Raymond Arthur "Ray" MacDonnell (born March 5, 1928) is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Joe Martin on the daytime soap opera All My Children, a role he played for 40 years. MacDonnell received a Daytime Emmy award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004 (along with now deceased fellow All My Children castmate Ruth Warrick). Prior to appearing on All My Children, he played Philip Capice on the soap The Edge of Night from 1961–69. In 1967, he played the title role of Dick Tracy in a live-action television pilot. The show was not picked up.On September 29, 2009, MacDonnell announced his retirement from All My Children. Production of the show moved from New York to California in December 2009, marking the end of his 40-year run, although he will make guest appearances from time to time. His retirement from AMC left Susan Lucci, portrayer of Erica Kane, as the only original cast member still performing on the show. In February 2011, it was announced that MacDonnell along with on-screen wife, Lee Meriwether, would be making a three-day return to All My Children on March 8, 9, and 16th. MacDonnell returned to All My Children for the ABC finale in September 2011. He returned to the show in 2013 for the brief Prospect Park revival of the show.
Cast in the title role of the unsold 1967 pilot of a proposed Dick Tracy TV series for producer William (Batman) Dozier.
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After 35 years, since 1970, he is one of the two original cast members from the hit ABC soap -"All My Children" (1970)_ still there. Susan Lucci, who plays Erica Kane, is the other actor still present from 1970.
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Attended Amherst College and studied in London on a Fullbright Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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