Michael Sutton
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Michael Sutton is an American actor who is best known for playing the HIV-positive
teenager and AIDS
victim Stone Cates
on the daytime serial General Hospital
. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 for that role. Mr. Sutton’s performance was the first to capture the effects of the AIDS virus in real time. Mr. Sutton is active in and contributes to AIDS related charities and awareness. He and his family donated the Atrium at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey in 2010. For the past fifteen years Mr. Sutton created a brand marketing company, “brandSUTTON,” a full service marketing and promotions company that promotes brand awareness by integrating a product directly into it’s already existing channel of lifestyle, nightlife and special event programs. Mr. Sutton strives to foster relationships with tastemakers, celebrities and pop culture influencers. Mr. Sutton is a purveyor of restaurants and night clubs (The Lodge Steakhouse, Xenii, Goa, Guys & Dolls). Currently Mr. Sutton is the Chief Marketing Officer for two technology companies Worldvuer and Globa. He has a Bachelors degree in Film Production from Cal State University Northridge 1992. President of Production Ardustry Entertainment 2005. Founding Member of the Next Generation Council for the Motion Picture & Television Fund 2003 though present. Currently promoting and creating Hansel and Gretel's Candy Shop in Burbank, CA.
It was announced that he would return to General Hospital for two episodes in 2010.
Engaged
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
teenager and AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
victim Stone Cates
Stone Cates
Michael "Stone" Cates is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. Michael Sutton portrayed him from 1993 to 1995 and returned for a guest appearance from September 28 through September 29, 2010. The character died of AIDS-related illness in 1995...
on the daytime serial General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 for that role. Mr. Sutton’s performance was the first to capture the effects of the AIDS virus in real time. Mr. Sutton is active in and contributes to AIDS related charities and awareness. He and his family donated the Atrium at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey in 2010. For the past fifteen years Mr. Sutton created a brand marketing company, “brandSUTTON,” a full service marketing and promotions company that promotes brand awareness by integrating a product directly into it’s already existing channel of lifestyle, nightlife and special event programs. Mr. Sutton strives to foster relationships with tastemakers, celebrities and pop culture influencers. Mr. Sutton is a purveyor of restaurants and night clubs (The Lodge Steakhouse, Xenii, Goa, Guys & Dolls). Currently Mr. Sutton is the Chief Marketing Officer for two technology companies Worldvuer and Globa. He has a Bachelors degree in Film Production from Cal State University Northridge 1992. President of Production Ardustry Entertainment 2005. Founding Member of the Next Generation Council for the Motion Picture & Television Fund 2003 though present. Currently promoting and creating Hansel and Gretel's Candy Shop in Burbank, CA.
It was announced that he would return to General Hospital for two episodes in 2010.
Engaged
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-1995, 2010 | General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns.... |
Michael Cates | Nominated-Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Youth Actor in a Daytime Series (1995) Nominated-Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (1996) |
| 1997 | Inventing the Abbotts Inventing the Abbotts Inventing the Abbotts is a 1997 romance film directed by Pat O'Connor, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, and Michael Keaton. The screenplay by Ken Hixon is based on a short story by Sue Miller. The original music score is composed by Michael Kamen... |
Steve | |
| 1998 | Error in Judgement | James | |
| 1999 | Dark Nova | Zed | |
| Wanted | Jimmy Scrico | ||
| American Intellectuals | |||
| 2000 | Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula is a horror-war television film, which premiered in the United States on the USA Network on Halloween, October 31, 2000... |
Radu | |
| 2002 | Hyper Sonic | Kevin Irvine | |
| My Daughter's Tears | Ben | ||