with Randolph Scott, in 1956. He guest starred as well on John Bromfield's syndicated crime drama with a modern Western setting, Sheriff of Cochise, and Bromfield's successor series, U.S. Marshal. He was also cast in an episode of David Janssen's crime drama series Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Beradino played a minor gangster in The Untouchables pilot that originally aired in Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. He then played a major recurring gangster, Augie Viale, in two episodes from the first season of The Untouchables series itself, "The Jake Lingle Killing" and "One Armed Bandits". On December 2, 1959, Beradino was cast as Al, a professional baseball player, in the episode, "The Third Strike" of the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. In the story line, the player loses consciousness when struck by a wild pitch and soon awakes with short-term amnesia. After appearing in more than a dozen B-movies, as well as supporting roles, as FBI agent Steve Daniels in the espionage series I Led Three Lives and as LAPD Sergeant Vince Cavelli in Leslie Nielsen's The New Breed, he was offered the role of Dr. Steve Hardy on the soap opera General Hospital. Beradino also played a version of his General Hospital character on an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Recognition For his contribution to the television industry, Beradino has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. He has also been inducted into the University of Southern California Athletic Hall of Fame. He is the only person to have won a World Series (1948) and have his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1993). Beradino received three Daytime Emmy Award nominations for best actor in a daytime drama. In tribute to the actor, General Hospital left Beradino's image with that of Rachel Ames in its opening sequence for a year-and-a-half after his death, through several updates. Though that image was finally removed in early 1998 (leaving Ames with a new solo image), an "action" clip of Beradino's Steve Hardy in the hospital remained in the sequence until the sequence's 2004 retirement. Personal life and death Beradino married Jeanette Nadine Barritt in 1941 and divorced in 1955. Together they had two children: Toni and Cindy. He married Charissa Hughes (née Veronica Contos Patton) on January 20, 1961. Veronica or, “Ronnie,” died on June 14, 1963. Together they had two