daytime soap

He first appeared on “Days of Our Lives” on Jan. 24, 1986, and went on to establish a long running arc as one of the daytime soap’s most popular characters.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Paige co-starred on daytime soap operas “Capitol,” “General Hospital” and “Santa Barbara.”

It was during his time on the ABC daytime soap that Martin began to reckon with his own sexuality after having fallen in love with — and having his heart broken by — a man for the first time.

Opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie,” he was the obnoxious director of a daytime soap opera that Hoffman’s character joins by pretending to be a woman.

The televised trial of the actor and former football star for the killing of his wife Nicole Brown Smith and her friend Ron Goldman was such a ratings draw it dealt a blow to network daytime soap operas from which they would never recover.