30 years after the end of Falcon Crest: that's how they are and how their protagonists live now

30 years ago, one of the most successful soap operas of the moment, Falcon Crest , was saying goodbye to the small Spanish screen . There were 9 seasons and 227 episodes that catapulted young actors to fame and resurrected old Hollywood legends. LOC reviews what the lives of some of its protagonists have been like since then.

Jane Wyman (Angela Channing)

Several months after her ex-husband Ronald Reagan became president of the United States, Jane Wyman became the new queen of television. Playing the perfidious Angela Channing gave her a new popularity for other generations who could not enjoy her glorious time in the Golden Age of Hollywood thanks to Belinda (1948) - she won the Oscar for best actress - or Panic on the Stage (1949) . In the ninth season, she hardly appeared due to her arthritis and diabetes problems and, contradicting her doctor, she made a last television appearance as the mother of Jane Seymour in Dr. Quinn (1993).

Since 1993 she has been confined at home, but she has come out on three occasions as sad as they are significant: the funerals of her daughter Maureen, Ronald Reagan and her close friend Loretta Young, another Hollywood legend. Actress of character, after finishing the study system she retired from the cinema and, as happened with her contemporaries, she found a well-paid golden retirement with $ 60,000 per chapter (54,000 euros) or $ 1.6 million per season (1 , 4 million euros), which was seven times more than the salary of his ex as president, which amounted to $ 200,000 (180,000 euros). He died at age 90 of natural causes in 2007 at his home in Rancho Mirage (California)

Lorenzo Lamas (Lance Cumson)

In our country he triumphed as 'Lorenzo Lamas, the king of beds' thanks to the famous announcement of the Reig Martí mattresses . Giving life to Lance Cumson in the series made him a sex idol, just like his parents in the cinema, Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl. Famous from the cradle, at the age of 20 he managed to be one of the secondary in the legendary movie Grease .

Playing Angela's grandson has been one of the great achievements of her life since Jane Wyman was one of the close friends of her stepmother, also an actress in musical water movies, Esther Williams. During break times, there were countless battles from the old days of golden Hollywood.

At 188 cm tall and with a muscular body, Lorenzo was one of the most famous television idols of the last decades of the 20th century. He has married five times, including Kathleeen Kinmont, who is a real-life daughter of Abby Dalton (Julia Channing Cumson, her mother in fiction). He has six children and his last wife, Shawna, was a surrogate so that one of the actor's daughters could be a mother.

It only had one more success on television with the series Renegade . Today, almost unrecognizable from countless cosmetic surgeries, but retaining his sex appeal at 62, Lorenzo works as a helicopter pilot for tourists in New York. Despite the fortune he amassed, he twice filed for bankruptcy.

Susan Sullivan (Maggie Gioberti)

Her role as Maggie Gioberti's goodness launched her to planetary fame, but after 207 episodes, she fell into oblivion again. He had to wait for the Castle series (2009-2016) for his name to sound again on the small screen. She was fired at the end of the eighth season of Falcon Crest because she was asking for more money and because of creative differences with the writers and producers. Interestingly, her great mentor was her television enemy Jane Wyman, and two of her best close friends are Robert Foxworth and David Selby. At 77, she has never been married, nor has she had children.

Robert Foxworth (Chase Gioberti)

At 78 years old, the actor continues to work sporadically as a guest in some renowned series or in the cinema, although for a decade he has been mainly dedicated to voicing one of the protagonists of Transformers . Curiously, the interpreter rejected the offer to give life to the evil JR, which ultimately fell to Larry Hagman.

He was at Falcon Crest for six seasons playing Angela's nephew. During filming, he maintained a solid relationship with actress Elizabeth Montgomery, whom everyone remembers as the protagonist of another well-known series, Haunted . After 20 years of living together, they married in 1993, but two years later, the actress died of cancer. He has two children and is married for the third time.

David Selby (Richard Channing)

He is currently 79 years old, has been married to Claudeis Newman since 1963 and has 3 children. After his brief passage through Flamingo Road, he was hired to play the villain Richard Channing (Angela's son) in Falcon Crest, a role that catapulted him to world fame. Of the 227 episodes of the soap opera, the actor appeared in 209. After the end of the series, his name gradually faded, appearing from time to time in some series. One of his biggest concerns is literature, as he has successfully written several plays and poetry books.

Ana Alicia Ortiz (Melissa Agretti)

Born in Mexico City, when she got the role of Melissa at the age of 26, she established herself as one of the best-known faces on the big screen. He achieved what seemed impossible in a time when Hispanics were practically ignored. Previously, she had been one of the protagonists of Halloween II (1981).

It should be noted that during the filming of Falcon Crest he took out another facet of his artistic streak since in four episodes he had the opportunity to sing four songs. But that remained a mere anecdote.

At the end of the series, his name stopped ringing, it stopped appearing on television, he made four films with little impact and in 1997 he retired from acting. She was married to Gary R. Benz between 1994 and 2016, with whom she has two children. He is 63 years old.

William R. Moses (Cole Gioberti)

Considered one of the most attractive actors in the series, Maggie and Chase's son is the only one to have successfully pursued a career on television. After appearing in six of the nine seasons (he appeared as a guest in two more chapters), he starred with Julia Roberts in the film Mystic Pizza . The following year, he starred opposite Raymond Burr in 17 telefilms of The Adventures of Perry Mason and in 1992 joined the cast of Melrose Place. Since then, his face has remained common on the small screen.

On a personal level, his best-known relationship was with actress Tracy Nelson - daughter of singer Ricky Nelson, who died two years before the couple's wedding in 1987 - along with whom she appeared in countless press reports from the heart. They divorced a decade later and have a daughter in common, Remington. The actor remarried and had another daughter.

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