Credits Peter Graves as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
Lynda Day George is an American actress, best known for her role as Lisa Casey on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. She was born Lynda Day George on December 11, 1944 in San Luis Obispo, California, the daughter of a homemaker and a doctor. She has two older sisters. George attended San Luis Obispo High School, where she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen. She then studied drama at the University of California, Los Angeles.
After graduation, she began her acting career with guest roles on such television shows as Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, and The Virginian. In 1971, she landed the role of Lisa Casey on The Young and the Restless, which she played until 1974. George has also appeared in the films The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Airport 1975 (1974), and The Hindenburg (1975). She was married to actor Christopher George from 1961 until his death in 1983.
The couple had two children. George has been married to actor Michael Callan since 1985.
General Info
Full Name
Lynda Day George
Profession
Actor
Nationality
American
Family
Spouse
Doug Cronin, Christopher George, Joseph Pantano
Children
Nicky George, Casey George
Accomplishments
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Movies
Chisum, Day of the Animals, Pieces, The Graduates of Malibu High, Beyond Evil, Mayday at 40,000 Feet!, Once an Eagle, Mortuary, Fear No Evil, It Happened at Lakewood Manor, Murder at the World Series, The Junkman, The Return of Captain Nemo, The Outsider, She Cried Murder, Racquet, Aliens from Space...
TV Shows
Rich Man, Poor Man, Mission: Impossible, The Silent Force, Roots
If the ozone layer goes, so do crops, fish, healthy people and animals.
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Age is the great leveler.
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Show the movie to seven people in the room, and you'll get seven different opinions. Who knows why, and who cares.
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I always thought of Mission: Impossible (1966) as a very Republican show. Well, I was more than okay with that, because that's pretty much where I was politically. I don't think that's where Lesley Ann Warren was though. I love Lesley. She's a terrific actress, but she was really out of place on that show. I mean, Lesley Ann Warren's being on "Mission: Impossible" was like a Democrat being at a Republican convention.
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The 1930s, '40s, and '50s was when they made real motion-pictures [sic]. I don't have one film in my personal collection made after the 1960s. The reason for that is since the 1960s, most of the films we've been making aren't motion-pictures [sic]. That's primarily because we're so interested in invading the privacy of our characters.
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Television ratings? I think they're kind of pointless. Are we talking about something we can have with meals, or are we talking about something... what is this? I'm not sure I understand that at all. Seems like a wasted gesture unless they're planning on putting on a lot of nudity. Which is probably what they're planning. I mean, God, let's show some more boobs. Geez! Just what we need. I mean it's incredible. It's really amazing. So, I don't think very much of TV ratings. I haven't had any cause to so far. I don't know if they actually mean anything to anyone.
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Having a Broadway credit is nice, but when you get right down to it, it's just another play. It's just a play. It's just entertainment. In the big picture, is this play, is any play, is any movie or TV show, really all that important?
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I never kidded myself about what I did as an actress. I never pretended that what I was doing was some great art form. When you start thinking you're great, that's when your integrity goes by the wayside. That's when you lose touch with the common folk. Well, when you lose touch with the common folk, when you start thinking that you're bigger and better than them, that's when you lose touch with reality. I could never think that way. As far as I'm concerned, I am the common folk. I am the common man, and the common man is me.
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Somehow or other in this country of ours, we need to, just as citizens, we need to be able to divorce ourselves from our political affiliation, and our need to follow the party line, because therein is the destruction of our individuality. When we are so immersed in that system, that we're unable to make rational decisions or to look at a situation that is ultimately and obviously a beneficial situation, and not be able to agree with it simply because it is proposed by a person of a different party... that's beyond belief for me. It's just completely outside any kind of rational thinking as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't make sense. Unfortunately, I don't believe that we're smart enough to be able to operate in a situation like that.
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I am the common man. I am the common man. And the common man is me. When you start thinking you're great, when you start thinking you're bigger and better than anybody else, that's when your integrity falls by the wayside. I find that offensive. I find it repulsive when people think they're bigger and better than the truth.
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Credits Peter Graves as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
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She initially had dreams of becoming a surgeon but gave way to modeling and acting.
