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Y&R Alum Daniel Goddard Joins the Cast of ‘General Hospital’ In New Role

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Former fan favorite from The Young and the Restless, actor Daniel Goddard (ex-Cane Ashby) is returning to daytime soap operas after several years away from the medium. Goddard has been cast in the role of Professor Henry Dalton on ABC’s General Hospital.

In the breaking casting news, Goddard will first appear in his new soap role on the upcoming Tuesday, April 15th episode of General Hospital. According to TV Insider, Daniel actually reported to ABC Prospect Studios where GH is filmed in mid-March and he spoke to the outlet about his latest daytime alter-ego which finds him as an enigmatic Professor who works at Port Charles University.

“He teaches environmental physics, and it seems there are some things in his past that he’s done that have left him in a position of some form of investigation,” teased Goddard. “And from there, it’s an absolute mystery to me.” Daniel admitted he has shared scenes with Eden McCoy (Josslyn) and Finola Hughes (Anna) among others. In story, it also appears that a ‘situation’ involving Professor Dalton may be just the assignment Josslyn has been given in her first as a WSB agent. Stay tuned!

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In addition, once landing the role of Professor Dalton, Goddard wanted to go into it without knowing too much ahead of taping and air. “I said to Frank (Valentini, EP,GH) ‘Don’t tell me anything about the character.’ I know that the characters that I’ve had scenes with know something about him. I don’t want to know what it is because I don’t want to play it that I know. I’d rather have the character be sort of a clean slate to me.”

Goddard added, “At The Young and the Restless, I always used to read the whole script because other characters will talk about you, and you’ll get to know more about you than you know about yourself. At General Hospital, you only get your pages, and I thought, ‘Woody Allen would do that, where he doesn’t want everybody know what’s going on or what the twists and turns are.’ And I thought, ‘This is going to be cool.’ So, I’m allowing myself to go on the journey of who Dalton is from the audience’s perspective, and from my perspective of what is the growth and evolution of him. I will allow it to unfold as the bits and pieces present themselves to me.”

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As it turns out, Daniel actually auditioned for the replacement for Charles Mesure in the role of Jack Brennan. That role eventually went to Chris McKenna. However, Goddard’s agent Michael Bruno gave him a jingle a few weeks after he auditioned for Brennan and said, “General Hospital called, and they’ve got this character, and they’re writing it, and they want you to do it!” Goddard reveals, “It wasn’t a recast. It was a new character, and I was so blown away. I really felt like the timing was right, and I felt like it was meant to be. I can’t begin to express my gratitude to Frank and everyone at General Hospital and to Michael Bruno for really believing in me and being there.”

Fans of The Young and the Restless recall Daniel’s journey on the top-rated soap when back in 2007 he made his debut. At that time, he was believed to be Phillip Chancellor III, only for it later to be revealed he was really Cane Ashby. The actor remained with the show till 2019 and played his own twin Caleb in 2011. In story, Daniel was at one time married to Lily Winters (Christel Khalil) and they share two children together, twin, Charlie and Mattie.

What do you think about General Hospital casting longtime soap favorite Daniel Goddard in the new role of Professor Henry Dalton? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.

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**Yawn**

Another newbie joins a bloated cast to eat up airtime which would be better used on Proper (pre-February 2012) cast members.

Not to mention this whole plotline of Joss suddenly becoming a WSB agent, because she sent a serial killer to Hell, in the most obvious case of “self defense” ever, and made the mistake of calling her mommy’s new spy boyfriend to help clean up the mess, rather than the guys she has known all her life who could have made the body disappear with no strings attached. Or even her step-brother the cop, who would have definitely vouched for her self defense claims.

Brennan was considering her to be an agent way before she shot Cyrus; he was purposely feeding her information on his locations to see how she’d react. She called him first because he was the only one that knew she was looking for evidence on Cyrus; Brennan was the one feeding her information. So she felt like he was the logical person to call…

Why did Brennan recruit her? That’s the question. He seemed to be impressed by her her tenacity, her fixation on solving Dex’s murder and the lengths she’d go to do so. She “passed several testsm” from not opening her mouth to anyone about killing Cyrus, or joining the WSB, she didn’t give up during the training even though Vaughn kept goading her (purposely) to do so…and lying to everyone about her “trip.” Still, will all that, I wonder WHY Brennan chose her. Does the show really want to revive the WSB with young agents ala Joss and Vaughn…or is this a temporary story arc where we find out Brennan took her on with ulterior motives…

Your last sentence, maybe he just likes the idea of the connection between Carly and Joss and how he’ll be able to take advantage of their relationship in the future.

