Cleaning soap opera veteran John Reilly has died. He was 84.
The late actor’s daughter Caitlin Reilly introduced the information by way of Instagram on Sunday, January 10. She didn’t share the reason for dying.
“John Henry Matthew Reilly AKA Jack. The brightest mild on the earth has gone out. Think about the very best particular person on the earth. Now think about that particular person being your dad,” the TikTok character, 31, captioned a childhood picture together with her father. “I’m so grateful he was mine. I’m so grateful I acquired to like him. I’m so grateful I made it in time to carry him and say goodbye. I truthfully don’t know what I’m going to do, however I do know he’ll be with me. I really like you ceaselessly Daddy.”
John was born in Chicago and commenced appearing in his 30s with single-episode roles in TV reveals together with A Man Referred to as Shenandoah, The Mary Tyler Moore Present, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii 5-O, Surprise Lady, The Unbelievable Hulk, The Love Boat and Three’s Firm.
In 1974, John changed John Colenback as Dr. Dan Stewart on Because the World Turns, a personality he performed till 1976. He acquired his massive break in 1984 when he began portraying Sean Donely on Common Hospital. He starred on the ABC collection, which is the longest-running American cleaning soap opera in manufacturing, till Sean was written off in 1995 when he and his spouse, Tiffany Hill (Sharon Wyatt), moved out of city. John briefly reprised the function in 2013 in honor of Common Hospital’s fiftieth anniversary yr.
John went on to have a recurring function on Beverly Hills, 90210 as Invoice Taylor, the absentee father of Jennie Garth’s character, Kelly Taylor, earlier than returning to the cleaning soap opera world. In 1997, he joined the solid of Sundown Seaside as Del Douglas, which was initially speculated to be a visitor function however stored him on the NBC present till 1999.
John made cameos in different soaps resembling Melrose Place and Days of Our Lives within the early 2000s earlier than signing on to Passions in 2005. He took over the late David Bailey’s character, Alistair Crane, on the drama, which aired on NBC and later DirecTV’s The 101 Community. Alistair was killed off in 2008.
John, who made his final onscreen look throughout Common Hospital’s fiftieth anniversary season, was nominated for a Cleaning soap Opera Digest Award in 1986 for his function as Sean Donely.
He’s survived by his spouse, Liz Reilly, whom he married in 1981, and three daughters.
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