Veteran actor Chris Robinson, who starred within the daytime cleaning soap operas Common Hospital and The Daring and the Stunning, has died. He was 86.
The passing was confirmed in a Fb put up by MJ Allen, the actor and musician who labored with Robinson on the 2022 movie Simply For A Week. Sharing the put up to the Common Hospital Followers Web page, Allen revealed Robinson “peacefully handed in his sleep at his ranch close to Sedona, Arizona at 12:30am on June 9, 2025.”
“He had been in coronary heart failure for a while, and is his official reason behind loss of life,” Allen added.
Born on November 5, 1938, in West Palm Seashore, Florida, Robinson started his appearing profession within the Fifties, showing in movies reminiscent of Diary of a Excessive College Bride and Beast from Haunted Cave. From there, he moved into tv, showing in sequence reminiscent of Colt. 45, The Donna Reed Present, Sea Hunt, Demise Valley Days, Gunsmoke, Wagon Practice, and The Fugitive.
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His first important position got here in 1965 when he performed Technical Sergeant Sandy Komansky within the ABC drama 12 O’Clock Excessive. He appeared in a recurring position between 1965 and 1967, starring in 47 episodes.
All through the Seventies, Robinson wrote, directed, and acted in a number of movies, together with Catch the Black Sunshine (1974), Thunder County (1974), The Intruder (1975) and The Nice Balloon Race (1977).
Then, in 1978, he joined Common Hospital as Dr. Rick Webber, who was romantically concerned with Denise Alexander’s Lesley. He left the cleaning soap in 1986 earlier than returning in 2002. His character was finally killed off in 2013 when he was bludgeoned with a candlestick.
In 1985, Robinson pleaded responsible to federal revenue tax evasion however continued to work on Common Hospital by serving his sentence on nights and weekends as a part of a jail work-release provision.
He additionally loved a prolonged stint on CBS’ The Daring and the Stunning between 1992 and 2002, enjoying Jack Hamilton, who was entangled in romances with Stephanie Douglas (Susan Flannery) and her nemesis, Sally Spectra (Darlene Conley). His ultimate look got here in 2005.
In between his stints on Common Hospital and The Daring and the Stunning, Robinson appeared as Jason Body on NBC’s One other World from 1987 to 1989.
He’s survived by his fourth spouse, Jacquie, and his youngsters, Shane, Coby, Christian, Christopher, Chris and Taylor, and grandchildren Ivy, Ava, Davey, Brooks and Knox.