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1 day ago · Although General Hospital fans had known it was coming for months, when Lucas called the time of death on his sister, Sam McCall, it was a shock to the system for many. Kelly Monaco had played Sam for 21 years, taking her from a con woman with a sense of adventure to a heroine and mom who just wanted a stable life.
Oct 6, 2024 · Kelly Monaco is speaking out about her General Hospital exit. The actress, who is leaving the ABC daytime soap after 21 years as Sam McCall, addressed her departure in an Instagram post on...
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20 hours ago · JaSam was a love story for the books. Pic credit: ABC . General Hospital viewers and Kelly Monaco fans have dreaded the inevitable. Sam died this week on the hit ABC soap, and as Alexis (Nancy Lee ...
2 days ago · Time of Death. Sam’s (Kelly Monaco) death won’t come as a shock to viewers, who have known about Monaco’s exit for two months and speculated the character was being killed off. But in Port Charles, things took an unexpected turn at the hospital today. After Sam shared the news of her and Dante’s (Dominic Zamprogna) engagement with ...
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Daniel "Danny" McCall was a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. He was the adoptive older brother of Samantha "Sam" McCall and the son of the late, Cody McCall and his late, ex-wife, Evelyn Bass.
The character was initially played by actor Henri Lubatti in 2004 and subsequently by David Greenman from 2005 until the character's death in 2006.
When Danny was born, it was discovered that he carried the Fragile X gene, which caused him to be born with a mental handicap. A few years after his birth, his parents Cody McCall and Evelyn Bass decided that they wanted another child, but they didn’t want to risk having another child naturally. They feared that if they had another child naturally, that child could also inherit the gene and develop a mental handicap. Cody and Evelyn could not afford to provide for two children, with a mental handicap, so they decided to adopt instead of having another child naturally.
After making the decision to adopt, they soon brought home a newborn baby girl that they named Samantha. When Sam was only three years old, Evelyn decided that she didn’t want Sam anymore and she no longer wanted to deal with Cody’s drifter ways. So Evelyn left Sam with Cody and took Danny when she moved to Bailey’s Beach, Rhode Island. Evelyn remarried a man named Stuart Mest and became very distant and emotionally abusive towards Danny because of his mental handicap. No longer wanting to deal with him, she kept Danny locked up in the basement, while she went on with her daily life.
When Sam grew up and was a teen, Cody told her all about Evelyn and Danny. Wanting to confront her mother for abandoning her, Sam set out to find her and ended up in Bailey’s Beach. When Sam went into her mother’s house and began to look around, she was horrified to find her brother Danny chained up in the basement. She quickly unchained him and helped him escape, promising him that she would care for him and give him a better life. As they were sneaking out of the house Danny accidentally knocked over a candle that set the house ablaze with fire. Sam and Danny had no idea that their mother was inside the house when it burnt down and she was killed.
After leaving Bailey’s Beach, Danny and Sam went on with their lives and Sam did the best that she could to care for herself and Danny and give her brother a good life. Years later, the night of the fire came back to haunt them, when Stuart accused Sam of setting the fire that killed their mother, when in actuality it was Danny who had knocked over the candle and started the fire. Wanting to protect her brother, Sam confessed and took the blame for starting the fire that killed their mother. After a few months of being on the run and hiding, Sam's close friend and future lover, mobster Jason Morgan was able to get the charges against Sam dropped, by paying an inmate on death row to confess to starting the fire. Both Sam and Danny were now in the clear and able to move on with their lives. Jason also graciously arranged for Danny to attend a specialized school in Hawaii. However, Danny misunderstood his sister’s intentions and believing that she was trying to send him away he harbored resentment towards her and refused contact with Sam.
In October 2005, Jason and Sam moved to Hawaii to start their new life together. While there Sam and Danny reconciled and Sam was able to explain to Danny that she wasn’t trying to send him away, but only wanted to provide a better life for him. Danny understood and forgave his little sister. Sam and Danny enjoyed their time together in Hawaii until Jason and Sam had to move back to Port Charles, because of a mob threat in the form of the sinister Ruiz family.
In February 2006, Danny returned to Port Charles just in time for an encephalitis epidemic. Sam quickly fell ill, and after caring for her in the hospital, so did Danny. An antidote was found, but there was only enough to be given to one person and the two candidates were Alexis Davis and Danny. Alexis was given the dose and Sam grieved for the loss of her brother. The dying Danny told Sam how glad he was that their parents "chose her," to be his little sister, leading Sam to the discovery that she and Danny were not biological siblings and she was adopted into the McCall family. Sam and Danny shared a sad and tearful goodbye, and as Danny was dying he told Sam that he could hear the angels and could see his niece, Sam’s late daughter Lila McCall coming to greet him. After Danny died, Sam held his favorite red baseball cap near and dear to her heart.
1.Birth year=1973 according to headstone featured on April 7, 2006. Birthday acknowledged onscreen on July 10, 2013.
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Sam and Jason realize it's not either of their faults that "her son" died. Meanwhile, Kristina asks Sam if there is any chance she and Jason will fix their marriage. Though Sam hopes they can, when she goes over to Jason's house, she sees him kissing Elizabeth again.
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Sam wakes up, and believes her son is dead. The pain and grief overwhelms her, and she decides to file for a divorce from Jason. Sam continues to confide in John, and they share a flirtation. Jason figures out the truth about Sam's son, but by the time he figures it out, Heather has kidnapped the baby.
