He originated the role of lawyer Chris Hughes on As the World Turns in 1956, and played the role until his death in 1986. Contract negotiations kept him (and his on-screen wife Helen Wagner) off the soap for most of the early 1980s, but the show finally welcomed the two back in a big storyline with heavy uses of past clips from the show: in the story, Chris and his wife Nancy were celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. In real life, As the World Turns was celebrating its thirtieth anniversary on the air.
At its height, core actors such as Helen Wagner, DonMacLaughlin, Don Hastings and Eileen Fulton became nationally known.
Many long-time cast members are in this photograph: Eileen Fulton is in the second row, second from left; Helen Wagner is holding DonMacLaughlin's hand, second from left in the first row, and Larry Bryggman is second from right in the back row.
As the World Turns was the creation of Irna Phillips who, beginning in the 1930s, had been one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas.
KLAUNIADA is noted for its clown theatre that walks the razor’s edge between the tragic and the ridiculous, playfully demolishing the clichés that burden the art of clowning.
MacLaughlin is the founder and Artistic Director of the highly acclaimed New Paradise Theatre Laboratories in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and founding member of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.
MacLaughlin was in residence for the Fall of 1998 to work with Professor Belser and Juniata students in the creation the Juniata Theatre production of The Sympathetic Weight of Bones.
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