Nicholas Pryor, whose nearly seven-decade acting career included hundreds of soap operas, played Tom Cruise's father on Risky Business and Kathleen Robertson's father on Beverly Hills, 90210, died on October 7. He was 89.
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Fellow actor Jon Lindstrom announced the news on social media, saying in part, "Nick was an actor's actor and an exceptional friend. … He was a mentor, a sounding board, a trusted confidant, and even a father figure, in addition to, yes, playing my own father on #GH and #PortCharles." See his full post below.
Pryor amassed nearly 175 screen credits and a half dozen more on Broadway. After making his screen start as a guest on such 1950s and early 1960s TV series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Doctors, he played Tom Baxter in more than 75 episodes of the NBC drama Another World. That led to a starring role in The Nurses, a 1965-67 sequel to CBS's The Nurses, which had ended in 1965.
He then landed a starring role in the first season of the CBS soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and later guest-starred on the soap operas All My Children and The Edge of Night.
