Jeff Webber
Actor History
Richard Dean Anderson (1976 to 1981)
Occupation
Physician
Resides At
Sarajevo
Marital Status
Married/Unknown Woman
Past Marriages
Monica Bard (divorced)
Heather Grant (divorced)
Relatives
Steve Hardy (father; deceased)
Helene Webber (mother; deceased)
Thomas Hardy Sr. (brother; via adoption)
Terri Webber (half-sister)
Rick Webber (half-brother)
Thomas Hardy Jr. (nephew; via adoption)
Laura Webber (niece; via adoption)
Mike Webber (nephew; via adoption)
Rick Webber Jr. (half-nephew)
Children
Steven Lars Webber (son; with Heather)
Unnamed Child (miscarriage; with Heather)
Sarah Webber (daughter)
Elizabeth Webber (daughter)
Cameron Webber (grandson)
Flings & Affairs
Anne Logan
Diana Maynard (deceased)
Crimes Committed
Stole a gun and shot himself (1976)
Brief Character History
Jeff Webber was first introduced in the spring of
1976 when he arrived in Port Charles after graduating from medical school.
Jeff and his wife Monica Bard Webber planned to join the staff of General
Hospital following in the footsteps of Jeff's older brother Rick who had
joined GH two months before but had recently been killed in a plane crash
over Africa. Steve Hardy tapped the young married Webbers for a bold new
experimental program at the hospital called Mr. and Mrs. Intern. For Steve,
the Mr. and Mrs. Intern experiment was a noble gamble. He believed that Jeff
and Monica were a perfect choice. It was six months into their marriage and
Steve assumed they were ideally happy. Steve was wrong! Their marriage was a
wreck. Jeff had a major hang up. Jeff feared everyone at GH was comparing him
to his dead brother Rick . Fearing he would always be 'second best', Jeff's
every thought was plagued by memories of Rick. Jeff missed him dearly...and
so did Monica. Before Monica married Jeff, she had once been engaged to Rick
and she missed him more than anyone else knew.
Suddenly, Rick appeared alive! He wasn't dead at all! Rick had been captured
by African revolutionaries during a civil war and held prisoner for ten
months! Upon his return to GH, Rick was haunted by something. Many thought
that it was the months of imprisonment Rick endured but to Rick's older
sister Terri Arnett, he was troubled over the fact that Monica had married
Jeff. Jeff was wary every time he saw Monica and Rick together. His jealously
exploded into anger when he discovered that Monica had met Rick in New York
before Rick returned to Port Charles! After seeing the troubles that Jeff and
Monica were facing, Steve abandoned the Mr. and Mrs.. Intern program.
Meanwhile, Jeff didn't know that Monica and Rick had secretly confessed their
love to each other but he had suspicions that the two were having an affair.
Jeff's suspicions grew more fierce and he began to take pills to numb his
pain. When Rick and Monica left town together for a hospital trip, a drunken
Jeff became convicted the two were having an affair! He raced to their motel
and barged into Monica's room expecting the find the two making love.
However, only Monica was there. Jeff confronted Monica and the two had a
bitter fight sending Monica into Rick's arms… and his bed! Jeff went back to
Port Charles where he then had an affair with Heather Grant, a scheming nanny
who wanted Jeff to herself.
Then, Heather became pregnant but didn't tell anyone...not even Jeff!
Suddenly, Jeff disappeared! No one knew where he was! Rick was worried,
Monica was frightened and Heather needed Jeff because she was pregnant with
his baby. Jeff later showed up at a Port Charles bar called Barney's Place
where he was drunk and high on amphetamines. Barney became nervous that Jeff
would leave the bar and people would think he got that way while at the bar
so he put Jeff in the back room overnight. Unknown to Barney, Jeff stole a
gun that was kept in the back of the bar! Barney called Mark Dante to come
pick Jeff up the next day but when Mark arrived he heard a gunshot and found
Jeff unconscious with a bullet in his brain! Rick blamed himself and Terri
feared that Jeff would die. Terri had a secret that had to be revealed before
Jeff did pass away and it involved Steve Hardy. Terri went to Steve and told
him that while her mother Helene was on her deathbed, she said that there was
a letter in a safety deposit box that revealed that Steve was Jeff's father!
In 1977, Jeff had a slow recovery from his bullet wound and, out of guilt,
Monica reconciled with him. Then, Heather revealed to Jeff that she was
pregnant! When Jeff told Heather to abort the baby so that he could still be
with Monica, Heather faked a suicide attempt to win Jeff's love to no avail.
Heather then ordered Jeff to leave Monica but he wouldn't. This gave Heather
the perfect scheme. Heather would move to New York
and give birth to the baby and then sell it to Peter and Diana Taylor for
$10,000! Heather did just that and Jeff wasn't the wiser, even after Heather
told Jeff that the baby had died. Monica, meanwhile, was shaken by the fact
that Rick had asked Lesley Faulkner to marry him and she asked Jeff for a
divorce! On the rebound, Jeff asked Heather to marry him, especially after
learning their child had died.
In 1978, Jeff and Heather married but early into their marriage, the
newlyweds saw very little of each other as Heather had become the nanny of
her own child 'P.J. Taylor' and Jeff was studying for his license. Soon,
Heather discovered that she was pregnant and Jeff announced that if the baby
was a boy, he wanted to name him Steven Lars. Heather however lost the baby.
In the winter of 1979, Steve Hardy was forced to place General Hospital under
quarantine due to an outbreak of the deadly Lassa Fever. Jeff, Steve, Rick,
Alan, Audrey, and Monica were among the staff quarantined for a few weeks.
After weeks, of work, Steve fell ill with the fatal disease. Believing that
Steve was on his deathbed, Audrey told Jeff that Steve was his real father!
Jeff was stunned and hurt by the news and was cold to Steve when he
recovered. Meanwhile, Heather was obsessed to see her son whom she had sold
to the Taylors. Heather planned to put LSD in Diana Taylor's drink and make
her go insane. However the glasses were switched and Heather drank the LSD.
She began to wildly hallucinate and Jeff had no choice but to ship her off to
Pine Circle Sanitarium. It was then revealed that baby P.J. Taylor was really
Jeff Webber's son Steven Lars! Peter Taylor died of a heart attack when he
heard. Diana Taylor realized that she could lose her little boy
forever... unless she married Jeff.
In 1980, while Heather was still in the Sanitarium, Jeff fell in love with
Audrey's niece Annie Logan and the duo hoped to wed. At the same time, Diana
wanted to marry Jeff so that she could keep her son. Also, Heather faked
catatonia and escaped from the sanitarium! She saw Jeff holding Annie in his
arms! She went back to the Sanitarium but was soon released.
In 1981, Annie and Jeff had broken up and Jeff started a hot affair with
Diana. Heather, who had again faked being insane, escaped from the sanitarium
again and saw the two making love. Diana, who was still hoping for a future
with Jeff, finally revealed to him that P.J. was his son. Jeff was angry and
stormed out of the apartment. At wits end, Diana pleaded with him to stay.
Minutes later, Diana was dead. Heather found the body and wrote Anne's name
in blood framing her for the murder. There was a clear-cut case against Annie
Logan and Jeff decided that he needed to leave town. Jeff took little Steven
Lars and left Port Charles, later asking Heather for a divorce because he
found someone else. In 1997, Jeff and his wife traveled to Sarajevo to help
in the war effort. They sent their two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth to live
with their 'grandmother' Audrey. In 1998, Jeff wrote to Sarah and had her
move to Sarajevo.
