Adam and Dixie then marry, with Dixie giving birth to their son, Adam Chandler Jr. His affair with Dixie ruins his marriage with Brooke English ( Julia Barr). Adam hires Dixie, the niece of his bitter business rival Palmer Cortlandt ( James Mitchell), with the ulterior motive of producing a son, an heir to the Chandler fortune. He quickly has an affair with Barbara Montgomery ( Susan Pratt), and then meets billionaire Adam's ( David Canary) new maid, Dixie Cooney ( Cady McClain). A broken-hearted Tad leaves Pine Valley in 1986 to make a fresh start. Between the stress of this revelation and Hillary's focus on law school, Tad succumbs to the attentions of a lounge singer, who is revealed to be Adam Chandler's estranged daughter, Skye Chandler (Antoinette Byron, then Robin Christopher) despite desperate attempts to gain Hillary's forgiveness after she finds out about Tad's infidelity, she ends their marriage. Hillary discovers con artist Wade Matthews (Christopher Holder) has evil intentions toward her stepmother, Phoebe, and that Tad knows but is keeping it secret under threat of blackmail. He later finds out that Bob is lying about his condition, leading to Hillary and Bob's divorce. In 1985, Tad's beloved grandmother Kate dies. Before the wedding, he discovers he was misdiagnosed and is not going to die, but keeps quiet because he fears losing Hillary to Tad, who is now having his marriage to Dottie annulled after discovering her deception. She agrees to marry him to make his last days happy. Meanwhile, Hillary captures the attention of Tad's friend, Bob Georgia (Peter Strong) who soon learns he is terminally ill. She has miscarried, but hides this from him as she knows he would not marry her otherwise. Tad and Hillary end their relationship, and he marries Dottie. In 1984, Edna Thornton Ferguson (Sandy Gabriel) pays Tad to date her daughter, Dottie Thornton ( Tasia Valenza) at the same time, he falls in love with Hillary Wilson (Carmen Thomas), step-daughter of town matriarch Phoebe Tyler Wallingford ( Ruth Warrick) and daughter of Langley Wallingford ( Louis Edmonds) Tad's sister Jenny is killed in a jet ski explosion, and Hillary reaches out to help him cope with his loss, but encourages him to do right by Dottie when he gets her pregnant. Tad has a simultaneous affair with Liza's mother, Marian Colby ( Jennifer Bassey) which is eventually discovered by a furious Liza. He begins seeing Liza Colby ( Marcy Walker, briefly Alice Haining in 1984), a rival of his biological sister, Jenny Gardner ( Kim Delaney) for the affections of Greg Nelson ( Lawrence Lau). He is once caught in Erica Kane's bedroom with another model, which costs him his job. He is nicknamed "Tad the Cad" because he seduces and dumps many women. He gets a job modeling for Olga Swenson (Peg Murray). Knight onward, except for a brief appearance by Terrell Anthony in 1990) returns to Pine Valley in 1982, SORASed to age 20. In 1981, he steals the Martins' car, and runs away from home for two years. Dunn) proves to be a rebellious teenager. He develops a close relationship with his adoptive grandmother. When Ray is sent to prison for the crime, Tad is formally adopted by the Martins. Angered at their refusal to pay, Ray rapes Ruth. Ray returns and tries to sell Tad to the Martins for $15,000. Joe ( Ray MacDonnell) and nurse Ruth Martin ( Mary Fickett), and grandmother, Kate Martin ( Kay Campbell), to care for Tad. When Mary is killed during a home invasion, Jeff asks his parents, Dr. Jeff Martin ( Charles Frank) and his fiancée, nurse Mary Kennicott ( Susan Blanchard), who become Tad's foster parents. Tad is found in a Pine Valley park by Dr. Tad (then Matthew Anton), whose birthdate is noted as September 1, 1963, is beaten and abandoned (off-screen) by his biological father Ray Gardner (Gil Rogers). Thaddeus James "Tad" Gardner is written into All My Children in the summer of 1973. In 2021, Wally Kurth revealed that he had auditioned for the role of Tad.
He is one of the very few actors to be nominated in younger, supporting, and lead actor categories, all while portraying the same character. He won the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actor twice in 19, and won the Supporting Actor trophy in 2001. Knight has won three Daytime Emmys for his portrayal of Tad Martin. But the letters I get.I feel like writing back and saying, 'Don't you see, people like that can only hurt you. Knight was surprised at the reaction he got during the Tad the Cad era.
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