Michael Edwards (actor)

Michael Edwards (born September 16, 1944) is an American actor and model.

Edwards is the son of John Chalmers Edwards Sr. and Charlotte Caroline Anderson, a high school teacher.

He has an older sister named Jeannie.

Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Pensacola, Florida.

When he was six months old, his father left the family for a "buxom blonde Texas heiress."

In 1962, Edwards enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and received his training at Parris Island.

After his discharge from the service, he began his career as a model, appearing in TV commercials and magazine layouts.

On June 4, 1966, Edwards married stewardess Grace Ward, of Boston.

They had a daughter, Caroline (born January 6, 1967).

Edwards and Ward divorced in October 1968.

While modeling, he had a dialogue-free cameo in Play It as It Lays (1972) opposite Tuesday Weld.

Edwards dated Priscilla Presley on and off between 1978 and 1984.

Edwards is pictured and interviewed in the book Male Model: The World Behind the Camera, published in 1979.

Edwards' most prominent acting role to date has been as Joan Crawford's lover Ted Gelber in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest with Faye Dunaway and Mara Hobel.

After they broke up, he wrote a book titled Priscilla, Elvis and Me (1988), in which he admitted being attracted to Presley's teenage daughter Lisa Marie.

He appeared briefly as "General John Connor" in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

Lisa Marie reported in a 2003 interview with Playboy that Edwards would make drunken attempts to enter her room and be "inappropriate" with her.