Soap Opera Digest & Weekly Online: 1981 Emmy Winners & Nominees

(winners in red)

1981

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
ALL MY CHILDREN
GENERAL HOSPITAL
RYAN'S HOPE

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, AMC)
Douglass Watson (Mac Cory, AW)
Larry Bryggman (John Dixon, ATWT)
Henderson Forsythe (David Stewart, ATWT)
Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer, GH)

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
Julia Barr (Brooke Cudahy, AMC)
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, AMC)
Judith Light (Karen Wolek, OLTL)
Robin Strasser (Dorian Lord Callison, OLTL)
Helen Gallagher (Maeve Ryan, RH)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matthew Cowles (Billy Clyde Tuggle, AMC)
William Mooney (Paul Martin, AMC)
Justin Deas (Tom Hughes, ATWT)
Richard Backus (Barry Ryan, RH)
Larry Haines (Stu Bergman, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elizabeth Lawrence (Myra Murdoch, AMC)
Lois Kibbee (Geraldine Whitney Saxon, THE EDGE OF NIGHT)
Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine Williams, GH)
Randall Edwards (Delia Coleridge, RH)