Cameron Webber

William Lipton as Cameron Webber

**Cameron Steven Webber** is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera *General Hospital*. He is the son of the late, Zander Smith and Nurse Elizabeth Webber via one-night stand, but Lucky Spencer, the man who raised him, is the only father he has ever known.

He was born offscreen on May 11, 2004.

Rebecca Herbst, who portrays Elizabeth, was pregnant in real life with a little girl during this time so her pregnancy was written into the show. She went on maternity leave sometime in April or May 2004 and returned on June 18, 2004.

## Casting

He has appeared periodically throughout the show since June 2004, mainly in relation to storylines concerning his mother, Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst). During this time period he was portrayed by unknown babies.

Ashwyn Bagga portrayed Cameron from 2005-06. He is pictured in the gallery below.

Child actor Braeden Walkes is most notable in the role, portraying Cameron from 2006-12.

Michael Leone portrayed Cameron from February 18, 2013 to March 1, 2018.

Anthony Joseph Saliba portrayed Cameron in three episodes: June 21, 24 and August 22, 2013. He is pictured to the left.

On June 28, 2018, *ABC Soaps In Depth*, reported that the role of Cameron had been recast with Cade McWatt.

According to the article, the character was also slightly aged to place him in the same age range as Josslyn Jacks and Oscar Nero.

McWatt made his only appearances on July 3, 2018 and July 25, 2018. He is pictured to the above.

The role of Cameron was recast again and on August 10, 2018, William Lipton debuted in the role. Lipton is an actor and singer who has appeared in *The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer* and the shorts *A Girl Named Khan* and *Finding Hammy.*

Lipton was on contract from October 22, 2018 through February 26, 2021, and was on recurring status thereafter.

Matt Lanter is currently playing Cameron when the character was SORASed once more.

## Background

Elizabeth is in a tumultuous marriage with Ric Lansing, and finds it hard to trust him due to his obsession for revenge against his brother, Sonny Corinthos.

At one point, when Elizabeth miscarries his child, he blames Sonny and takes Sonny's pregnant wife, Carly, hostage, locking her in a panic room, and intends to give her unborn baby to Elizabeth to raise. Elizabeth finds out and is horrified by Ric's actions, causing a rift in their marriage.

During this time, on Halloween 2003, she sleeps with Zander Smith for the second time and ends up pregnant. Due to Zander's dangerous lifestyle, Elizabeth and Ric (who had since reconciled) decide to raise the child together without Zander involved. Zander agrees to let Elizabeth and Ric raise his child. Elizabeth ends up divorcing Ric when she realizes that he won't let go of his obsession with Sonny.

In his early years, Cameron was raised by Lucky Spencer, the only father he has ever known. Despite various attempts, he was never legally adopted by Lucky, however, he has always been seen as a member of the Spencer family. This is further illustrated through his relationships with Lulu Spencer, whom he calls his aunt and Laura Collins, whom he affectionately calls grandma.

In his teens, his personality closely resembles his mother’s persona when she was his age. Like Lucky, he is also shown to be musically gifted and he can sing and play the guitar.

Cameron has been romantically linked to Josslyn Jacks, the daughter of his mother's former enemy Carly Corinthos and Trina Robinson, the daughter of his mother's old friend Marcus Taggert.

## Storylines

* 2004-12
* 2013-16
* 2017-19
* 2020-Present

Elizabeth leaves town to have her baby and returns on June 18, 2004 with baby Cameron. Cameron is often left in the care of Elizabeth's grandmother, Audrey Hardy while Elizabeth studies to become a certified nurse at GH. Elizabeth also reconciles with first love Lucky Spencer, and they get married in 2005. Lucky becomes the father figure in Cameron's life. In May 2007, Elizabeth gives birth to a second son, Jacob Martin Spencer, and Cameron is thrilled to be a big brother. Lucky divorces Elizabeth in late 2007 after finding out that he is not Jake's biological father. Elizabeth had a one-night-stand with Jason Morgan, a well-known mobster, but asked him to walk away so she could keep her marriage to Lucky and to protect her kids from Jason's dangerous lifestyle. Lucky agrees to keep letting everyone believe that Jake is his son. Even after the divorce, Cameron still sees Lucky as his father and Lucky raises Cameron as his own son.

