Lee Patterson (March 31, 1929 — February 14, 2007) was a Canadian film and television actor.
After attending Ontario College of Art, Patterson moved to England, where he specialized in playing virile American types in British films. He appeared in a number of movies during the 1950s and 1960s, including The Good Die Young (1954), Above Us the Waves (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), Time Lock (1957), and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960). After moving to the United States in the early 1960s, he worked mainly on television. With roles on shows such as Surfside 6, he was one of the handful of primetime and movie performers to appear on daytime serials prior to 1970. His first soap opera role was that of Brad Kiernan on ABC's The Nurses. After that show's 1967 cancellation, he joined the original cast of One Life to Live, reuniting him with Doris Quinlan, the producer of The Nurses.
Patterson remained on One Life to Live until 1970, when his character Joe Riley was presumed dead; he returned to the show in 1972 and remained the romantic lead until 1979, when he left due to his unhappiness with the direction the show took after Doris Quinlan left to produce NBC's troubled serial The
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