Kirk Cranston
Played by:
Joseph Bottoms
Spouse(s) and Children:
Eden Capwell (divorced)
no children
Siblings:
N/A
Parents:
Jack Lee
N/A
Occupation:
Was in jail, before that he worked for the Capwell`s as the financial advisor who is a Harvard Business School graduate.
Background:
Came to the picture when Eden founded him on a plane when she was going to a meeting and the real passanger was not going and so he went instead. He and Eden got
married when Cruz and Kirk had broken up because Eden thought that she had pulled the plug on C.C. and Kirk saved Eden. He soon founded out that Gina had done it
and began to blackmail both Gina and Eden. Eden didn`t know that Kirk blackmailed her. Kirk sended a typed note that said that that person knew she had pulled the plug.
Eden started to pay her own husband. Cruz didn`t like Kirk and even tried to stop the wedding. Kirk and Eden eloped. Cruz did make it in time but they got married anyway.
Kirk wanted to keep her wife and get the Capwell money so he thought that Eden was cheating him with Cruz and Gina was making him to believe that it was true. He tried to
get Eden pregnant by switching her pills. He got a heart attack when he thought that he had killed Gina. And he got the attack when she appeared in his bathtub. When he got well
he blackmailed Gina to get her to kill Eden. She didn`t do that and Kirk tried to shot Eden while Gina and Eden were in the boat house. Gina was hit instead and she fell in the water.
Kirk started to chase Eden and Cruz and that ended when Gina came to the rescue and Kirk fell into the fishtank. Kirk then ended up in jail. Now he`s back. He kiddnaped Cruz and Eden and he told that
he killed Dr. Schotz. He also made Elena kill herself and he wanted Cruz and Eden to commit suicide.
Actor/Actress Bio
Birthdate/Birthplace
April 22, 1954
Santa Barbara, California
Parents:
James Bottoms (sculptor)
N/A
Spouse:
Single
Children:
N/A
Siblings:
Timothy Bottoms
Sam (Samuel) Bottoms
Benjamin Bottoms
TV/Film Credits:
Filmography from IMDb
FYI:
He is actually born in Santa Barbara. He got his early training there, performing in a vide range of productions, from Shakespeare to musical comedy.
Artistic talent is something of a family trait, as his father is a sculptor, and his brothers, Timothy, Samuel and Benjamin, are all performers.
He received a Golden Globe Award for his performance in "The Dove" the true story of a 16-year old boy who circumnavigates the globe alone in a small boat.
He has also starred in such films as "Crime and Passion" with Omar Sharif, and "The Black Hole" with Antho�ny Perkins and Maximillian Schell. On Broadway, he
appeared in the high-acclaimed "The Fifth of July" along with Lorraine Newman and Jeff Daniels. He had 4 days to learn the role. Among his
other stage appearances was a Santa Barbara production of Sherwood Anderson`s "Wineburg, Ohio", with Eva Marie Saint, Louis Gossett, Jr and James Broderick.
On television he starred in 2 mini-series for NBC: in the powerful World War II drama "Holocaust" he portrayed Rudi Weiss, the renegade member of the Jewish
underground, and in "Celebrity" he played motion picture idol Mack Crawford. He was also personally cast by Elisabeth Taylor to play opposite
her in a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of "Return Engagement". He has guest-starred on numerous television programs including in "Murder, She wrote" and his
telefilm credits include "The Stranger Within", with Chad Everett and "Stranger Comes to Town" starring Lloyd Bridges. The role as Kirk Cranston Lee was created for
him in September of 1985. He worked together with his brothers in 1986 in "Island Sons".