Sam Bennett (Passions)
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| Passions character | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | James Hyde | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1999–2008 | ||||||||||
| First appearance | July 5, 1999 | ||||||||||
| Last appearance | August 7, 2008 | ||||||||||
| Created by | James E. Reilly | ||||||||||
| Book appearances | Hidden Passions | ||||||||||
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| Occupation | Chief of police Security guard (formerly) Lifeguard (formerly) |
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| Residence | Bennett House Harmony, New England |
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| Parents | Samuel Bennett |
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| Siblings | Hank Bennett |
| Wife | Grace Standish (1979–2007) |
| Children |
Ethan Winthrop Noah Bennett Kay Bennett Jessica Bennett |
| Grandchildren |
Ethan Winthrop II Jane Winthrop Jonathan Winthrop Maria Lopez-Fitzgerald Sam Bennett III |
Sam Bennett is a fictional character from the NBC/DirecTV soap opera, Passions, portrayed by James Hyde.
Sam is the eldest son of the former Harmony Chief of Police, who would also become the chief of police himself. Sam has a much younger brother named Hank Bennett who is not much older than Sam's eldest son. Growing up, Sam was best friends with T.C. Russell and is still close with him to this day.
When Sam was a teenager he fell for Ivy Winthrop, the daughter of Governor Harrison Winthrop whom he met while he worked as a lifeguard. Sam went away one summer to work on one of the boats of Ivy's father so he could afford to marry Ivy. Sam's letters to Ivy were intercepted by Ivy's father, and she began to think that Sam had forgotten about her and was seeing other women while she was away. She began to date Alistair Crane's son Julian. The Winthrops had respectability, and the Cranes had money and the two patriarchs thought their children marrying was far superior to Ivy marrying a Bennett. Ivy married Julian, realizing that night that he did not love her but had been pressured into the marriage by his father. She ran off to find comfort in the arms of Sam, and they consummated their love. Soon after, Ivy gave birth to Sam's son Ethan, but she passed him off as Julian's son. She stayed with Julian because Sam had no money. Ivy and Julian would go on to have three children together; Fancy Crane, Fox Crane and Pretty Crane, but Ivy loved Ethan the most and doted on him because he was Sam's.
Sam left Harmony for several years and went to Boston where he saved a woman named Grace Standish from a fire; she later suffered from amnesia. The two fell in love, married and had three children of their own Noah Bennett, Kay Bennett and Jessica Bennett. They were together for about 20 years.
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