Alex Masters on the ABC Television Network's "The City"
Randolph Mantooth created the role of Alex Masters on "Loving" in 1987 and played it until 1990; and then returned in August, 1993. Alex is at a crossroads, after a failed effort to patch up his marriage. He shows up in New York, where his ex-partner Tony suggests a new start with a PI firm. Alex decides to stick around after laying eyes on Jocelyn Brown, a beautiful young lawyer he had begun to know in Corinth.
Born in Sacramento, California, Randy was three months old when his family moved to Nebraska, his mother's birthplace. Due to his father's job as a pipeline construction engineer, Randy and his family (which includes two sisters and a brother), lived in 23 states by the time he was 16, at which time they resettled in California. During high school in Santa Barbara, he was bitten by the acting bug and performed in several plays both in high school and at Santa Barbara College.
After about a year with a local semi-professional acting company, Randy received a scholarship to the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York from the Santa Barbara Foundation for the Arts. While at the Academy, he won the Charles Jehlenger Award for Best Actor for his role in the play, "Philadelphia, Here I Come," an award which he shared with Brad Davis. Shortly after graduation from the Academy, he was spotted in a play in New York by a Universal Studios talent executive, and was offered a contract.
Randy returned to California and immediately began working in television. Shortly after appearing on the Emmy-nominated "The Bold Ones" (with Hal Holbrook), Randy was chosen to star in the new television series, "Emergency." He played the leading role of Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter/paramedic John Gage for the show's seven-year run.
Following "Emergency," Randy starred in two other television series -- "Operation Petticoat" and "Detective School" -- as well as several TV movies, including his favorite, "The Seekers," a four-hour miniseries that comprised the last part of a John Jakes trilogy. He has also appeared in the miniseries, "Testimony of Two Men," "Vanished" and "Scene of the Crime," and the television movies, "Battlestar Galactica," "Rio Bravos" and "Terror at London Bridge."
Randy moved back to New York to star on "Loving." Alex Masters marked Randy's first daytime role and garnered him Soap Opera Update's MVP Award. While taping "Loving" during the day, Randy often returned to the stage at night, appearing in five off-Broadway plays: "Wink Dah," "The Revelation of Eddie Rose," "The Paper Crown," "Footprints in Blood" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."
Soon after leaving "Loving," Randy headed back west, where he racked up credits on some of television's most popular programs: "L.A. Law," "China Beach," "Murder, She Wrote," "MacGyver," "Baywatch" and "Dallas." He also starred in the short-lived TV series, "Under Cover," and a special with Talia Shire, "Please God, I'm Only 17."
Randy recently returned to the stage, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for the world premiere of "Evil Little Thoughts." He was also recently seen on a national Gap Jeans commercial where he showed off his pool-playing abilities.
Randy has also directed two play readings ("Evil Little Thoughts") and is hoping to get the show produced off-Broadway.
VITAL STATISTICS
BIRTHPLACE: Sacramento, CA BIRTHDATE: Sept. 19
HEIGHT: 6' HAIR: Brown
EYES: Brown
-- 1995-96 --
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