{"id":2200145,"date":"2025-12-15T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2200145"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:41:59","slug":"general-hospital-star-anthony-geary-dead-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/general-hospital-star-anthony-geary-dead-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"‘General Hospital’ Star Anthony Geary Dead at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anthony Geary<\/strong>, who famously played Luke Spencer on “General Hospital,” is dead … TMZ has confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The soap opera star died Sunday in Amsterdam … according to a family member.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthony’s official cause of death is unclear, but there are reports he died as a result of complications from a planned surgery in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n


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Anthony won eight Daytime Emmy Awards and is mostly known for his role on “General Hospital” … though he also made appearances on “The Partridge Family,” “The Mod Squad,” “All in the Family” and “The Young and the Restless.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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On “General Hospital,” Anthony and Genie Francis <\/strong>became the signature couple among soap operas … and when their characters got married in 1981, a whopping 30 million people tuned in for the TV nuptials, with Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor<\/strong><\/a> — a huge ‘GH’ fan — making a cameo.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthony was born in Utah and raised by Morman parents. He earned a theater scholarship to the University of Utah and got his career started as a stage actor before moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s and getting into Hollywood.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthony was 78.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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RIP<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.tmz.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘General Hospital’ Anthony Geary Dead at 78 Published December 15, 2025 9:38 AM PST Anthony Geary, who famously played Luke Spencer on “General Hospital,” is dead … TMZ has confirmed. The soap opera star died Sunday in Amsterdam … according to a family member. Anthony’s official cause of death is unclear, but there are reports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2200146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22188,21944,21738,352792],"class_list":["post-2200145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-hip-hop","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/General-Hospital-Star-Anthony-Geary-Dead-at-78.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200147,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200145\/revisions\/2200147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}