Anthony Herrera

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This article is about the American actor. For the American football player, see Anthony Herrera (football player).

Anthony Herrera (born January 19, 1944, Wiggins, Mississippi) is an American actor.

Among roles in various movies, he is most known for his role as James Stenbeck on the soap opera As the World Turns, a role he has been playing from 1980 to 1984, from 1986 to 1989, in 1996, from 1997 to 1999, in 2001 and since 2002. Herrera also played Mark Galloway in 1974 and 1975 on the same show. From 1976 to 1977, he played Jack Curtis, a college professor who cheated on his wife, driving her to obesity, on The Young and the Restless.

[edit] Cancer

Herrera was declared in remission in 1999 from mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive and normally lethal type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He relapsed a year later, but has steadily improved without treatment through his new immune system thanks to a transplant from his brother. Anthony Herrera wrote a book in 2005 about his experiences, The Cancer War.