Nicholas Pryor, a busy character actor, plays Tom Cruise’s father in “Tom Cruise.” risky business and father of Catherine Robertson. Beverly Hills, 90210 He died after a career that spanned seventy years. He is 89 years old.
Pryor died Monday at his home in North Carolina, his wife, actress Christine Belford, told reporters. hollywood reporter.
From 1997 to 2002, Pryor played former spy Victor Collins on “The Americans.” general hospital spin off port charleseventually going on to a long career on daytime soap operas, including secret storm, edge of night, Love is such a beautiful thing, all my children and another world.
Pryor reappears on Fox Beverly Hills, 90210 A. Milton Arnold served as UC president from 1994-97 and was the father of Claire Arnold of Robertson. He is the father of Kirsten Bennett, played by Paula Devicq in another Fox series, Party of five.
Previously, he played Vice Principal Jack Feldspar on the 1987-88 NBC series Bronx Zoocreated by Gary David Goldberg and starring Edward Asner.
On the big screen, Pryor played Barbara Fielden’s ill-fated husband in Michael Ritchie’s Smile (1975); pipe-smoking college professor drives AC Cobra in Charles Bail’s bar with Michael Sarrazin Gumball Rally (1976); museum director dies at train station Damian: The Omen II (1978); and Robert Downey Jr. as the drug-addicted father of Julian less than zero (1987).
Nicholas David Probst was born on January 28, 1935 in Baltimore.
While attending Gilman School for Boys in Baltimore and Yale University, Pryor performed at the Drummond Players in Baltimore, the Camden Hill Theater in Maine, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Star Theater in Minneapolis. I honed my acting skills on stage.
After graduating from college in 1956, the lanky Pryor starred in four Broadway plays from 1957-59: With Karl Malden bookwormwith Joan Bennett love me a littlewith Leon Ames Howie with diana douglas tallest tree. However, these four shows lasted a total of 56 performances.
Nicholas Pryor (right) and William Holden in 1978’s Damian: The Omen II.
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In 1958, he made his first appearance in a soap opera. bright day and in 1959 Young Dr. Malone. In 1964, he joined NBC another world was originally cast, but his character Tom Baxter was killed off six months later. He was then hired on the CBS primetime soap opera nurses.
In his feature film debut, Pryor is portrayed as a man in a midlife crisis, our current lifestyle (1970), and then he took turns in man on swing (1974), happy whore (1975), Save Pittsburgh’s Fish (1979) and airplane! (1980).
He returned to Broadway in the 1970s and starred in ” that championship season and thief.
In addition to his Porsche 928 being crashed by Cruise’s Joel Goodsen, risky business (1983), Pryor also appeared in Falcon and Snowman (1985), Morgan Stewart comes home (1987), pacific highlands (1990), Hoffa (1992), Tiaozi (1993), Hail Caesar (1994), Chamber of Commerce (1996), Molly (1999), collateral damage (2002), list (2007), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 (2014), sleep doctor (2019) and Halloween Kills (2021).
He has over 170 acting credits on IMDb and has appeared in dozens of television shows, including Alfred Hitchcock presents, Eight is enough, mashed and little house on the prairie arrive dallas, holy elsewhere, Los Angeles Law, west wing and NYPD Blueand in the mini-series adams chronicle, Washington: Behind closed doors and east of eden.
He and his fourth wife, Belford, were married in July 1993. Beverly Hills, 90210.
