{"id":14307,"date":"2025-12-18T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14307"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:32:23","slug":"general-hospital-icon-anthony-geary-dead-at-78-three-days-after-planned-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14307","title":{"rendered":"\u2018General Hospital\u2019 icon Anthony Geary dead at 78 \u2013 three days after planned surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"257\">Anthony Geary, the Emmy-winning actor best known as Luke Spencer on <em data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"164\">General Hospital<\/em>, has died at 78. ABC confirmed his passing, praising his role in shaping daytime television.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"453\">Reports say Geary died in Amsterdam from complications following a planned surgical procedure. Over his 40-year career, he won eight Daytime Emmy Awards after joining <em data-start=\"426\" data-end=\"444\">General Hospital<\/em> in 1978.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"656\">His iconic on-screen pairing with Genie Francis\u2019 Laura became a cultural phenomenon, with their 1981 TV wedding drawing over 30 million viewers. Francis called Geary \u201ca powerhouse\u201d and \u201cone of a kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"658\" data-end=\"790\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Geary appeared on the soap on and off until 2015, with a final cameo in 2017, leaving behind a lasting legacy in television history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Geary, the Emmy-winning actor best known as Luke Spencer on General Hospital, has died at 78. ABC confirmed his passing, praising his role in shaping daytime television. Reports say Geary died in Amsterdam from complications following a planned surgical procedure. Over his 40-year career, he won eight Daytime Emmy Awards after joining General Hospital&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=14307\" 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":14308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14307","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\/14307","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=14307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14309,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14307\/revisions\/14309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}