Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep9 – The Trump Card First Aired: 23 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Senator Silverlake is confronted by Chase with the evidence that he was bribed into faking the F.A.A. reports. After he admits the truth, Chase is cleared of being responsible for the crash. Lorraine isn’t happy after Lance reports that Richard is involved with the criminal underworld. Lorraine resists Lance’s advances when he makes a play for her. Gustav and Richard both try and get closer to Francesca so they can get their hands on her share of Falcon Crest. Angela is still able to out maneuver them and get Francesca to sell to her. Maggie learns that her birth father died during the second world war. Greg remains determined to pursue a relationship with Melissa after she tells him she can’t see him anymore.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep8 – Pain and Pleasure First Aired: 16 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela is shocked when she finds out that Francesca has evidence that she is Angela’s half-sister and is entitled to a third of Falcon Crest. Angela tries to make a deal with Francesca to buy her share. Julia shares her concerns with Lucas and when she tries to turn herself in the police refuses to believe she is who she says she is. Chase is helped by Emma get the proof that Buzz Whitehead was bribed into lying to the F.A.A. investigator. Greg is determined to stop Melissa and Cole from getting back together.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep7 – The Intruder First Aired: 9 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Chase, Maggie and Cole learn that Sam Giannini has been murdered. Lance exploits Sam’s murder in the newspaper. Maggie gets a job at Richard’s new radio station. Stephanie arrives in the valley and tells her daughter, Lorraine more about Richard’s past actions. Gustav threatens Mary Giannini and tells her she will end up dead like her husband if she doesn’t sell the property to him. Chase is furious that somebody is trying to frame him for causing the plane crash. Francesca Gioberti arrives in the valley.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep6 – Lord of the Valley First Aired: 2 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: When Sam Giannini refuses to sell his land to Gustav, he has Spheeris pay Sam another visit that night. Richard buys the radio station KRDC and makes Frank Taggert the new general manager after firing all the current staff. Chase and Maggie head to New York so they can try and learn more about her real parents. Joel shows Terry the proof that they are still married, and she is forced to hand over another $10,000 to buy his silence. Lorraine Prescott, Richard’s stepdaughter, arrives in the valley. Julia appears to Emma again and asks her for money but also insists she doesn’t tell anyone she has seen her.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep5 – Shadows First Aired: 26 October 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Pamela learns that Richard’s attacker is Padgett. Padgett tries to leave town after failing to eliminate Richard and Gustav is furious that Richard is still alive. Lance becomes publisher at the newspaper. Chase loses his position as head of the airport authority. Maggie is mugged by Joel who needs money to pay his his drugs habit. Joel later gets a job from Cole as the new transportation foreman for the vineyards. Emma thinks she has heard Julia calling her.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep4 – The Outcasts First Aired: 19 October 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela is given a bugged falcon statue by the Cartel and they eavesdrop on her plan to gain control of The New Globe. Joel McCarthy, Terry’s ex husband arrives in the valley and claims that they were never divorced. He wants $25,000 from her to keep the truth a secret. Angela gives evidence to the plane crash investigators which implicates Chase. She later calls in a favor with Senator Silverlake. Angela takes over the newspaper after Emma gives her the stock she has.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep3 – Strangers First Aired: 12 October 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela and Lance work against Chase in the FAA’s investigation into the crash. Buzz Whitehead is bribed by Angela to say that Chase had been drinking prior to the flight and had also ignored the fuel leak warning on the plane. Chase is determined to find out the truth about what happened and vows to make Richard pay if he finds out the Cartel are responsible. Gustav shows up in the valley determined to get his hands on the treasure buried under Falcon Crest. Angela, Lance and Greg work together to gain control of The Globe from Richard. After Maggie’s father shows up for a visit, Angela reveals to her that she is really adopted.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep2 – Father’s Day First Aired: 5 October 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Chase suffers with nightmares about the crash and is concerned that he could have done more to bring the plane into land safely. Greg Reardon is offered a job by Angela as her new lawyer and promises to help launch his political career in one year if he takes the position. Spheeris points a gun at Richard as he gets into his car. Richard refuses to help the Cartel get Falcon Crest. As Johann gets into his limousine it instantly explodes while Gustav watches pleased that his father is dead.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep1 – Requiem First Aired: 28 September 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Melissa and Cole wait at the rescue site as helicopters arrive with the survivors from the plane crash. Angela says that Philip is dead after being brought in. Michael is also revealed as having perished. Richard believes that the Cartel was responsible for what happened as Chase maintains convinced the plane was sabotaged. Angela thinks Chase is responsible for what happened and vows to make him pay. Linda is in a critical condition at the hospital and Cole makes plans with her for their future. Linda tells Cole how much she loves him and then passes away in his arms. Terry finds out that she is now a rich woman. The Cartel meet in Buenos Aires where Johann reveals that the ultimate goal is to reclaim a valuable Third Reich treasure buried under Falcon Crest.
