After a few years of almost no work -- although he was a guest star on Lou Grant and Charlie's Angels in the late 1970s, he once summed up the 1970s as ``I cried and did a lot of gardening'' -- he was hired in 1979 for his best-known role, self-made millionaire Palmer Cortlandt on ABC's long-running soap opera All My Children. Initially hired for only one year, he remained on contract through 2009. For much of his first decade on the show, Palmer was a ruthless villain, totally possessive of his daughter, Nina and violently threatening his ex-wife Daisy with being attacked by dobermans when she came back from the dead.
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