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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
Hollywood has mislaid a begetter figure.
Nicholas Pryor—the histrion known for playing Tom Cruise's dada successful Risky Business, Robert Downey Jr.'s estranged begetter successful Less Than Zero and the genitor of Kathleen Robertson successful Beverly Hills, 90210—died of crab Oct. 7 astatine his North Carolina home, his wife Christine Belford told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 89.
In a handwritten enactment posthumously delivered to the outlet, Pryor wrote that helium was "enormously grateful to person been, for astir 70 years, a moving actor."
Indeed, Pryor's onscreen vocation spanned backmost decades, with the histrion starting retired successful the '70s with roles connected Smile and The Gumball Rally.
He went connected to look successful '80s hits specified arsenic Airplane!, Risky Business and Less Than Zero, earlier landing a recurring relation connected Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1994 to 1997.
As a quality actor, Pryor worked connected galore soap operas, including The Secret Storm, The Edge of Night, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, All My Children and Another World. However, his astir notable soap relation was Victor Collins connected the General Hospital spinoff Port Charles, which helium played from 1997 to 2002.
In the aftermath of Pryor's death, his onscreen lad Jon Lindstrom described him arsenic an "actor's actor" and an "exceptional friend."
"One of the champion I've ever had," Lindstrom wrote successful an Oct. 8 Instagram post. "He was a mentor, a sounding board, a trusted confidant, and adjacent a father-figure beyond, yes, playing my ain begetter connected #GH and #PortCharles."
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Calling Pryor "one of the funniest radical you could anticipation to walk clip with implicit a vessel of bully vino and a large meal," Lindstrom added of his erstwhile costar, "I volition miss him terribly, arsenic volition his beauteous woman Christina, his daughter Stacey, and his 2 grandchildren, Gus and Avril. R.I.P."
In his career, Pryor held implicit 170 acting credits. In caller years, helium appeared connected shows including Hart of Dixie, Nashville and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, arsenic good arsenic successful films specified arsenic The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and Doctor Sleep.
"He shared the surface with the likes of #JackNicholson #KurtRussell #EwanMcGregor," Lindstrom noted successful his tribute. "Too galore to sanction really."
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