Miscellaneous Sources - Collection of Q & A's and Items on David Andrew Macdonald


09/29/07 - Jamaica-Gleaner.com
An actor we are happy to see return to soaps is David Andrew MacDonald. He is reprising his role, the fallen prince Edmund Winslow, on GL beginning October 24. The actor has been sorely missed since he was written out of the soap in 2005 (he made a brief appearance in 2006). This time he brings with him Cassie's youngest child, Will, who was forced to go back to San Cristobel to fulfil his royal duties despite being a toddler. Will is now being played by Seamus Davey Fitzpatrick, who was the creepy Damien in a recent remake of the horror film The Omen. Hopefully, Will won't be giving Cassie the kind of trouble Damien was capable of.

09/08/07 - Times Leader Entertainment
Pair of favorites finds way back to ‘Guiding Light’
TOBY GOLDSTEIN Tribune Media Services
This fall marks the return of two former “Guiding Light” cast members, Daniel Cosgrove and David Andrew MacDonald, who play, respectively, Bill and Edmund. Cosgrove has been away from the series for almost two years, while MacDonald last appeared in January 2006, as Edmund continues to languish in jail. Both roles are expected debut next month.

05/03/07 - Connecticut Stage (ctnow.com)
It is during this visit that Lord Ashbrook, filled with paternal pomposity by the fine David Andrew MacDonald, witnesses the moment when Alexander's soprano cracks. This leads to an act of rebellion by the young musician, and the great Lord strikes his eldest son's name from the family Bible.

09/15/05 - Bob Borden (from Late Night With David Letterman):
Working with the nice folks at Guiding Light, man, it's just so great. For the 'Delivery Guy' role, I probably went over my lines a thousand times. Then when you get on their set, you start to think that maybe you don't know the lines at all -- then the camera roles and you know the lines, like they're part of you, it's a weird feeling, it's a rush. And the actor I worked with, David Andrew Macdonald, while he plays a bad guy on the show, he couldn't have been nicer to me. Great fun all the way around.

05/10/05 - SoapCity - What makes the perfect daytime man?
David Andrew Macdonald (Edmund; GL): One who acquiesces with a modicum of style. Edmund is somewhat unpredictable. He’s hardly cool, calm and collected, although he can be, but it’s iced with panic and desperation. He’s a man who serves a purpose. If you’re going to tell stories, you must be a device. Characters serve the purpose of telling a story. As pedestrian as that may sound, that’s actually quite fascinating. The best thing you can do is serve your purpose in the story. If you don’t do that, you’re not doing your job. People like me because, whether they know it or not, I am serving my purpose in telling story.

09/06/04 - Soap Opera Previews - Seen and Heard
When David Andrew Macdonald (Edmund) and wife Nikki brought their newborn daughter, Elena, home, his inlaws flew in to lend a hand.

Spring 2004 - Soap Star Guide - Just The Facts
David Andrew Macdonald
Just the Facts:
Superstitious: "When I leave the house and have to come back in because I've forgotten something, I sit down and count to 10. It's an Irish thing."
Not-So-Guilty TV Pleasure: The Simpsons
Word Play: He was diagnosed with dyslexia in elementary school.

June 2003 - TV Guide Online
Spotted: David Andrew Macdonald(Edmund, GL) getting coifed to appear in CBS daytime's "Hot Enough For You" campaign, in an airy, cream-colored loft in NYC's Greenwich Village. Macdonald had just returned from Paris, where he had delivered a special gift to his wife: Himself. "She was going there, and I wanted to surprise her," he explains. After dropping his love off in Pennsylvania, where she visited before take-off, Macdonald hopped a flight and arrived in the city d'amour a few days early. "So there I was in the hotel with roses and champangne," he says with a grin. "She was shocked. She couldn't figure out how she'd ridden on a plane for 8 hours and landed back in New Jersey."

April 2002 - TV Guide Online - My POV
MY POV: It's a shame that David Andrew Macdonald, who plays Edmund on Guiding Light, didn't get a nod in this year's Emmy pool. Macdonald can do what many a romantic lead can only dream about: create chemistry with any leading lady, a talent he proved as he was paired with two unlikely candidates this week on GL. Pulling Elizabeth Keifer's drunken Blake into a seductive dance at the country club, it seemed natural to believe that there could be a connection built between them, if given the opportunity. Later, as he was propositioned by Carmen (played by Saundra Santiago), Macdonald's flawless timing during their flirtatious wordplay created onscreen electricity yet again. With his roguish accent and smoldering gaze, it's easy to understand why women are drawn to this devious but debonair character. His feelings may just be a conniving con or truly genuine (in the case with Beth), but either way, just like the women of Springfield, Edmund's got us hooked.