On January 11, 2008, Elizabeth scolds Cameron for playing with matches in the house. He later lights a match and throws it away, causing the house to catch on fire. Elizabeth is outside when this happens, but Cameron's little half-brother Jake is inside the house in his crib. Elizabeth breaks a window and gets Jake out in time before the whole house burns down. The house is eventually repaired, and Elizabeth moves back in with her kids.

Lucky and Elizabeth decide to give their relationship another try in May 2009. As they kiss and make up, Cameron runs in, ecstatic because his "mom and dad are back together." Lucky breaks up with Elizabeth in January 2010 when he finds out she's been having an affair with his brother, Nikolas Cassadine. Elizabeth later tells Lucky that Cameron is asking for him, but she has no idea what to tell him. Lucky, who started drinking when he discovered Elizabeth's affair, decides to become sober to remain a father to Cam and Jake after Elizabeth is institutionalized in February 2010.

Nikolas brings Cam and Jake to visit Elizabeth, and she tells Cam that she is going to have another baby. On July 19, 2010, Cameron's youngest half-brother Aiden Spencer was born.

In March 2011, Cameron's younger half-brother, Jake was believed to have died after being hit by a car. Cameron has a hard time dealing with his death, since he is young and confused. Lucky later finds out that Aiden is actually his biological son, not Nikolas Cassadine’s, as they believed, and takes Cameron and Aiden on a camping trip. When they come home, he tells Cameron that Aiden is actually his son because of their similar DNA. Cameron asks Lucky if the two of them have similar DNA, and Lucky replies that they don't, but he still loves Cameron as his own son.

***Cameron**: Do I have the same DNA as you?*

***Lucky**: You have mommy’s. And your biological father, the man that shares your DNA, he died. So I got to be your daddy. So, see, you're my first-born. And that means you have a very, very special place in my heart. Come here.*

***Cameron**: I love you, Dad.*

***Lucky**: I love you, too.*

Cameron is later seen playing video games at Kelly's. A couple of months later, Dr. Matt Hunter takes Cameron to the see the Avengers because Elizabeth had to work.

In 2013, Cameron is seen with his mother and half-brother getting a visit and gifts from grandma Laura. Cameron then attends his grandma's wedding to Scott Baldwin, where he hugs his aunt Lulu, who didn't remember him or anyone else at the time (but she did get her memory back soon after). He later bonds with Laura and his great grandma, Lesley Webber.

In 2014, Cameron and his cousin, Spencer Cassadine are fighting over who get's to be Emma Scorpio-Drake's “boyfriend.” On March 20, 2014, Cameron and Emma start "dating". Cameron and Emma plan to perform the tango at the Nurses' Ball and get instruction from Duke Lavery and Emma's grandmother, Anna Devane. They start to dance together the night of the Nurses' Ball, but their performance is interrupted by Spencer. Spencer introduces the band, *Player*, who sing the song *Baby Come Back* in dedication to Emma. Cameron is later seen helping Ric Lansing reconnect with his mother.

In June 2014, Cameron went to camp with Emma, Josslyn and Spencer. He and Emma were "dating" at the time. On Beggars night 2014, Cameron, Emma and her dad Patrick go see Sam Morgan and then the four of them go to Wyndemere to see Spencer and Josslyn, who is there as well. A couple weeks later, Cameron meets "Jake" aka Jason Morgan. He then has milkshakes with Spencer, Emma and Josslyn. On Christmas, Cameron is General Hospital with Emma, Spencer and Josslyn and gets scared by Dr. Liesl Obrecht. He also receives a kiss from Emma.

In 2015, Cameron goes to Spencer's birthday party, where he and Emma "break up" and he starts "dating" Josslyn (but they have since broken up as well). Before he leaves the party with Josslyn, he accidentally starts a fire that traps Emma and injuries Spencer. When Cameron finds out about the fire he freaks out and asks Ric to be his lawyer but he is told that he doesn't need one. At the 2015 Nurses' Ball, Cameron and Emma are set to perform the tango again but are interrupted yet again by Spencer, who throws sand bags on the stage. It is eventually revealed that Cameron's brother, Jake is alive. Weeks later, Laura hears a scream coming from down stairs and goes to what happened and sees Cameron, with a mask on his face, on the floor holding his head. Jake tells Laura that Cameron fell but Cameron said that Jake pushed him by accident because he didn't like his Halloween mask.