Here is the list of many of the resources used to build the Simon MacCorkindale Fan Page. Everything listed here I have a physical copy of in full or part.
Television fans around the country were saddened by the news that Casualty star Simon MacCorkindale passed away in the arms of his beloved wife actress Susan George. He was just 58.
Brave Simon, who played Dr Harry Harper, had chosen to keep the severity of his illness a secret and tried to carry on with his life and work, as normally as possible.
‘Casualty’ and ‘Dynasty’ star SIMON MacCORKINDALE 1952-2010
Wife Susan George pays moving tribute as he loses cancer battle
Much-loved actor Simon MacCorkindale died of cancer in the arms of his wife Susan George last week, at the age of just 58.
The former Casualty star died in a London clinic after a brave four-year fight against a disease that he refused to let dominate his life.
In a moving tribute to her beloved husband of 25 years, actress Susan said: “To me, he was simply the best of everything, and I loved him with all my heart He will live on in me forever”
Urbane British leading man who co-starred in Death on the Nile and was a stalwart of the long-running medical drama Casualty
Simon MacCorkindale was a classically handsome, rugged and urbane English leading man who had recurring roles in the glossy US soap opera Falcon Crest (1984-86) and more recently in the long-running British medical drama series Casualty (2002-08). He appeared in more than 200 episodes.
CASUALTY actor Simon MacCorkindale has died at 58 after a four-year battle with cancer.
Simon who played dashing Dr Harry Harper for six years passed away in the arms of his actress wife Susan George in a London clinic on Thursday night.
Susan, 60, said last night: “No one could have fought this disease any harder than he did. “He was the best of everything and I loved him with all my heart.”
Suave actor known for his roles in Falcon Crest and Casualty
In common with his contemporaries Jeremy Irons, Michael York and Hugh Grant, the actor Simon MacCorkindale, who has died of cancer aged 58, on screen projected the very English persona of an ex-public schoolboy. But unlike them, MacCorkindale never made it big in films. Nevertheless, his “posh” accent, his suave demeanour and patrician good looks made him a natural for roles in television soap operas, from the opulent mansions of Falcon Crest (1984-1986), to the hospital corridors of Casualty (2002-2008). In the latter, he played the autocratic clinical consultant Harry Harper, who ran Holby City hospital’s emergency department. A doctor of the old school, he sweeps through the wards, advising, cajoling, admonishing and seducing colleagues and patients alike.
THE actor Simon MacCorkindale has died after a four-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. The 58-year-old, who had a wide-ranging career including six years in the BBC medical drama Casualty as Dr Harry Harper, died on Thursday in the arms of his wife, the actress Susan George at a London clinic.
Miss George said: “To me, he was simply the best of everything, and I loved him with all my heart. He will live on in me forever.”
Actor who specialised in handsome, roguish charmers and was once hailed as the new Errol Flynn
SIMON MacCORKINDALE, the actor, who died on October 14 aged 58, built a 30-year stage and television career playing handsome, often roguish, charmers – most recently the consultant Harry Harper in the popular BBC hospital drama Casualty.
