Jerry Douglas (actor)

Jerry Douglas is an American television and film actor. Foryears Jerry Douglas reigned in fictional Genoa City as patriarch John Abbott on the daytime television serial The Young and the Restless. In 2006 his character was killed off, however, he has made special appearances since then.

Douglas was born as Gerald Rubenstein in Chelsea, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He was raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Douglas went to Brandeis University to earn a degree in economics. Eight months into law school in Manhattan, he gave up the books and started auditioning. However, his lack of training frustrated him, and he eventually moved thenwife, actress Arlene Martel, and their daughter Avra Douglas to California.

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