Former Santa Barbara Star Dane Witherspoon Dies at 56
Robin Wright's first husband, Dane Witherspoon, who costarred with her in the soap opera Santa Barbara, has died. He was 56. Actor A Martinez, who also starred in the hit daytime drama, announced the death in a message posted to his Facebook on Saturday. "Dane passed this morning. People who watched Santa Barbara in its earliest days will remember him as Joe Perkins, a character to which he brought a quiet grace and deep, bittersweet sense of soul," Martinez writes, according to Soap Opera Digest. Witherspoon was a part of the original cast, but was fired from the show months after filming began,...
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