Powers Boothe

Mister Boothe has a daughter who is also an acclaimed actress. He is also known for his voice-over from the 1970 PBS station ident, which served the network for its first year. Most recently, Boothe has played a featured role as brothel-owner Cy Tolliver on the HBO series Deadwood. Since the Horton family is still regarded as the core of Days of Our Lives, his memory has been allowed to remain imprinted on the show by the voiceovers remaining intact. However, his most lauded subsequent performance was in the 1990 CBS-TV film Family Of Spies where he played traitor Navy Officer John Walker. The narration was a tradition which started with the opening sequence in 1966 and with the mid-program bumper in 1975. He also gave several fine performances in other films like Southern Comfort, A Breed Apart, Red Dawn, The Emerald Forest, and Extreme Prejudice, as well as HBO films like Into The Homeland and By Dawn's Early Light. At each intermission, his voice also says "We will return for the second half of Days of Our Lives in just a moment".

He said at the time, "this may be either the bravest moment of my career or the dumbest." He joined the ranks of Humphrey Bogart and other actors when he portrayed Philip Marlowe in a series of short films for HBO in 1983-1986. From 1966 to 1994, he would also intone, "This is Macdonald Carey, and these are the days of our lives." (After Carey's passing, the producers, out of respect for Carey's family, decided not to use the second part of the opening tagline). During the actors' strike in the fall of 1980, he was one of the few who showed up at the ceremonies to claim his prize. He is most recognized today, a decade after his passing, as the voice who recites the epigram each day before the program begins: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives". A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the charisma and evil of 'Dad', Jim Jones." Boothe won an Emmy Award for his role, beating out veterans Henry Fonda and Jason Robards. He played that role from 1965 until his death from lung cancer in 1994. In Time Magazine's story on the production, Boothe was praised: "There is one extraordinary performance. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Boothe's portrayal of the crazed cult leader received critical acclaim. For the remainder of his career, he played patriarch Dr. A native of Texas with extensive stage experience, Boothe first came to prominence in 1980 playing the title role in the CBS-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones. He played the role of Herb Maris for the show's first season in 1959. Powers Boothe is a television and movie actor. Carey also played a crusading attorney in the 1950s syndicated series Lock-Up. He was known in many Hollywood circles as "the B-Movie king", sharing the throne with his "queen", Lucille Ball.

Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913–March 21, 1994) was an American actor best known for his starring roles in various B-movies of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.