Alistair Crane is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera
Passions. Alistair is portrayed by John Reilly on a recurring basis
from August 20, 2007, to May 20, 2008; before Reilly's contract run
from January 21, 2005, to July 17, 2006, Alistair was also portrayed
by David Bailey from September 27, 2004, to January 13, 2005, and by
the duo of voice actor Alan Oppenheimer (November 8, 1999, to
September 24, 2004) and body double Bill Dempsey (November 11, 1999,
to September 24, 2004). Alistair was also played by Jordan Baker
(April 7 to November 13, 2003) when he was disguised as a woman named
Charlie.An extremely powerful and wealthy businessman, Alistair is,
for the first five years of the program, a mysterious character whose
face is never directly seen by the audience. Upon the recasting of the
role with Bailey in 2004, Alistair becomes one of the soap's primary
villains, expanding his focus from daughter Sheridan and her lover,
Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, to all of Harmony's citizens. Upon this
transformation, many of the most nefarious non-magical schemes in
Harmony such as the omega plot in 2006 and the Blackmailer's reign of
terror in 2007 are written as being Alistair's handiwork. Alistair is
frequently regarded as being pure evil; he expresses racist, sexist,
and homophobic beliefs, and all of his known relationships are based
on a megalomaniacal need to control his family members and sexual
partners.An extremely powerful and wealthy businessman, Alistair is,
for the first five years of the program, a mysterious character whose
face is never directly seen by the audience. Upon the recasting of the
role with Bailey in 2004, Alistair becomes one of the soap's primary
villains, expanding his focus from daughter Sheridan and her lover,
Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, to all of Harmony's citizens. Upon this
transformation, many of the most nefarious non-magical schemes in
Harmony such as the omega plot in 2006 and the Blackmailer's reign of
terror in 2007 are written as being Alistair's handiwork. Alistair is
frequently regarded as being pure evil; he expresses racist, sexist,
and homophobic beliefs, and all of his known relationships are based
on a megalomaniacal need to control his family members and sexual
partners.Alistair Ephraim Crane was born into the wealthy, prestigious
Crane family of Harmony, New England. Alistair's parents were cold and
unloving, and he grew up to be a bitter and harsh man himself. As a
young man, he became engaged to fellow socialite Rachel Barrett, whom
he loved deeply, but when she discovered his true nature, she broke
off their engagement. Unable to let her go, Alistair kidnapped Rachel
and faked her death in a boating accident.After Rachel's apparent
death, Alistair married her younger sister, Katherine, who was blind
to Alistair's dominating nature until after they had married. Early in
their marriage, Katherine gave birth to the couple's son, Julian Linus
Crane, whom Alistair raised and molded in his own image to ensure that
the Crane empire would live on. Several years later, when Julian was a
teenager, Katherine gave birth to the couple's second child, a
daughter named Sheridan Crane. Alistair Crane Top Movies & Young Movies