Judson Laire

Judson Laire (New York City, New York, August 3, 1902 – Rhinebeck, New York, July 5, 1979) was an American film, stage, and television actor best known for starring as Lars Hansen in the early CBS television series, Mama from 1949 to 1957, as well as several daytime soap operas including As the World Turns, The Nurses, Love is a Many Splendored Thing and The Edge Of Night. In a thirty-year stage career Laire appeared in ten Broadway productions. A resident of Clinton Corners, New York, he died in Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, New York, in 1979. Among his Broadway credits was Advise and Consent by Loring Mandel which opened in 1961.