Shriner was employed by
Fuller Brush as a door-to-door salesman on
General Hospital, the role he is best known for playing, in 1977. In the fall of 1980, he left
General Hospital and immediately began playing Jeb Hampton on the
NBC daytime soap opera
Texas. He left that role in 1981 and soon returned to
General Hospital, where he remained until 1983, returning again from 1987-1993. In between those stints, he appeared on the short-lived syndicated daily soap
Rituals as hero Mike Gallagher. He also played Dr. Brian Carey on
CBS's
The Bold and the Beautiful from 1994 to 1995. In 1997, he once again returned to playing Scott Baldwin, but this time on
General Hospitals
spin-off Port Charles.
Port Charles was set in the same fictional city as
General Hospital –
Port Charles, New York – and featured many of the same characters. In 2000, Shriner returned to
General Hospital and quit appearing on
Port Charles the next year. He left
General Hospital again in 2004, and in that year portrayed Harrison Bartlett on
The Young and the Restless. In 2005, he joined the cast of
As the World Turns in the role of Keith Morrissey until leaving the show in 2006. He returned to
General Hospital in 2007 and left the series again in 2008. In 2011, he served as a temporary fill-in for fellow actor
Ted Shackelford on
The Young and the Restless, portraying
Jeffrey Bardwell Outside of soap operas, Shriner has appeared on several
primetime television programs, playing temporary roles beginning in 1976. In later years he guest starred on several programs such as
ABC's top 10 sitcom
Full House.
General Hospital Shriner is best known for playing
Scott Baldwin on
General Hospital over all other roles he has played. He was first cast as the character in 1977. He has left the program several times to play different roles on other soap operas, for short periods of time, but continued to appear as a regular cast member on
General Hospital.
Port Charles Plans to spin off
General Hospital were announced in December 1996. ABC had previously passed on the idea of a
GH spin-off proposed by former head writer
Claire Labine. Tentatively titled
GH2, the series was set to revolve around interns at the medical school across from General Hospital. Wendy Riche, executive producer of
General Hospital, was hired to fill the same role for the new series. Riche said of the new show, "This will be a multigenerational show, which is the kind of drama we've always done at
GH". The series premiered with a two-hour
prime time special that aired on June 1, 1997. It started in its regular timeslot, the following day, replacing the canceled
The City. The series also featured the return of
General Hospital characters
Scott Baldwin (Kin Shriner),
Gail Baldwin (Susan Brown),
Lee Baldwin (Peter Hansen) and
Karen Wexler (
Jennifer Hammon). After the series premiered, it was unclear if Lindstrom, Herring, and Shriner would remain with the series. It was later confirmed the actors would stay on the show. ==Filmography==