Frank's Age????

No, Frank was indeed supposed to have been born in 1946 (since that would dovetail with the first wave of births of babies born after the end of WW2 - my Aunt was also born in 1946, about 9 or so months after my grandfather returned from the Pacific Theater). Rae would've been born around 1944 or 1945, it was always said she was older than Frank.

Where they seem to be changing the storyline/history a bit was that, IIRC, Rae married the publishing tycoon Bill Woodard in the late '60s ('69 ?), when she would've been about the age of 24 (I think she was having an affair with him prior to that when he was married to his first(?) wife), and she's been saying now (to Kimberly, at least) that she didn't take up with or marry Bill until her "late 20s", which would've meant she'd not have married him until at least 1973-75. Now, that might also be Rae "exaggerating" so as not to admit she was only about 4 years or so older than Kim when she took up with a man even older than Seneca.

They may have mentioned Seneca's age at some point, but (like Michael Levin's Jack Fenelli), he is not as old as John Gabriel (I believe he is supposed to be early 40s or mid 40s). Levin being paired with Kate Mulgrew or Nicollette Goulet should've raised some eyebrows, since he was 2 decades older, but I think the real problem some Ryan's Hope fans have with the Seneca-Kim relationship is that it seems like a far wider disparity (the "twice her age" almost seems more like triple), since Gabriel's Seneca seems closer to 50 and Kelli Maroney's Kim more like her mid teens in some of her petulant behavior (although body-wise, she looks more like early 20s). Maroney is about the same age as Kate Mulgrew was in the first year, but you can see the dramatic difference between the two of them (with Mulgrew at 19 or 20 almost having the maturity of someone in her 40s).

Anyway, getting back to Frank for a moment, he was supposed to have been 29 in the first year and Michael Hawkins as the first Frank was 40 (although I saw another source that claimed he may have been born in 1929 or 1930, making him 46), and it was a stretch seeing Hawkins playing the son of Maeve and Johnny when he wasn't much younger than either. Seeing him acting opposite Ilene Kristen, who was even less mature than Kimberly (and just about 23 at the time), when he could often appear older than his real age was a little creepy sometimes, especially in their bedroom scenes. Even when Hawkins had early scenes with Jillian, he seemed more like an old letch (their characters were supposed to be about the same age, not the 15 (or more) years difference between the actors). I still grew to appreciate Hawkins in the role, he did have some good scenes with Jillian and at the start of the love triangle between them and Seneca. But the problem was that Hawkins was just too old for the role, and had he lasted into the '80s when he was in his 50s playing 30s, it would've begun to look even more absurd. At least Daniel Hugh Kelly is more age-appropriate.