Stephen Logan
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Stephen Logan, Sr. is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The role was played by actor Robert Pine for several guest appearances from 1988 to 2001 (1988, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001) and by Patrick Duffy from March to June 2006.
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Stephen had married Beth Henderson (Nancy Burnett) when they were both in college, and they had four children together - Stephen "Storm" Jr., Brooke, Donna and Katie. Stephen left Beth and abandoned his children when they were young, because he knew that in her heart Beth had never forgotten about her college sweetheart, wealthy fashion designer Eric Forrester (John McCook), and Stephen never felt that he could measure up. Stephanie (Susan Flannery) hired Conway Weston to locate Stephen to bring him to Los Angeles in an attempt to keep her estranged husband, Eric, away from Stephen's estranged wife, Beth. Stephen had been living in Arizona, and his daughters Donna (Carrie Mitchum) and Katie (Nancy Sloan) had flown to there to beg him to come home. Neither Storm (Ethan Wayne) nor Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) were happy to see him after he had abandoned them years earlier, but he worked hard to get his family to forgive him, and saving Katie from choking at a family barbecue went a long way toward doing that. He and Beth eventually made up left town for Paris after Bill Spencer (James Storm) gave Stephen a cushy job in his overseass office, and neither knew that Brooke had helped convince them to go to keep Stephanie from telling her son Ridge (Ronn Moss) that she knew all about Eric and Beth's affair.
Stephen and Beth would occasionally return for family events, but it wasn't until years later that Stephen disappointed his family once again. Massimo Marone (Joseph Mascolo) contacted Stephen and offered him $5 million if he would convince Brooke to move back to Paris with he and his wife, Beth. Stephen initially wasn't interested, but Massimo threatened to make Brooke's life very unpleasant if Stephen didn't get her out of L.A. Stephen had a heart condition, and pretended it was much more serious than it actually was, which convinced Brooke to go to Paris. Beth was furious with him when she found out what was going on, and Brooke was devastated that her father had betrayed her yet again. She returned to her life in the United States.
Stephen finally returned to Los Angeles six years later, at the request of Ridge. He had run into Ridge months earlier when Ridge was in Paris, and Ridge had been keeping him up to date on what was happening in Brooke's life. Originally he was there with the idea of convincing Brooke not to let what he did to her affect her life and to prod her into remarrying Ridge (which was why Ridge brought him to town), but had an abrupt change of heart after learning that Ridge had taken advantage of Brooke the night she had accidentally overdosed on sedatives. He soon became an ardent supporter of Brooke's new lover, Nick Marone (Jack Wagner), and it wasn't long before he began an affair with Nick's mother, Jackie (Lesley-Anne Down), and then found himself intrigued by Ridge's ex-wife Taylor (Hunter Tylo). He even admitted to Jackie that he and Beth had inevitably divorced in part because, to Beth, he just wasn't the man that Eric was. When Brooke learned of her father's flings with her long-time rival, Taylor, and her soon-to-be mother-in-law, Jackie, she ordered her father out of her life and Stephen returned to Paris.
