Margaret DePriest obit

Margaret DePriest Dies: Actress & Writer On ‘General Hospital’, ‘Days Of Our Lives’, ‘All My Children’ & More Was 94

 

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Margaret DePriest, an actress and five-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee who wrote on numerous soaps including General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Sunset Beach and others, has died. DePriest passed away on September 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter Sara Kimbell confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 94.

Born in Bristow, OK on April 19, 1931, DePriest rose from Depression-era farm life to win a drama scholarship at the University of Oklahoma.

She began her career as an actress both onstage and television. One of her first credits was a contract role as Abby Cameron #1 on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966. She also portrayed social worker Mrs. Berger on The Doctors.

She segued to co-writer (with Lou Scofield) on The Edge of Night in the mid-1960s. In 1969, she co-created and was co-head writer of CBS Daytime’s Where the Heart Is, and went on to become head writer for daytime dramas General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Another World, One Life to Live, and most recently Sunset Beach.

She also appeared as an actress in guest-starring roles on The Catholic Hour, True Story and N.Y.P.D. in the late ’50s and 1960s.

DePriest earned five Daytime Emmy noms for Best Writing, first in 1985 for General Hospital, two for Days of Our Lives in 1984 and 1985, and for All My Children in 1990 and One Life to Live in 1992. She also was nominated for a WGA Award for Best Writing for Another World in 1998. In 1965, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Place for Chance.

She was married to writer Paul Price who passed away in 2012.

 

Writer

Sunset Beach (1997)

Sunset Beach

6.9

TV Series

head writerco-head writer (as Margaret De Priest)

1998–1999

18 episodes

 

Another World (1964)

Another World

7.0

TV Series

head writerco-head writer

1986–1997

111 episodes

 

One Life to Live (1968)

One Life to Live

6.9

TV Series

head writerassociate head writer

1990

2 episodes

 

Susan Lucci, Debbi Morgan, Rebecca Budig, Cameron Mathison, and Darnell Williams in All My Children (1970)

All My Children

6.8

TV Series

head writer

1989–1990

3 episodes

 

Days of Our Lives (1965)

Days of Our Lives

5.3

TV Series

head writerwriter

1981–1984

658 episodes

 

Finola Hughes, Maurice Benard, Steve Burton, Genie Francis, Kelly Monaco, Laura Wright, Donnell Turner, Tanisha Harper, Josh Kelly, Eden McCoy, Josh Swickard, and Tabyana Ali in General Hospital (1963)

General Hospital

6.6

TV Series

written by

1979–1981

151 episodes

 

James Pritchett in The Doctors (1963)

The Doctors

7.1

TV Series

Writer

1976

150 episodes

 

Fran Brill, Suzanne Davidson, Jennifer Harmon, Michael Landrum, Lynn Lowry, and Rosemary Prinz in How to Survive a Marriage (1974)

How to Survive a Marriage

7.8

TV Series

written by

1975

1 episode

 

Where the Heart Is (1969)

Where the Heart Is

7.9

TV Series

co-creatorco-head writer

1969–1973

900 episodes

 

Love of Life (1951)

Love of Life

7.0

TV Series

head writer

1975

223 episodes

 

Additional Crew

Finola Hughes, Maurice Benard, Steve Burton, Genie Francis, Kelly Monaco, Laura Wright, Donnell Turner, Tanisha Harper, Josh Kelly, Eden McCoy, Josh Swickard, and Tabyana Ali in General Hospital (1963)

General Hospital

6.6

TV Series

assistant to the producer

1978–1980

391 episodes

 

Actress

N.Y.P.D. (1967)

N.Y.P.D.

7.4

TV Series

1st Nurse

1968

1 episode

 

James Pritchett in The Doctors (1963)

The Doctors

7.1

TV Series

Mrs. Berger

1967–1968

11 episodes

 

True Story (1957)

True Story

5.4

TV Series

Frances Morrow

1960

1 episode

 

The Catholic Hour (1953)

The Catholic Hour

5.9

TV Series

1958

1 episode

 

Sharon Gabet and Larkin Malloy in The Edge of Night (1956)

The Edge of Night

7.7

TV Series

Abby Cameron #1 (1965-1966)

1956–1984