Randolph Mantooth

: Starring in "Morning After Grace" at the Purple Rose Theater. [December 2016]

In remission from cancer (unspecified) for which he completed treatment in 2015. He revealed on his Facebook page that his sister, Nancy Jean Mantooth Dehoyos, had died of cancer that same year.

Bought a 13-1/2 acre ranch in the Lobo Canyon area of Agoura, California in the mid-1970s that was later destroyed by the devastating "Malibu Fire" on October 15, 1978.

Randy has frequently returned to his theater roots in such productions as "Footprints in Blood", "Back to the Blankets", "Wink Dah", "The Independence of Eddie Rose", "The Paper Crown", "The Inuit" and, most recently, "Rain Dance" off-Broadway in 2003.

Divorced from actress Rose Parra, he married actress Kristen Connors in 2002.

His 7th out of his 9th year participating in an Annual All-Star-Game in Szot Park in Chicopee, Massachusetts. [July 2000]

Mantooth and fellow Emergency! (1972) actors, Kevin Tighe, Robert Fuller, and Julie London (Troup's widow), attended co-star Bobby Troup's funeral on 22 February 1999.

In 1997, he made a guest appearance on Diagnosis Murder (1993) starring Dick Van Dyke, which reunited him with former Emergency! (1972) co-star Robert Fuller.

The soap was later revamped and entitled The City (1995) but it lasted only two more years.

Mantooth's aunt was Margie Casey, a public school teacher and elementary school principal. She retired in 1989 and died of cancer in 2012, aged 87.

He played "Clay Alden" in the soap opera Loving (1983) from 1987 through 1990, then left for personal reasons before returning to the show in 1993, this time in the role of "Alex Masters".

After a career lull in the early 1980s, Randy found a new direction in his career with daytime soaps.

As a change of pace, he tried comedy and earned series roles on the short-lived Operation Petticoat (1977) and Detective School (1979), as well as pursued the guest star route on episodics.

He was also prominently seen in the high-profile mini-series Testimony of Two Men (1977) and The Seekers (1979).

Mantooth was considered for the part of Seismologist "Walt Russell" in Earthquake (1974). In the end, however, Kip Niven won the part.

Randolph Mantooth definitely fit the bill when he made a bankable name for himself in the TV medical series Emergency! (1972) as strong but sensitive paramedic/firefighter "John Gage".

This led to TV stardom on the popular "Emergency!" series in 1972 which ran over five seasons.

After the death of his real-life father, Mantooth became closer to Julie London, whom he first met in 1971 on Emergency! (1972). He reportedly came to regard her as a kind of surrogate mother.

Lifelong friend of Robert Pratt, they met in 1970, when they were both contract players at Universal Studios.

(1969).

He slowly built up his resume with work on such dramatic series as Adam-12 (1968), McCloud (1970), Alias Smith and Jones (1971) and Marcus Welby, M. D.

From there he has regularly appeared on General Hospital (1963), One Life to Live (1968) and As the World Turns (1956), where he has played both good guys and villains.

As a teenager, he was a fan of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) and The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961).

Millennium credits film include featured roles in the romantic comedy It Started with a Kiss (1959), the action thriller Agent Red (2000), the social drama Price to Pay (2006), the romantic thriller He Was a Quiet Man (2007), the action adventure Bold Native (2010) and, his last to date, the horror yarn Killer Holiday (2013).

On TV, he has had regular roles on the daytime soap dramas As the World Turns (1956) in 2003-2005 and One Life to Live (1968) in 2007.

Tall, dark and good-looking, Randy is of Seminole Indian heritage, born in Sacramento, California on September 19, 1945. One of four children born to a construction engineer, his childhood was somewhat physically unsettling in that his father's job career had the family moving frequently from state to state. Randy attended San Marcos High School in the Santa Barbara area of California where he participated in school plays. He received a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York following his studies at Santa Barbara City College. Randy was discovered in New York by a Universal talent agent after performing the lead in the play "Philadelphia, Here I Come" and returned to California.

Randolph's great-great grandfather Robert Mantooth (b. 1825 in Cocke County, Tennessee) served as a Confederate soldier in the 60th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (Crawford's) (79th Infantry) in the War Between the States. Robert's brothers (or cousins) John and James served in the same unit.