On Halloween, Cameron is seen with his brothers and Jason about to go trick or treating in football costumes. When Jake asks where the candy comes from, Cameron tells him that they go door to door and Jake asks how they know that the people won't hurt them, to which Cameron responds "what?" but Jason tells him that no one is getting hurt because he will be with them the whole time. Just then Elizabeth walks in and they all go trick or treating. He is seen coming home from trick or treating with his family. It is also revealed that last Halloween, Cameron helped himself to Aiden's Halloween candy.

On Thanksgiving, Elizabeth tells Monica that Cameron and Aiden decided to spend the day with her Gram.

On Christmas, Cameron and his brothers talk about what they want for Christmas. Then Elizabeth pulls out the Christmas stockings and they hang them. Then the boys wonder if Jason is going to be there and Elizabeth says she doesn't know because Jason is in jail. Afterwards, Elizabeth sits the boys down and tells them the real story of Christmas. After the story, Jason shows up with presents for the boys. Jake asks if he is home for good so Jason sits the boys down and tells them they have the best mom and that he loves them and will see them a lot but he can't stay. Later on, the boys go see Santa.

On January 8, 2016, Laura states that Cameron and Aiden are staying with Audrey.

On February 4, Jason brings Cameron to General Hospital to comfort his mother after Jake got hit by a car again. Cameron tells Jason that when Jake came back he didn't feel like his brother but now he does. He asks Jason if it's too late for them to be brothers again and Jason says no. After his family's house blew up, he moved into Wyndemere with his mother and brothers. Since his brother Jake needs special care at a hospital out of state, Cameron and Aiden will be staying with Audrey. On February 29, Nikolas brings Cameron and Aiden to visit Jake at Shriners Hospital in Philly. Cameron and Aiden also tell their mom that Spencer sold bow ties to raise money for Shriners. It is also revealed that they are now staying at Wyndemere, not Audrey's. It is later revealed that Cameron and Aiden were playing in the playroom at the hospital and later on, Jake and Danny join them.

On June 22, it was revealed that he and his family are now living at The Brownstone.

On Halloween 2016, Cameron, Jake, Aiden and their mom went trick or treating and then he and Aiden went to a party.

In December, Elizabeth takes Cameron, Jake and Aiden iceskating. On Christmas Eve,

Cameron is seen at GH with his brothers, his mom, grandma Laura, Danny and Monica. Afterwards, Cameron and the boys listen to Monica tell the story of Christmas.

On June 7, 2017, Cameron is seen at GH with his mother because soccer got cancelled. Later on, his aunt Hayden shows up and offers to take him for the day. Then his cousin Spencer shows up and the two bicker a little bit before they go out with Hayden. She takes them to get a treat at the coffee kiosk but things get out of hand when they start arguing about Emma and that's when Spencer starts a food fight, which turns into a full on throwing match, that is stopped their grandma Laura.

On the 4th of July, Cameron met his mother’s oldest friend, Dr. Terry Randolph, then he went to the park where he invaded Oscar and Josslyn’s time to watch the fireworks. He shows an interest in Joss and Oscar becomes slightly uncomfortable because of that.

In August, Cameron was arrested for shoplifting but no charges were pressed. His mother did ground him though. After this incident Cameron and his mother's relationship has been slightly rocky. Cameron also has shown his annoyance and dislike of Franco.

Near the end of 2018, Cameron gets caught buying marijuana for the terminally ill Oscar and goes to court. He is put on probation and will have to do community service.

In March 2019, Cameron, Josslyn, Oscar, and Trina go to Niagara Falls and Oscar has a seizure due to his brain tumor. Cameron also runs into Ryan Chamberlain, He gets away from him luckily and because of this, he missed his community service. His punishment for this is losing his driving permit and he will still have to do community service.

On August 6, Cameron saw a man on the ground and asked if he was okay. Sadly, that man turned out to be Hank "Shiloh" Archer who kidnapped him at gunpoint and took him to 721 Dewitt where he ordered Dr. Arthur Cabot to implant Andrew Cain's memories into Cameron. Drew and Curtis bust the door down and rescued Cameron. Drew attacked Shiloh and pulled his gun on Cabot and threatened to kill him and Cabot explained that the procedure cannot be stopped or reversed but there was a chance it may not work. Cabot and Shiloh's hands were tied up behind their backs as Elizabeth and Detective Harrison Chase showed up. Chase arrested Shiloh first and Cabot asked Drew to untie him.

