Michael Hawkins (US actor)

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Michael Hawkins

Born	August 12, 1935 (1935-08-12) (age 72) Harlem, New York City

Michael Hawkins (born August 12, 1935) is an American actor.

He was born Michael Gainsborough in Harlem, New York City. After a small role on the CBS series Search for Tomorrow, he played Dr. Paul Stewart #4 on another CBS soap opera, As the World Turns. He later replaced David Birney as Mark Elliott on yet another CBS show, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. He later created the role of older son Frank Ryan on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope but was fired from the role at the end of the show's first year reportedly due to his alcoholism. He was asked back, but replaced with actor Andrew Robinson later that year.

He was married to Mary Jo Slater until their divorce in 1976, and their only child, a son, is actor Christian Slater, who took his mother's maiden name as his professional surname.

Information added on April 19, 2008 is that Michael was born Tom Slater and during the 1940's lived in the Strathmore section of Manhasset, Long Island. He was athletic and was one of the faster boys at his grade school, Munsey Park School, and started his acting and singing career in a fourth-grade production of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, "HMS Pinafore" as Captain Corcoran. His family moved from Manhasset after he finished 6th grade in 1950. More information on his performing can be found in a September, 1976, interview in Soap Opera People Magazine when he was active in Ryan's Hope.