Former “General Hospital” and “Dallas” TV soap star John Reilly has died, his daughter said Sunday.
Reilly was 84, according to his IMDb profile.
The handsome, dimpled actor landed a recurring role on the popular nighttime soap opera ‘Dallas’ in the early 1980s before landing a spot on the top ABC daytime series ‘General Hospital’ as retired spy Sean Donely.
He was so popular at one point that unrelated lead actor John C. Reilly had to add his middle initial to his name to be identified separately, director Judd Apatow ever tweeted.
“The brightest light in the world has gone out. Imagine the best person in the world. Now imagine that person is your dad, ” John Reilly’s daughter, Caitlin Reilly, wrote on Instagram on Sunday – alongside a photo of her dad hugging her as a little girl.
“I’m so grateful he was mine,” she added of John Reilly.
‘I am so grateful to have come to love him. I am so grateful I made it in time to hold him and say hello. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know he will be with me. I love you daddy forever. “