![]() When she learned that Tad had fallen in the consoling arms of his old friend, Brooke English, Dixie divorced him. ![]() Palmer paid a woman to lie and say she slept with Tad, sending Dixie packing. ![]() Alas, Dixie's Uncle Palmer and Tad's biological mother, Opal were set on breaking the two apart. Dixie, her son JR (by Adam) and Tad became a happy family. He returned and had a brief affair with Barbara Montgomery, but met and fell for Dixie Cooney, when he rescued her from the mental institution to which Adam Chandler had had her committed. The woman who Tad really wanted, Hilary Wilson, marred his best friend. While involved with the two women, he was paid by Edna Thornton to date her daughter, Dottie, who became pregnant, but miscarried. Tad went from a troubled teen to a con artist, and managed to have simultaneous affairs with Liza Colby and her mother, Marian. Charges were pressed and Ray went to jail. Ray reappeared, offering to sell Tad to the Martins for $15,000, when they refused, he raped Ruth. Ruth and Joe Martin became Tad's legal guardians while they searched for relatives. Tad was born to Opal and Ray Gardner, and until he was ten and his father pushed him out of a car near Pine Valley and deserted him, he was under the influence of an abusive dad. *Married Cara to keep her from being deported. *Learned he had a grown son, Damon, with his ex, Hillary. He didn't mean to kill him, he only wanted to get information about Emma's whereabouts. * Admitted to Dixie that he was the one who buried Greg Madden alive. * Purposely lied on the witness stand at Dixie and Zach's murder trial to make it appear as though he wanted them convicted. * Threatened to turn in Adam Chandler for the murder of Michael Cambias unless Adam dropped trespassing charges against Maggie Stone and Jamie Martin. * Arrested for the possible murder of Michael Cambias. * Filled Michael Cambias' empty coffin with stones. * Stole Michael Cambias' body from the funeral home and buried it at the garbage dump. * Tied up Michael Cambias and tossed him in a dumpster. * Arrested for unlawfully broadcasting a Fusion commercial over WRCW's national feed. * Jailed for the murder of Dwight Sweeney. * Fabricated evidence to get Brooke acquitted for killing Jim (although no one except Dixie knows it). The three-time Emmy winner resides in New York City.* Other Names: Tad Gardner (until his 1978 adoption) and Thadeus Martin (full name) Knight has also had notable guest appearances on MATLOCK and MURDER, SHE WROTE, and he has appeared in several theatrical productions as well. ![]() Knight came back in 1992, and has remained at AMC ever since. He returned to AMC in 1998, stayed for two years, and then left Pine Valley a second time. Four years into his run, he left to pursue acting projects on the West Coast including the feature film Date with an Angel. In 1983 he landed the role of Tad "The Cad" Martin on ALL MY CHILDREN. He earned a degree in theater arts at Wesleyan University and then moved on to the prestigious Circle in the Square Theater in New York for more technical training. ![]() At the age of 12, his ambition for acting surfaced. He grew up as the middle child of three sons attending a boys' preparatory school where his father was a faculty member. but spent his early years on the West Coast in Ojai and San Francisco. MARITAL STATUS: divorced from fellow soap star Catherine Hickland (ex-Lindsay, OLTL) ![]()
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