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Dr. Jeffrey "Jeff" Webber, MD is a fictional character on the popular ABC soap opera General Hospital. He is the son of Dr. Steve Hardy and Helene Webber.
Jeff is the father of Dr. Steve Webber, Dr. Sarah Webber, Nurse Elizabeth Webber and Hayden Barnes.[3]
Casting[]
Jeff was portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson from 1976 until March 24, 1981. The character moved to Nevada and hasn't been on-screen since 1981.
On October 18, 2022, it was revealed William R. Moses has been recast as Jeff.[4] Moses appeared as Jeff from October 28 to December 7, 2022.
Storylines[]
Dr. Jeff Webber was first introduced in the spring of 1976 when he arrived in Port Charles after graduating from medical school. Newlyweds Jeff and his wife Dr. Monica Bard Webber (then Patsy Rahn) planned to join the staff of General Hospital following in the footsteps of Jeff's older brother, Rick Webber, who had reportedly 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 Jeff and Monica were a perfect choice. It was six months into their marriage. Steve assumed they were ideally happy, but in actuality, their marriage was a wreck. Jeff feared everyone at GH was comparing him to his dead brother, Rick. He missed his brother greatly, as did his wife Monica, who had once been engaged to Rick.
Suddenly, Rick appeared alive, revealing he had been captured by African revolutionaries during a civil war and held prisoner for ten months. Monica and Rick were still in love. Jeff grew angry and jealous as their feelings developed into an affair. In response, he had an affair with Heather Grant, a scheming nanny who wanted Jeff to herself. She became pregnant but didn't tell anyone, not even Jeff.
Suddenly, Jeff disappeared and no one knew where he was for a time, until he showed up at a Port Charles bar called Barney's Place where he was drunk and high on amphetamines. Jeff then stole a gun kept in the back of the bar, and was found unconscious with a bullet in his brain. On his deathbed, he was told by his sister Terri Webber while her own mother Helene was dying, she had revealed the location of a safe deposit box, containing a letter stating Jeff's real father was Steve Hardy.
In 1977, Jeff had a slow recovery from his bullet wound. Out of guilt, Monica reconciled with him. When Heather revealed to Jeff she was pregnant, Jeff told her to abort the baby so he could still be with Monica. Heather responded by faking a suicide attempt and demanding Jeff leave Monica.
He refused. Heather then opted to move to New York and give birth to the baby and sell it to Peter and Diana Taylor for $10,000, though she told Jeff the baby had died. Monica, meanwhile, was shaken by the fact her previous lover Rick Webber had asked Lesley Faulkner to marry him, and so Monica asked Jeff for a divorce. On the rebound, Jeff asked Heather to marry him, especially after learning their child had died.
In the winter of 1979, Steve Hardy was forced to place General Hospital under quarantine due to an outbreak of the deadly Lassa Fever. He himself fell ill with the fatal disease. Believing Steve was on his deathbed, his wife Audrey Hardy told Jeff that Steve was his real father. 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.
Heather drank the LSD. She began to wildly hallucinate. Jeff had no choice but to ship her off to a sanitarium. It was then revealed baby P.J. Taylor was really Jeff Webber's son Steven Lars Webber. Peter Taylor died of a heart attack when he heard. In order to keep from losing her adopted son, Diana Taylor married Jeff, though he still did not know the child was his.
In 1980, while Heather was still in the sanitarium, Jeff fell in love with Audrey Hardy's niece Annie Logan and the duo hoped to wed. In 1981, they had broken up and Jeff had an affair with Diana, who finally revealed to him P.J. was his son. Shortly thereafter Diana was killed by Heather's mother, Alice Grant, who had tried to frame Annie for the murder.
In 1981, Jeff took his son Steven and left Port Charles, later asking Heather for a divorce because he found someone else. In 1997, Jeff and his new wife traveled to Sarajevo to help in the war effort. They sent their two daughters Sarah and Elizabeth Webber to live with their 'grandmother' Audrey. In 1998, Jeff wrote to his daughter Sarah and had her move to Sarajevo as well.
