{"id":14204,"date":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14204"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:01:10","slug":"general-hospital-icon-anthony-geary-dead-at-78-three-days-after-planned-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14204","title":{"rendered":"\u2018General Hospital\u2019 icon Anthony Geary dead at 78 \u2013 three days after planned surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"280\">Anthony Geary, the actor best known for playing Luke Spencer on <em data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"149\">General Hospital<\/em>, has died at the age of 78. ABC confirmed his passing, saying his portrayal of Luke helped define the show and daytime television.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"623\">Geary died in Amsterdam from complications following a planned surgical procedure. He starred on <em data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"397\">General Hospital<\/em> from 1978 through 2015, earning eight Daytime Emmy Awards. His on-screen pairing with Genie Francis\u2019 Laura became iconic, with their 1981 wedding drawing over 30 million viewers and even featuring a cameo by Elizabeth Taylor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"805\">Francis paid tribute, calling Geary \u201ca powerhouse\u201d and \u201cone of a kind.\u201d Beyond Luke Spencer, he appeared on other soaps including <em data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"783\">The Young and the Restless<\/em> and <em data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"804\">Bright Promise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"807\" data-end=\"904\">Geary returned briefly in 2017 and often spoke of how deeply he embodied his legendary character.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"935\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Rest in peace, Anthony Geary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Geary, the actor best known for playing Luke Spencer on General Hospital, has died at the age of 78. ABC confirmed his passing, saying his portrayal of Luke helped define the show and daytime television. Geary died in Amsterdam from complications following a planned surgical procedure. He starred on General Hospital from 1978 through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14204\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018General Hospital\u2019 icon Anthony Geary dead at 78 \u2013 three days after planned surgery&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14206,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions\/14206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}