Louis Edmonds was born in Louisiana, one of three children. Edmonds was raised Episcopalian, and served as an acolyte during his childhood. He caught the acting bug early on, being fascinated by the films he saw. He graduated college and served in World War II before he was able to make his Broadway debut. He appeared in several Broadway plays including Candide, Maybe Tuesday, and A Passage to India. He played Langley Wallingford on All My Children for over fifteen years, receiving three Emmy nominations for the role. Edmonds was one of only two actors who appeared in both the first and final episodes of Dark Shadows.
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| - Louis Edmonds was born in Louisiana, one of three children. Edmonds was raised Episcopalian, and served as an acolyte during his childhood. He caught the acting bug early on, being fascinated by the films he saw. He graduated college and served in World War II before he was able to make his Broadway debut. He appeared in several Broadway plays including Candide, Maybe Tuesday, and A Passage to India. He played Langley Wallingford on All My Children for over fifteen years, receiving three Emmy nominations for the role. Edmonds was one of only two actors who appeared in both the first and final episodes of Dark Shadows.
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| - Louis Edmonds was born in Louisiana, one of three children. Edmonds was raised Episcopalian, and served as an acolyte during his childhood. He caught the acting bug early on, being fascinated by the films he saw. He graduated college and served in World War II before he was able to make his Broadway debut. He appeared in several Broadway plays including Candide, Maybe Tuesday, and A Passage to India. He played Langley Wallingford on All My Children for over fifteen years, receiving three Emmy nominations for the role. Edmonds was one of only two actors who appeared in both the first and final episodes of Dark Shadows. Castmates remember him as having a "devilish" sense of humour, in complete contrast to the humourless Roger Collins - which could cause some problems when recording, as Alexandra Moltke recalled in 1995: "He would be saying something incredibly droll - or naughty - one minute, and then a cue would be given and he would slip into character, leaving Nancy Barrett and I very much out of character and trying not to laugh at whatever witticism he had just uttered." Openly gay in his private life, in public he remained in the closet until the publication of his biography Big Lou when he was in his 70s. Louis Edmonds died of respiratory failure in 2001 after a period of ill-health.
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