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Wally Kurth as Ned Ashton | |||||||||||||||||||
General Hospital | |||||||||||||||||||
Portrayed by | Kurt McKinney (1988-1991) Wally Kurth (1991-2007) | ||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | November 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Created by | Pat Falken Smith and Norma Monty | ||||||||||||||||||
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Aliases | Eddie Maine | ||||||||||||||||||
Gender | Male | ||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Businessman Singer/Songrwriter | ||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Between Los Angeles and Manhattan | ||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Lawrence Quartermaine "Ned" Ashton is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. He was portrayed by Kurt McKinney from 1988 to 1991, and Wally Kurth from 1991 until November 2007.
[DDGRFFZJPPUGDSAY 1]Character's background[]
Template:Unreferenced Ned is the son of Tracy Quartermaine and Larry Ashton, a British aristocrat. He heads up the Quartermaine family business ELQ and also handles personal family crisises that arise, earning him the family nickname "Gatekeeper" for grandfather Edward Quartermaine, grandmother Lila Quartermaine, uncle Alan Quartermaine, aunt Monica Quartermaine, mother Tracy Quartermaine, cousins Alan "AJ" Quartermaine Jr., Jason Morgan, and Emily Quartermaine, and half-brother Dillon Quartermaine.
Ned has had a number of relationships over the years. He was first introduced as having an affair with Dr. Monica Quartermaine, the wife of his uncle Alan. She didn't recognize him because he had been sent to boarding school as a child and she didn't see him again until he was an adult. He later married and annulled Monica's daughter Dawn Winthrop, divorced Spencer cousin Jenny Eckert, and band manager and recording company executive Lois Cerullo, the mother of his daughter Brook Lynn Ashton. He was also briefly married to Katherine Bell because she was blackmailing the family. The marriage was invalid, because at the same time, he was married to Lois as Eddie Maine. He had a long affair with Alexis Davis, but she left him at the altar on their wedding day.
He had a platonic marriage to Chloe Morgan, who was a distant cousin of his grandmother Lila, and later was engaged to Alexis's long-lost sister Kristina Cassadine, whose death he and Alexis blamed on Sonny Corinthos. Most recently, Ned had a relationship with Skye Chandler. For a time he pretended to be the father of Alexis's daughter, Kristina Corinthos-Davis and had custody of the little girl when Alexis was on trial for murdering Luis Alcazar and was later sentenced to probation. Alexis didn't want the Quartermaines to be involved in the girl's life, and he later decided to give up contact with her. Ned has been a back burner character in recent years, living quietly in Los Angeles and Brooklyn at once.
He returned in November 2007 to attend Emily's funeral.
See also[]
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Current Contract Characters |
Nikolas Cassadine - Michael Corinthos III - Sonny Corinthos -Carly Corinthos Jacks - Kristina Corinthos-Davis - Alexis Davis - Patrick Drake - Olivia Falconeri - Dante Falconeri - Matt Hunter - Jasper Jacks - Epiphany Johnson - Maxie Jones - Ethan Lovett - Sam McCall - Jason Morgan - Edward Quartermaine - Monica Quartermaine - Tracy Quartermaine Spencer - Mac Scorpio - Robin Scorpio - Rebecca Shaw - Lucky Spencer - Luke Spencer - Lulu Spencer - Damian Spinelli - Elizabeth Webber - Claudia Corinthos - Johnny Zacchara |
Recurring Characters |
Alfred - Helena Cassadine - Spencer Cassadine - Mike Corbin - Morgan Corinthos - Garrett Floyd - Max Giambetti - Milo Giambetti - Alice Gunderson - Kate Howard - Jane Jacks - Molly Lansing - Kelly Lee - Winnifred Leeds - Diane Miller - Bobbie Spencer - Jake Spencer - Cameron Webber - Lesley Webber - Lainey Winters |
Notable Former Characters |
Lorenzo Alcazar - Ruby Anderson - Ned Ashton - Gail Baldwin - Lee Baldwin - Scott Baldwin - Brenda Barrett - Katherine Bell - Jessie Brewer · Stavros Cassadine · Stefan Cassadine · Jagger Cates · Stone Cates · Lois Cerullo · Skye Chandler-Quatermaine · Lucy Coe · Kevin Collins · Anna Devane · Sean Donely · Andrea Floyd · Steve Hardy · Audrey Hardy · Tiffany Hill · Felicia Jones · Frisco Jones · Georgie Jones · Tony Jones · Ric Lansing · Duke Lavery · Courtney Matthews · Chloe Morgan · AJ Quartermaine · Alan Quartermaine · Dillon Quartermaine · Emily Quartermaine · Lila Quartermaine · Robert Scorpio · Dominique Stanton · Holly Sutton · Zander Smith · Amy Vining · Mary Mae Ward · Justus Ward · Laura Webber · Rick Webber · Karen Wexler |
Important Crew |
Executive Producer: Jill Farren Phelps Head Writer: Robert Guza, Jr. Former Executive producers: Gloria Monty · H. Wesley Kenny · Wendy Riche Former headwriters: Bridget and Jerome Dobson · Douglas Marland · Pat Falken Smith · Norma Monty · Gene Palumbo · Claire Labine · Richard Culliton · Megan McTavish · Charles Pratt, Jr. · Garin Wolf |
Related Topics |
Port Charles (Spin off series) · Port Charles (City) · Luke and Laura · General Hospital: Night Shift · Frisco and Felicia · List of cast members · List of General Hospital miscellaneous characters |
History of General Hospital |
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