The youngest will have seen it in the series Beverly Hills, 90210 and the older ones will especially remember him playing the father of young Tom Cruise in the film Risky Business (1983)…The American Comedian Nicholas Pryor89, died of cancer on Monday October 7, 2024, in Wilmington (United States).
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It was his colleague Jon Lindstrom who announced it in a tweet published Tuesday, October 8: “Nick was an exceptional actor and friend,” he wrote. He has had an exceptional career in theater, film and television […] I will miss him terribly, as will his wife Christina, his daughter Stacey and his two grandchildren, Gus and Avril. RIP.”
The actor, whose career spans seven decades, has played numerous on-screen father roles: that of Tom Cruise in the film Risky Businessthat of Robert Downey Jr in Less than Zero (1987) or that of Kathleen Robertson’s character in the series Beverly Hills, 90210 (for 26 episodes, from 1994 to 1997), specifies Variety.
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We were also able to see this “subscriber to supporting roles” in the series Port Charles (the spin-off of Central Hospital), in which he played the eccentric Victor Collins, but also in Life at five. We saw him, more recently, make a brief appearance in Hunger Games: Rebellion, part 1 and in the Marvel miniseries Falcon and the Winter Soldier.