Christopher Morley(II)
- Actor
Christopher Morley was an actor and female impersonator who specialized
in cross-dressing roles in the 1970s and '80s. He is best known for his
turn as the crook-in-drag in
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
and an appearance in a recurring role on
General Hospital (1963) in
1980. Morley's character was a friend of Laura, and attracted the
flirtatious interest of Luke. The role was played straight until
Morley's character finally revealed that "she" was a man. This was
possibly the influence for Larry Gelbart's
screenplay for Tootsie (1982), in
which Dustin Hoffman played an actor who
gets a job on a soap opera by impersonating a woman.