Exactly, what are Jason and Dante, Chopped Liver?

So, three soap vets try out for a recast Jack Brennan and Frank gives them each jobs?

McKenna and Cosgrove are recurring. Assume Goddard will be as well.

As great as Mesure was in the role, McKenna was the right choice among these three as the recast Brennan.

No one⏤I repeat⏤no one asked for this to happen. This is now the third (!!!) actor who went out for the role of Jack Brennan to be cast, and that is ridiculous. Not everyone who auditions needs a role if they didn’t get the one they went out for. This is Frank Valentini’s M.O., and it is infuriating. We did not need (nor want) Daniel Goddard’s return to daytime.

Thought he was going to be the mystery tycoon on Y&R, but it will be good to see Mr Goddard on our screens again

Thank goodness he isn’t. He can go to any soap as long as it’s not J&R – just my opinion.

From what I read , Billy Flynn from Days will be showing up as Aristotle Dumas. He looks too young fir me, but maybe he’ll appear older.

Next on General Hospital, Kris kardashian as Helena Cassadine recast lol. It will happen with Frank Valentini he loves Kris. Daniel Goddard enough said. Terrible actor. General Hospital going down hill again. Remember ABC want out of the soap business. Rest in peace OLTL they cancelled the wrong soap.

the right soap was cancelled.

OLTL was excellent; from what I read it was doing better in the ratings than GH. OLTL should never have been taken off the air; though I am glad that we still have GH.

I think being cast as a professor is as good as anything else. It gives Joss and Emma something to fight about or agree on, depending on the professor, I guess. It should be fun, watching the two girls “at work”.

I wonder if joss or Emma or going to be his love interest there both way way to young

Can you really picture either of these young girls being interested in this 50 something guy, after seeing the guys they’ve been interested in?

I really like Daniel Goddard but more time away from the vets. Who will they take off contract to pay for this one?

I can’t wait to see Daniel on our screen again. The role sounds like a great fit.

I hope he doesn’t turn into a letch, pursuing Emma. This 50+ guy makes me sick, thought he’d jump over the table and grab her, while totally ignoring Joss.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Elizabeth Thinks of Dante While With Ric; Will She Leave Her Ex in the Dust?

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Liz, Dante and Ric

Clearly, head nurse Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) is trying to deny her feelings for Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) on General Hospital, when she is trying to make up for missed opportunities and dates with her former husband, Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst).

On the Friday, November 6 episode, Elizabeth arrived at the Metro Court for her date with Ric. She made sure she thanked the legal eagle for taking care of her house on Halloween when she was called into work.

However, while telling Ric this, Elizabeth is struck by a flashback of her and Dante baking in her kitchen, where a very close encounter almost led Dante and Elizabeth to kiss. After shaking that image off in her head, she goes back to her date with Ric, who is being very sweet to her.

Elizabeth and Ric

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ELIZABETH HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT RIC

Their date gets interrupted when Lulu (Alexa Havins) shows up at their table asking Elizabeth to convince Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) to drop the libel case against her.

Later, when Liz talked with Willow, and Willow shared she appreciated the head nurse looking out for her, she asks her friend if Ric is the kind of man she wants her life?

Willow is pointing out, as she had in her relationship with Drew (Cameron Mathison), does Ric really love Elizabeth  … or is he using her to get what he wants? That comment puts more doubt in Elizabeth’s mind over reconnecting with Ric, and giving her more credence to follow her feelings for Dante.

So, where is this leading? Will Elizabeth cut things off with Ric? If so, will he snap? Is Ric using Elizabeth? And what about Dante? Are you enjoying the growing closeness between Elizabeth and Dante, or do you prefer Elizabeth with Ric? Let us know in the comment section, But first, check what went down on Ric and Elizabeth’s dinner date which lead to more questions than answers below.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Tracy Leaves Port Charles to Help Dillon; Paving the Way for Jane Elliot’s Temporary Exit

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Jane Elliot

General Hospital viewers became concerned when on the Thursday, November 5 episode, Tracy (Jane Elliot) was preparing to leave Port Charles to go help her son, Dillon Quartermaine, who got arrested while trying to film in Thailand.