At the hospital, Cameron got a checkup before giving the police his statement on what happened. Cabot had been taken into custody and Cameron saw Shiloh and Drew talking. Cameron was furious and went to attack Shiloh but was restrained by Drew who told the police officer to get Shiloh out of there. Drew calmed Cameron down and told him that Shiloh will pay but they have to do it the right way. He consoled him by saying they needed a lot less "Shilohs" in the world and more "Cameron Webbers."

On October 31, before Cameron went to the Halloween party on the Haunted Star, he swiped some alcohol from Sonny's house and put it in a plastic bottle. He later revealed this to Josslyn who ended up agreeing to drink with him. They later got drunk at the Halloween party and were found by Dev and Trina, however Lulu and Dustin Phillips caught Joss and Cameron and later called Elizabeth, who later took him to the hospital while she could finish her shift. Eventually, the next day, Cameron went to talk to Sonny who gave him a talking to and a lecture about making the right or wrong choices.

On November 25, Cameron, Josslyn, Trina and Dev were all in detention, even though Trina and Dev did not do anything wrong. They were bored so they began sharing secrets with each other which led to Dev slipping up about the story he was supposed to stick to when it came to his identity. Cameron and Trina grew suspicious so Dev finally confessed that his name is not Devin Corbin, it's Dev Cerci and that he is actually from Turkey. He revealed that he is in the country illegally and that if they discovered his true identity then he will be deported which cannot happen. Dev, Cameron, Trina and Joss make a pact to never bring this up again.

On New Year's Eve, Cameron finally got off of probation so he and Trina celebrated together before Dev and Josslyn showed up. They also noticed that Josslyn was acting strange and had a hunch that she was into Dev.

On February 19, 2020, Cameron and Trina were at Kelly's and they had been planning to attend the winter dance to make Josslyn notice them since Cameron was into her. Eventually, Trina's dad Marcus Taggert showed up and Trina was excited to see him. Cameron was a bit nervous and kept addressing Taggert as sir and he wanted to prove to him that he is worthy of taking Trina to the dance. Taggert requested that Cameron should make sure Trina gets home safe and sound.

On February 26, Cameron and Trina were finally ready to go to the dance and they got into the back of a rideshare car and their driver was supposed to get them to the dance. However, the rider was actually a man named Walker, who was working for an imprisoned mob boss and head of a drug cartel named Cyrus Renault. He eventually kidnapped them both at gunpoint and told them to hand over their phones, and they did but Cameron managed to get a text sent to his mom that he and Trina had been kidnapped. Eventually, Walker took them to a warehouse and held them hostage as a way to lure Taggert there.

Eventually, Taggert showed up and demanded for them to let Cameron and Trina go but after learning that they wouldn't, a shootout broke out and eventually Curtis showed up and got Trina out of there after Taggert had been shot and Cameron tried to escape. Cameron tripped and fell down and was about to be killed by a gunman but Jason showed up on time and shot him dead in Cameron's defense. Cameron begged Jason to save Taggert and Trina and Jason promised him that he's going to help them and when Curtis and Trina showed up, Jason told Cameron and Trina to hide in a car while they would go back for Taggert.

Trina screamed as Cameron led her to the car while Jason and Curtis went back for Taggert guns a blazin. Trina wanted to go back for her dad but Cameron managed to talk her down however he was shocked when Trina revealed that her dad got shot. Eventually she threw up and then she tried to go back but Cameron stopped her and they got back in the car. Eventually, Curtis and Jason got Trina and Cameron to the hospital where Elizabeth and Lucky hugged Cameron and made sure he and Trina were okay.

Cameron eventually went to thank Jason for saving his life before he offered Trina some support. Eventually, Taggert developed a blood clot that went to his brain and he died while Trina was getting him some malted milk balls. When Trina learned what happened, she was devastated and she broke down into tears. Eventually, after sitting next to her father's dead body, Cameron and his family took Trina home with them for the night.

The next day, Trina and Cameron talked things over and he tried to console and comfort her, and later on Ava and Nikolas Cassadine showed up and Ava offered Trina her condolences. Eventually, Trina's mom Portia Robinson showed up and picked up Trina before thanking Elizabeth, Lucky and Cameron for watching over Trina and for helping her.

On March 10, Cameron and Josslyn went to Taggert's "memorial" to support Trina.
1. ↑ Ric receives a call from Audrey on May 11, 2004, saying Elizabeth had the baby in California.
2. ↑ On December 19, 2018, Elizabeth said that Cam was 15.