Coleman Ratcliffe
Actor History
Blake Gibbons (recurring: 7 July 2002 to present)
Other Names
Cole Ratcliffe (full name; revealed 2 December 2002)
Mitchell Coleman (according to ABC.com)
Coleman's full name has only been mentioned that one time.
Occupation
Owner of Jake's Bar
Former Owner of The Oasis
Resides At
Port Charles
Marital Status
Single/Never Been Married
Past Marriages
None (assumed)
Relatives
Unknown
Children
None (assumed)
Flings & Affairs
Courtney Matthews (unrequited obsession)
Skye Chandler Quartermaine (lovers)
Samantha McCall (flirtation)
Tracy Quartermaine (flirtation)
Crimes Committed
Accepted $250,000 from A.J. Quartermaine to 'stalk' Courtney so that she would stay with him. [October 2005]
Claimed to have run down Nikolas Cassadine with his car (it was actually Skye). [9 December 2002]
Blackmailed Skye, threatening to tell everyone she hit Nikolas if she didn't help him polish his image. [10 December 2002]
Helped A.J. and Skye frame Brenda Barrett for Luis Alcazar's murder. [December 2002]
Overheard Skye confess to killing Luis Alcazar but promised he wouldn't turn her in to the police. [26 December 2002]
Paid Ida Warren off so that she would continue to say she saw Brenda push Luis and that Jason had paid her to leave town. [30 December 2002]
Teamed up with Faith Rosco so that they could get to Sonny Corinthos. [February 2003]
Attempted to steal the Blackthorn treasure without success at an auction. [5 February 2004]
Helped Tracy Quartermaine cover up Ross Duncan's murder. [April/May 2004]
Fabricated information on Carly's father at her request to keep Sonny from learning it was John Durant. [September 2004]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Shot by Courtney Matthews while he was masked as her stalker. [31 October 2002]
Brief Character History
Coleman owned The Oasis, the bar that a drunken A.J. crashed into. In order to keep Coleman from turning A.J. over to the police, Courtney agreed to strip for him, and was quite successful until A.J., not realising Courtney had paid off their debt, set fire to Coleman's bar. Jason leaned on Coleman, telling him that he had witnesses who would claim that Coleman set his own bar on fire, and Coleman accepted a lump sum of cash from Jason to keep his mouth shut. Coleman used that money to buy Jake's Bar. Coleman continued to be intertwined with the Quartermaines, and it wasn't long before he was revealed to be the man stalking Courtney. Courtney shot him with a gun Jason had given her for protection, and when Coleman ended up in the hospital, he made it through surgery and told Taggart that A.J. had hired him to stalk Courtney so that she would stay with him. This was the end of things for Courtney and A.J. and the beginning of Courtney and Jason, although Coleman didn't give up his plans on being with Courtney.
After seeing a drunken Skye Chandler run down Nikolas Cassadine with his car, Coleman stepped forward and took the blame. His plan was to convince Skye to help him look like a better man in the hopes that Courtney would turn to him and he tried to blackmail Skye to make that happen, but the two fell into bed together. When Luis Alcazar was murdered, Coleman found out from a feverish Skye that she was actually the killer, but paired up with her and A.J. Quartermaine to frame Brenda and to protect Skye. Luckily Skye proved to be innocent, and Coleman was soon free to pair up with Faith Rosco, who wanted to use him to get close to Sonny Corinthos. He remained in A.J.'s pocket, though, and was soon charged with taking incriminating photos of Sonny and Faith. He told Faith, who not only agreed, but offered to help him out!
Once Faith was out of the picture, Coleman hired on to Tracy Quartermaine, who wanted him to steal the treasure from The Courage on her behalf. Unfortunately, a fire at the hotel put a crimp in his plans, and Luke ended up with the treasure. Coleman next took a try at playing private investigator, and was instrumental in helping Carly find her father. Once they learned that her father was John Durant, a prosecutor famous for his vendetta against the mob, Coleman helped Carly conceal the truth from Sonny, lying about what kind of man her father really was. He then enjoyed a turn as Tracy Quartermaine's boy toy, throwing himself back into the mix of things when he agreed to take compromising photos of Nikolas and Emily so that Jax could try to use them to win back Courtney.
Coleman came close to getting himself in trouble when Emily and Nikolas were jumped at Jake's, but managed to diffuse the situation and, later, to diffuse an angry Sonny. Shortly after, he found himself in the middle of trouble again when Frank and Lucas got into it at his bar. When Courtney died, a grieving Coleman attended her funeral to say goodbye to a young woman that he had always respected.