Tracy informed Jason (Steve Burton), that she had to leave and was counting on him to look after things while she was away. That included: making sure Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and baby Phoebe were safe from the likes of Jude Jax (Wil Traval) as well as the Quartermaine businesses since Ned (Wally Kurth) still can’t overexert himself since his heart attack.

In Tracy’s final scenes, for now, she tells Gio (Giovanni Mazza) and Emma (Braedyn Bruner) to be there for Brook Lynn while she is going through her ordeal after divorcing Chase (Josh Swickard) and Jude trying to claim baby Phoebe.

Brook Lynn and Tracy

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HOW LONG WILL JANE ELLIOT BE GONE FROM GENERAL HOSPITAL?

However, GH fans! Have no fear. Tracy’s exit was written into the show to facilitate Jane Elliot’s annual vacation. Same time last year, Elliot exited the canvas around this time after the entire Ronnie Bard/Martin Grey debacle; where they conspired to make it look like Monica left the Quartermaine mansion to her sister, Ronnie (Erika Slezak) instead of Tracy. In that storyline, Tracy took off for a spa in France for some much-needed R&R.

Now, according to Soap Opera Digest, while viewers are just seeing the beginnings of Jane Elliot’s temporary leave, the soap opera confirmed that the long-running star is already back taping new episodes. GH roughly runs about six weeks ahead of air in its production schedule.

Jane Elliot

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ALL ABOUT JANE

Jane Elliot started her GH journey back in 1978, and has come and gone a few times including an announced retirement back in 2017, only to eventually come out of retirement a few tines, and rejoin the show full-time in 2023.

Along the way, Elliot has won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress back in 1981, and in 2025 was honored for her 50 years of excellence in daytime television becoming a Gold Circle honoree from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Michael Fairman TV spoke to Jane at that time, immediately after receiving her honor on-stage. You can check out that interview here.

Now below, watch scenes from Thursday’s GH where Tracy informs Jason she has to leave the country and go help her son.

Then let us know, with the mention of Dillon Quartermaine on today’s GH, will the soap opera FINALLY recast the role? Will you miss Jane while she is off-screen? Glad to know she is already back taping all-new episodes of the ABC daytime drama series? Let us know in the comment section.

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GH’s Finola Hughes and Laura Wright Tease Anna/Valentin/Carly, “It’s Not Your Typical Triangle, We’ll Say That”

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Finola Hughes and Laura Wright

On General Hospital, Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) are now dealing with the fallout of their discovery, the dead body of Jack Brennan. While Carly became a suspect, now the two need to figure out just who was responsible for the former WSB Port Charles Bureau chief’s sudden ending.

Meanwhile, Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) is trying to put her shattered life back together, after almost killing Dr. Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud), hallucinating she was seeing a dead Peter August (Wes Ramsey) and trying to shake off years of trauma at the hands of Cesar Faison (Anders Hove).

While it has become apparent that Valentin and Carly love each other, the same holds true for Valentin and Anna, but is it differently, now that the former lovers are apart? However, it appears when Anna is in trouble, Valentin shows up to save her. That is not lost on Carly, who up until now has tried to be adult about the whole situation, but how long will that last?

Carly and Valentin

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Michael Fairman TV caught up with both Daytime Emmy-winning Lead Actresses on the red carpet at the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards and asked them to weigh-in on what viewers can expect, and what’s it has been like working with leading man, James Patrick Stuart.

Laura Wright explained, “James is hilarious. I would say most of our dress rehearsals are laughing it out because we’ve got to show up for taping, but he’s very funny.” Finola Hughes echoed that with, “He’s a very funny person, always,” adding, “I couldn’t be in a scene with him and Amanda Setton (Brook Lynn, GH). It was him, me, and Amanda one time. We couldn’t get through the scene!”

Valentin and Anna

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The discussion turned to if GH viewers will see Anna and Carly fighting over the love of Valentin. Laura Wright shared, “Not in the way you would think. It’s not your typical triangle. We’ll say that.” Finola Hughes concurred, “It’s not your typical triangle!”

Watch our chat from the red carpet with Finola and Laura below, and make sure to check out all the moments from Michael Fairman TV at the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards here.

So, do you think Valentin will be caught in an actual love triangle between Anna and Carly, or will he be fully in his relationship with Carly, only to find himself constantly coming to the rescue of Anna Devane, causing an ultimate riff in his relationship with Carly? Who would you like to see Valentin with … Anna or Carly? Let us know via the comment section below.

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