In 2016, it was revealed that he had an affair with Naomi Dreyfus and they conceived a daughter, Hayden Barnes.
On October 20, 2021, Terry got a call that Jeff was trying to speak to Liz. She told Liz that Jeff called. It is revealed that Jeff called Liz once before when her husband Franco was killed.
On March 16, 2022, Jake confesses to his mom and Finn that he has been chatting with Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Carolyn on the computer at the library. They started communicating with him after his father died. Liz is upset to hear that her parents are secretly talking with her son. Liz is sent to Shadybrook to recover after being in a fugue state.
On July 7, Jake visits his mom at Shadybrook and says that his grandparents are still emailing him but he hasn't responded to them. Finn later considers calling Liz's parents as he is concerned with her.
On September 19, Liz agrees to Kevin Collins hypnotizing her as she doesn't understand a recurring memory she has been having as well as blackouts. Under hypnosis in her memory, young Liz leaves a building with a woman, who she shortly after found out was the late Reiko Finn. She grabs the woman by the wrists and tells her not to talk about Liz's father. The woman is suddenly at the bottom of the stairwell with Liz standing over her. Liz remembers someone standing at the top of the stairs. She flashes back to Peter August at the bottom of the hospital stairs before leaving her hypnotic state. Liz wonders if her father was the one at the top of the stairs who pushed the woman.
In October 2022, Liz and Terry head on a train ride to Monterey, California. They use a cover story that it is for a medical conference but Liz plans to break into her parents' house and find information about Reiko. Once in Monterey, Terry meets with Liz's parents at a nearby coffee shop to stall them while Liz sneaks into their house. She sets off the alarm and while Terry is on the phone with Britt, she loses track of Liz's parents. As Liz looks at photos on the mantel, she notices her father at the door.
Liz's parents are alerted about the alarm Liz sets off and come home. Jeff admits he had an affair with Reiko while she was married to Finn. Liz walked in on them in bed. Jeff claimed that he pushed Reiko down the stairs but Carolyn gets him to admit that Liz did it. Liz goes down to check on Reiko and sees Jeff at the top of the stairs. Reiko has a concussion and internal bleeding so she is given a blood transfusion which gives her Blackwood's Syndrome which she later dies from. Jeff sedated Liz and Carolyn coached her to forget the memory before leaving her with the neighbors in Colorado.
On November 8, Liz returns home and tells Finn that she was the reason Reiko died and she mentions the affair. Finn knew Reiko had fallen down some stairs but thought it was an accident. He didnโt remember the name Jeff Webber. Finn leaves and looks at a picture of himself and Reiko on his phone.
On November 15, Jeff comes to town and encounters Finn at GH. Finn punches Jeff because of the affair with Reiko. Later Liz sees Jeff in the hospital but she doesnโt want to talk to him and tells him to go back to Carolyn.Crimes Committed[]
- Stole a gun and shot himself [1976][5]
- Adultery; had an affair with Naomi Dreyfus while they both were married [1981; revealed in 2016]
- Adultery; had an affair with Reiko Finn while they both were married [1997; revealed in 2022]
Health and Vitals[]
- Punched by Hamilton Finn [Nov 15, 2022]
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See also[]
References[]
- โ Monica & Jeff were medical school graduates in 1976 starting their internships at GH. It takes 4 years (excluding the training that follows) to finish medical school itself which would mean they graduated college in 1972. Most people graduate college around age 22; so subtract 22 from 1972 and you get 1950.
- โ Revealed on 11/1/2022; Jeff confessed to Elizabeth.
- โ Confirmed by Heather Webber on August 29, 2016 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuhXRFPoYZk ... Jeff has no idea that Hayden is his daughter.
- โ https://www.soapoperanews.net/2022/10/general-hospital-cast-william-moses-and.html?m=1#more
- โ http://soapcentral.com/gh/whoswho/jeff.php
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