Michael Levin, Actor, Ryan’s Hope, Died at 90
Michael LevinAn actor most well-known for his role as Jack Fenelli, a reporter during the entire 13 year run of daytime soap operas Ryan’s HopeOn January 6, 2016, he died from natural causes. He was 90 years of age.
Levin’s son, Jason Levin, confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter Friday.
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Ryan’s Hope The series aired from 1975-1989 on ABC. Levin was a guest star in 1,075 episodes. Only Helen Gallagher and Bernard Barrow, along with Nancy Addison, were the other co-stars. Levin was nominated as a Daytime Emmy nominee for outstanding actor in a daytime drama series between 1978 and 1980.
Barrow and Gallagher played Johnny and Maeve Ryan, a traditional husband-wife couple who owned a tavern just across the street from a Manhattan Hospital. The soap showed cultural clashes between the couple and their more free-spirited adult children, who also lived in the city. Levin’s character, Fenelli, was known as a fiery reporter who exposed a blackmail scandal in the Ryan family and became a love interest of the couple’s daughter, played by Kate Mulgrew.
Levin also appeared on John Eldridge’s daytime soaps. As the World Turns And Dr. Tim Gould. All My Children. He also appeared on episodes of N.Y.P.D., The Equalizer, Law & Order And New York News.
In 1965, he starred on Broadway. The Royal Hunt of the Sun as well as in three plays in 1970: Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real (opposite Al Pacino), Sam Shepard’s Operation Sidewinder and Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman from Setzuan.
He was born Minneapolis, Minn. He was married and had two kids.
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