Travis Sentell

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Rusty "Travis" Tourneur Sentell, Jr. was a character in the now-cancelled American soap opera, Search for Tomorrow. He was played by actor Rod Arrants.

Travis was the son of Rusty Sentell, Senior (David Gale) and his wife, Mignon. He was a wealthy businessman who brought his family's corporation, Tourneur Instruments, into the fictional community of Henderson.

He was immediately smitten by Liza Kaslo, who had just lost her husband to leukemia. After he offered to bankroll her late husband's rock opera, after her mother, Janet refused to do so on the advice of her legal team, the two fell in love, and because of that, had led them into all sorts of amazing and dangerous adventures.

Most especially, they had to deal with art thieves; vengeful family members and the like. After a particularly dangerous escapade in Hong Kong, where Travis gave Liza a jade necklace and two shady characters, singer Zack Anders (Shawn Stevens) and his manger, Sylvie Descartes (Maureen Anderman) were intent on stealing it (they were thwarted of course), the two were married.

Travis and Liza settled into married life. However, his enemies were always around somewhere, and that meant their lives were constantly in danger. He had to contend with his supposedly deceased father, who was furious that he was married to Liza, and he wanted Travis to marry his goddaughter, Aja Doyan (Susan Monts).

Travis and Liza also tried to adopt his cousin, Lee's (Doug Stevenson) son, Roger Lee, but this was thwarted by Lee's wife, waitress, Cissie Mitchell Sentell (Patsy Pease). Eventually, they did adopt a child, and Lee, Cissie and their son left Henderson.

Travis eventually was killed mysteriously, who had done it was not certain. His uncle, Martin Tourneur was married to, and then divorced from, Joanne Gardner. This connected Travis to two of the show's long-running characters (since Liza was Stu Bergman's granddaughter). The Travis and Liza story was an attempt by the long-running Search to try to emulate the success of the Luke and Laura story on General Hospital, which was, at the time, highly successful.