serial The Doctors. Patterson then joined the cast of NBC's Another World and Texas in the role of Dr. Kevin Cooke. The character began in Another World, but moved to Texas when that show began on August 4, 1980. He stayed until 1981, when the show was revamped to bring up its poor ratings against the number-one daytime program, ABC's General Hospital. Texas was cancelled in 1982. Patterson returned to One Life to Live as Joe's twin brother, Tom Dennison, from 1986 until 1988. He also continued to make appearances in other television shows such as War and Remembrance, Magnum, P.I. and The A-Team, and appeared in movies including Chato's Land (1972) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). His last role was as Sergeant Gaylor in the 1994 film Healer. Death Patterson died in Galveston, Texas, of congestive heart failure with complications from lung cancer and emphysema, on 14 February 2007; he was aged 77. His death was not reported for nearly a year. Selected filmography Malta Story (1953) - Officer on Back of Truck (uncredited) Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) - American Sailor (uncredited) 36 Hours (1953) - Joe (uncredited) The Good Die Young (1954) - Tod Maslin Diamond Expert (1954) The Passing Stranger (1954) - Chick Above Us the Waves (1955) - Cox Faccia da mascalzone (1956) Soho Incident (aka Spin a Dark Web) (1956) - Jim Bankley Reach for the Sky (1956) - Turner Dry Rot (1956) - Danby Checkpoint (1956) - Johnny Carpenter The Counterfeit Plan (1957) - Duke The Key Man (1957) - Lionel Hulme The Story of Esther Costello (1957) - Harry Grant Time Lock (1957) - Colin Walker Natlogi betalt (1957) - Johnny Williams The Flying Scot (1957) - Ronnie The Golden Disc (1958) - Harry Blair The Spaniard's Curse (1958) - Mark Brett Man with a Gun (1958) - Mike Davies The Desperate Men (aka Cat & Mouse) (1958) - Rod Fenner Breakout (1959) - George Munro Jack the Ripper (1959) - Sam Lowry Deadly Record (1959) - Trevor Hamilton The White Trap (1959) - Paul Langley Third Man on the Mountain (1959) - Klaus Wesselhoft Please Turn Over (1959) - Rod, the Wrestler (uncredited) October Moth (1960) - Finlay The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) - Reldresal The Ceremony (1963) - Nicky The Search for the Evil One (1969) - Becker Chato's Land (1972) - George Dunn Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)