11 Facts About Lee Patterson

Lee Patterson was a Canadian film and television actor.

Lee Patterson moved to the UK, where he specialised in playing virile American types in British films.

Lee Patterson left but returned to the UK to appear as hard-bitten navigation expert Captain Randolph Southard in the play version of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial at The Queen's Theatre, London, directed by Charlton Heston in 1985.

Lee Patterson played Tom Kirk in the episode "Behind the Moon" and Jeff Warren in "Sign of the Kodiak", a reference to the Kodiak bear.

Early in 1966, Lee Patterson appeared as Dan Thorne in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Midnight Howler".

Lee Patterson remained in One Life to Live until 1970, when his character Joe Riley was presumed dead; he returned to the show in 1972 and remained the romantic lead until 1979, when he left due to his unhappiness with the direction the show took after Doris Quinlan left to produce NBC's troubled serial The Doctors.

Lee Patterson then joined the cast of NBC's Another World and Texas in the role of Dr Kevin Cooke.

Lee Patterson stayed until 1981, when the show was revamped to bring up its poor ratings against the number-one daytime program, ABC's General Hospital.

Lee Patterson returned to One Life to Live as Joe's twin brother, Tom Dennison, from 1986 until 1988.

Lee Patterson died in Galveston, Texas, of congestive heart failure with complications from lung cancer and emphysema, on 14 February 2007; he was aged 77.

Lee Patterson's death was not reported for nearly a year.