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Bradford Anderson

Bradford Anderson does the job that gets the least respect and demands the most stamina: American daytime soap. He played Damian Spinelli on General Hospital, and on the 2007 spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift, and collected five Daytime Emmy nominations for the role.

Spinelli was an unusual thing to put into a soap. The genre runs on grief, betrayal and long-held secrets, and it rarely makes room for a character whose job is to be funny. A comic part in that setting becomes either the most beloved element of the show or the most resented, and Anderson's landed on the right side of that line for years. Playing broad comedy at soap volume, opposite actors doing high melodrama, without breaking the world around you, is a real skill and an almost invisible one.

The rest of the page is thin, which is what a daytime contract does to a resume; the schedule leaves no room for anything else. American Pie Presents: Beta House in 2007 and the short-lived 2015 Minority Report series are the whole of it. General Hospital itself is not among the credits listed here.

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Where to start with Bradford Anderson

There is one obvious way in and this page cannot quite provide it, since the defining work is General Hospital, which is not among the credits listed here. The nearest available thing is General Hospital: Night Shift, the 2007 spin-off, which carries the same character over and is a far smaller commitment than a daytime serial with decades behind it. Start there.

Minority Report is the other one worth a look, a network science-fiction series that never found its footing but gave him a proper supporting role outside daytime. American Pie Presents: Beta House is a direct-to-video teen comedy and is exactly as good as that sounds. Beyond those three, the honest answer is to go and watch a soap.

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