Morgan Stevens R.I.P.

Morgan Stevens, who was a regular on the TV shows Fame and A Year and the Life,  as well as making significant guest appearances on The Waltons and Melrose Place, was found dead in his home on January 26 2022 at the age of 70. He is believed to have died of natural causes.

Morgan Stevens was born on October 16, 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied advertising at the University of Tennessee before dropping out to join the Coast Guard. He was stationed in New York City and saw several Broadway plays while there. This triggered in his interest in acting. He then went back to college and majored in theatre arts. After he graduated he moved to Los Angeles.

It was in the late Seventies that he began appearing regularly on television. He guest starred in a two-part episode of One Day at a Time and appeared in the TV movie Peyton Place' 79 in 1979.  That same year he guest starred on The Waltons. He returned to the show in 1981, playing a different character, Paul Matthews Northridge, a love interest for Erin Walton. He subsequently appeared in reunion movies of The Waltons, in which Paul and Erin married. During the Eighties he was a regular on the shows Bare Essence, Fame, and A Year in the Life. He guest starred on the shows Quincy M.E.; Finder of Lost Loves; Scene of the Crime; Brothers; Hollywood Beat; The Love Boat; Blacke's Magic; Airwolf; Magnum, P.I.; Hotel; Murder, She Wrote; The Law and Harry McGraw; and Danger Bay.

In the Nineties he guest starred on Melrose Place, One West Waikiki, Murder One, High Incident, and Walker, Texas Ranger. He also appeared in the movies Up River (1979) and Survival Zone (1983).