11/06/01 - Soap Opera Update - Honorable Mention
David Andrew Macdonald (GL's Edmund)
He was great when he was evil personified, but his down-and-out-prince-in-mourning persona is unbeatable.

05/17/01 - Official Kim Zimmer Fan Club Chat with Brittany Snow (ex-Susan Leamy, GL)
Question: Susan was one of the few characters who saw something good in Edmund that she truly cared about. How was working with David Andrew Macdonald?
Brittany Snow: I love David! He is so great, he's the coolest guy, one of the coolest guys I think I have ever met in my life. He's so intelligent and has so much to offer on many things; life and the world, I totally loved working with him. He's hilarious and he's taught me so much and it was an experience I'll never forget.

02/2001 - Sudz TV - Kim Rhodes
SUDZ: The scenes you did with John Bolger were quite incredible. But my personal favorites were the scenes you did with Mark Pinter.
KIM: Oh, mine, too. Until you know what, oddly enough though, my favorite scene I ever did was with David. It's very funny because my relationship with Mark spanned almost three years. We knew each other's timing, we knew how to work. We were a good team. I was devastated when they let him go. Of course by the time I started really loving Cindy's relationship with David Halliday the show was cancelled. But the scene where Josie pushed me into the water and then I came out and saw the check was ruined and I was soaking wet. Then David Halliday comes out and says I'll give you a job. And then he said I might even actually like you. Huh. It's my favorite scene that I ever did. I remember walking in my clothes walking up to the second floor, standing in the shower, walking back down and going OK, let's get this done I'm cold!
SUDZ: We had David Andrew MacDonald at our reunion in June in New York City. And one of the things he brought up was the scenes he did with you and how much he enjoyed them.
KIM: Oh, I could just eat him up! Yeah, that was cut short in its prime. He has such a beautiful sense of mischief. Mark Pinter has the same thing. There may be a very definite strong, almost evil presence on screen. And yet there was a sense of play about them that draws the audience in and makes you empathize with the character. It's that sense of having fun. Another World, for as "junkyard doggish" as we were out there in Brooklyn. We had a blast.

02/02/99 - Soap Opera Update - New AW Blood!
First, ANOTHER WORLD recruited David Andrew Macdonald to be The Lumina Foundation's omnipresent mastermind Jordan Stark. In terms of his other-worldly storyline, Macdonald explains that it is similar to the 19th-century Romantic novels. "This is heightened Romanticism. There is an element of the supernatural, the unexplained; if you get lost in the story, then everything is plausible."
According to Macdonald, his alter ego is misunderstood. "Stark gets a bum rap," the actor jokes. "He's very Machiavellian, and for him, the ends justify the means."--Robyn Anne Nelson

05/1997 - Atlantic Unbound review of "The Green Heart"
"I'm poor!" exploded the riveting David Andrew Macdonald as a suddenly penniless playboy. (It does not hurt that he resembles Christopher Reeve.)

04/1997 - CurtainUp review of "The Green Heart"
David Andrew MacDonald has all the requirements for a musical's leading man--handsome to look at and listen to. He moves through playboy William Graham's redemption from "empty vessel" to "green heart" with persuasive panache.

07/16/95 - NY Times Review of "Julius Caesar"
David Andrew Macdonald's moving performance as Mark Antony assumes the risk of a relentless self-questioning. Mr. Macdonald is not playing a man ordained to be shrewd, valiant and all-knowing. He appears, analytically, to be steering his own advance, to be a step ahead in the surprise of circumstance, to shade the elegiac with the suggestion of disdain.

07/14/93 - NY Times Review of "Arms and the Man"
David Andrew Macdonald is the very picture of a real hero as Sergius, the fake hero and philanderer. The actor mixes dash with deceit in proper measure.

08/16/92 - NY Times Review of "Henry IV"
And is that a zap gun before us in the battle scenes? The most gruesome one has Archibald, Earl of Douglas (forcefully played by David Andrew Macdonald), viciously slaying Sir Walter Blunt (Peter Hadres), whom he mistakes for the King.