Light's Karen as his favorite during his tenure with the series. Karen departs Llanview for witness protection in Canada in 1983 with agent Steve Piermont (Robert Desiderio), tearfully bidding farewell to Larry. Laurel and Dan With Karen gone, Larry soon begins medically treating and romancing Laurel Chapin (Janice Lynde) in 1983 after accidentally hitting her with his car. Concurrently, SORASed 18-year-old Daniel (Timothy Waldrip) returns to Llanview from abroad and begins work as a cub reporter for his aunt Viki at her Banner newspaper, but soon romances Viki's former stepmother and Larry's former hospital colleague Dr. Dorian Lord Callison (Robin Strasser), much the chagrin of the two former. Daniel eventually ends his trysts at his father's and aunt's insistence, and Larry and Laurel marry January 15, 1985 at Llanfair. Laurel dies in a car accident in March 1986, leaving Larry widowed for the second time. Daniel (Joshua Cox) returns in August 1986, now a doctor in-residence under his Llanview Hospital chief-of-staff father. Daniel soon becoming involved with hospital volunteer and Mitch Laurence cult member Allison Perkins (Barbara Garrick). Larry fails to dissuade Daniel from pursuing Allison, but only after Allison is revealed to be culpable in the kidnapping of Daniel's newborn cousin Jessica Buchanan does Daniel listen to his father's advice and leaves town. Later years Larry gradually becomes a supporting role into the 1990s after Daniel (Michael Palance) leaves town following another stint in 1991. For the rest of the decade and into the 2000s, Larry becomes featured mainly featured in his position as hospital chief of staff and close confidante to sister-in-law Viki and her extended family. Larry last appears on the series on the May 28, 2004 episode, where he informs Viki's immediate family of his successful heart transplant surgery on her. Reception The storyline of the recasting of the role of Larry to actor Michael Storm in January 1969 was met with fanfare and acclaim, particularly at the explanation of the change in Larry's face being attributed to plastic surgery as he had been severely burned in a fire; this recasting method of popular lead characters would go on to be reused on various other soap operas including Dynasty, and again on One Life to Live with the recastings of Max Holden and Todd Manning. Michael Storm's portrayal of Larry earned him a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in the category of Lead Actor in a Drama