Early in his career, his talent for playing stiff-upper-lipped romantic leads won him flattering accolades such as “Boy’s Own Brit”. He was acclaimed as a new Errol Flynn or David Niven, whose “flawless looks, perfect features, perfect hair, perfect skin” were admired by one breathless female critic in The Sunday Telegraph
CASUALTY star Simon MacCorkindale died peacefully in his wife’s arms after bravely battling cancer in secret.
Devastated actress Susan George said yesterday: “No one could have fought this disease any harder. To me, he was simply the best of everything, and I loved him with all my heart.”
The suave actor, whose wide-ranging career also took in US shows Manimal and Falcon Crest, died on Thursday night aged 58.
Simon, star of Casualty, dies in arms of his wife Susan George
SIMON MacCorkindale, the film star who became a stalwart of the BBC drama Casualty, has died after a four-year battle with cancer.
The 58-year-old died in the arms of his wife, Susan George, at a clinic in Harley Street.
In a statement released last night, the actress said: ‘No one could have fought this disease any harder than he did since being diagnosed four years ago.
‘He fought it with such strength, courage and belief. Last night, he lost this battle, and he died peacefully in my arms.
This interview was carried out with Simon on the 10th February at the London Palladium. There is a video message that was filmed at the same time and audio can be found on the forum – in Simon’s Secret Society. This is Simon in his own words (i.e. typed word for word what he said)
001 – What’s next I really don’t know is the answer. I’m doing a couple of things, there are a number of things being talked about, but nothing that’s absolutely carved in granite. I’m gonna do another day on another movie, literally next week, for a friend, the same sort of set up as that other one, who’s title I think is the one you saw.
Theatre includes: as director, Sleuth (Texas and California), A Doll’s House (Dramalogue Award as Best Director, Matrix, Hollywood) and The Merchant of Venice (The Globe, Hollywood); as actor, Gayden Chronicles (Los Angeles), Macbeth (Ludlow Festival), Relatively Speaking (Questors and Oakington), Dark Lady of the Sonnets (NT), French Without Tears (Thorndike, Leatherhead), B-B-Que (Soho Polytechnic), Pygmalion (Albery), The Happiest Days of Your Life (Oakington), Potsdam Quartet (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford), Back to Methuselah (Shaw Festival), Bequest to the Nation, The Front Page, Getting On and Journey’s End (Belgrade, Coventry) and, most recently, The Unexpected Guest and Sleuth (national tours).
IT has more twists than a 1960s dance festival and – if done properly – a jaw-dropping surprise. Sleuth, which opens at Theatre Royal in Newcastle tonight, is a cat and mouse thriller which continually wrong-foots audiences – if they haven’t seen it before, of course.
Simon MacCorkindale, who stars in Anthony Schaffer’s award-winning play alongside former Dynasty actor Michael Praed, reckons there are still plenty of Sleuth novices around.
The big interview Simon MacCorkindale has rubbed shoulders with tinseltown’s elite but is just as happy on stage in Glasgow
WHEN Simon MacCorkindale watches hit US shows like Lost, Ugly Betty or Pushing Daisies he can say: “Been there, done that.”
The veteran actor might be best known as Casualty heart-throb Harry Harper but his long and successful career saw him cross the Atlantic and crack America 30 years ago.
This is an ever growing list of everything Simon MacCorkindale has appeared, produced, directed or provided voiceover for. This is the most extensive filmography of Simon online.
But not just on TV— in real life, accident-prone actor often finds himself in hospital
THERE’S a reason why Simon MacCorkindale carries off the role of consultant Harry Harper in BBC’s Casualty so well — he’s never out of his local hospital’s casualty department as a patient!
He and his wife, actress Susan George, run a very successful horse farm when not appearing on stage or screen, and Simon is very much hands-on down on the farm.
