Stu Bergman
| Stu Bergman | |||||||
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| Search for Tomorrow character | |||||||
| Portrayed by | Larry Haines | ||||||
| First appearance | 1951 | ||||||
| Last appearance | 1986 | ||||||
| Created by | Roy Winsor | ||||||
| Profile | |||||||
| Occupation | hotel owner | ||||||
| Residence | Henderson, USA | ||||||
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| Spouse |
Marge Bergman (deceased) Ellie Harper (divorced) |
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| Children |
Janet Bergman Collins (daughter) Tommy Bergman (son) |
| Other relatives | Gary Walton (grandson) Liza Walton Sentell (granddaughter) Danny Walton (Grandson) |
Stu Bergman is a fictional character in the now-cancelled American soap opera Search for Tomorrow. He was played for almost all of the show's 35 years by the late Larry Haines.
Stu lived in the fictional community of Henderson with his wife, Marge (Melba Rae), and his children Janet and later, their son, Tommy (played famously by John James and Robert LuPone).
They were next-door neighbors and best friends of the recently widowed Joanne Gardner. The Bergmans always were able to bring a smile to Jo's face, whenever she needed their advice, or good cheer.
Just as Jo and Marge were best friends, their daughters, Janet and Patti, also became best friends. Stu and Marge were together for almost twenty years when in 1971, she died. (Since actress Melba Rae, who played Marge had just died too, the character was not recast).
Because the house had too many memories of Marge, Stu and Tommy moved in with Janet and her new husband, Wade Collins (John Cunningham). Jo and Stu remained best friends and cronies afterwards.
Stu eventually got over his grief for Marge and married a woman named Ellie Harper (Billie Lou Watt). She proved to be a great wife to Stu for a long time, but she eventually ran off with the temperamental chef at the Hartford House, the inn that he and Jo ran together. He had enjoyed a relationship with one Dr. Barbara Moreno (Olympia Dukakis) for a time, since he was friends with her son, Joshua & daughter, Angela. Much later, he had a romance with a songstress named Wilma Holliday (Anita Gillette) but that ended when she went back to her husband David Glenn (Jack Betts).
Stu and Jo were related as her father, Frank Gardner, had married his widowed mother. They were step-siblings, but they truly cared for one another. He was also the grandfather of Gary Walton (Rick Lohman); Liza Walton Sentell; and Danny Walton (Cain DeVore); their father was the late Dr. Dan Walton, Janet's third husband. During the Travis and Liza storyline, Stu was tied into it, as Liza was his granddaughter; and Martin Tourneur, Travis's uncle was married to Jo.
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