Born Gerald Rubenstein, Jerry Douglas was an American actor best known for his 35-year reign on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless as patriarch John Abbott (1981-2016) and later the antagonist Alistair Wallingford (2008). [1]
Douglas appeared in over 70 TV shows and films over the course of his career. Some notable titles include the movies:Mommie Dearest (1981), JFK (1991), as well as TV shows: The Outer Limits (1963), "Mannix (1966), Mission Impossible (1970), S.W.A.T. (1975), Melrose Place (1999), and Arrested Development (2003).[2]
Actor, Jerry Douglas, nee Gerald Rubenstein, was born in Chelsea, MA. He was the son of William Rubenstein and Rose Silbert.
As noted in the 1950 census with family in Chelsea, MA.[3] As seen in the 1950 Chelsea, MA High School Yearbook: [4][5]
Married: Arline Greta Sax ; Oct 20, 1962, Los Angles, California.[6]
Age 7, listed with family. "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4NT-Q2P : Fri Oct 06 04:51:14 UTC 2023), Entry for Jennie Silbert and Samuel Silbert, 1940.
↑ National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: 3318; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 13-44
↑ "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Chelsea High School; Year: 1950
↑ "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Chelsea High School; Year: 1950
↑ [( California Marriage Index, 1960-1985
"California Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V62W-KWB : 27 November 2014), Gerald Rubenstein and Arline G Sax, 20 Oct 1962; from "California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2007); citing Los Angeles, California, Center of Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento.
Name Arline G Sax
Sex Female [wife]
Age 26
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 20 Oct 1962
Event Place Los Angeles, California
Event Place (Original) Los Angeles
Birth Year (Estimated) 1936
Spouse's Name Gerald Rubenstein
Spouse's Sex Male
Spouse's Age 29
Spouse's Age 29
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1933)]
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242417884/jerry-douglas: accessed 01 November 2023), memorial page for Jerry Douglas (12 Nov 1932–9 Nov 2021), Find a Grave Memorial ID 242417884, citing Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Maintained by Dave Heston (contributor 49665757).
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