
it had a drama department; he would later graduate from there. Rogers began
acting as a child in Lexington Children's Theatre. Rogers received his equity
card in 1955 while working in local theater in Lexington. He would go on to
perform in hundreds of plays in summer stock and regional theater. His most
notable theater roles include Broadway productions of The Great White Hope, The Corn is Green and for 2 1/2 years played Sheriff
Ed Earl Dodd in The Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas. He is perhaps best known for his
roles on several daytime dramas, most notably as Ray Gardner on All My Children and Hawk Shayne on Guiding Light. He also starred in a series of Grape-Nuts cereal commercials that ran on television for
5 years. His film roles include Eddie Macon's Run, W.W. and the Dixie
Dancekings and the cult horror film The Children. Rogers died in his sleep
at his daughter's residence on March 2, 2021, at the age of 87.
