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Frank Hursley was a graduate of the University of Michigan (A.B. 1925). He left his first wife, Madeleine, and their one-year-old son, Frank Jr., both of Detroit, and became an English professor at the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee Extension. After Doris's divorce in 1935 from her first husband, Colin Welles, she married Frank Hursley in ...
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- Frank M. Hursley, November 21, 1902, Canada
- Television screenwriter
- February 3, 1989 (aged 86), Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Doris Hursley was the co-creator of the ABC soap opera General Hospital along with her husband Frank Hursley. Frank and Doris were writers for the show "Have Gun, Will Travel" and gained popularity after writing for the serial "Search for Tomorrow" before creating another serial and becoming head writers for that show, "General Hospital", from 1963 to 1973. At that time, they turned the show ...
General Hospital: Created by Doris Hursley, Frank Hursley. With Maurice Benard, John Beradino, Rachel Ames, Laura Wright. Families, friends, enemies, and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate city of Port Charles, New York, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner, and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
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"General Hospital" was created by husband-and-wife soap writers, Frank and Doris Hursley, and premiered April 1, 1963. In 1978, Gloria Monty was brought in as executive producer and is credited with the creation of the first super-couple, Luke and Laura Spencer.
Apr 1, 2023 · April 1, 2023 10:50AM. THE 1960s. GH was the brainchild of real-life spouses Frank and Doris Hursley, who cut their teeth as writers in the TV business on series like LASSIE and HAVE GUN, WILL ...
Jul 29, 2013 · Frank Hursley, AB ’25, and his wife, Doris, created “General Hospital.”. Among television’s early titans, Frank was a pioneer who helped create the “soap opera.”. To his estranged relatives in Birmingham, however, Frank was simply the mysterious and ever-absent Grandfather Hursley. “General Hospital” debuted in April 1963; it is ...
Show history Origins. General Hospital was created by Frank and Doris Hursley and premiered on April 1, 1963, replacing the canceled game show Yours for a Song.The first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital, in an unnamed midsize Eastern city (the name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until the late 1970s by headwriters Eileen and Robert Mason ...
