Three\u2019s Company,<\/a>\u201d \u201cSoap,\u201d and appeared in more than 300 commercials. He also acted in theater productions and produced plays in both New York and Los Angeles. <\/p>\nAccording to his daughters, the actor joked that his \u201celastic face\u201d landed him multiple national commercials that ran concurrently. Casting directors looking for a \u201cPaul Avery type\u201d would turn the actor away because he was in too many commercials. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a teeny tiny part \u2014 one line in Superman \u2014 but boy did he make a meal out of that,\u201d Sanchez joked. <\/p>\n
Kyle Avery added that at the Oscars, they played a clip from \u201cSuperman\u201d that featured Paul reciting his line. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis good friend ran into the kitchen and made him an Oscar out of tinfoil and handed it to him,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I think the thing that he was proudest of was that he could make a living as an actor.\u201d <\/p>\n
Paul Avery was born Oct. 8, 1941; and Sheila Avery was born May 22, 1949. Paul was raised in Indianapolis, served in the Vietnam War in his 20s and moved to Los Angeles and then New York by his late 20s to try to make it as an actor. Sheila was raised in Kansas City, Mo., and moved to New York where she worked as a registered nurse but also had a background in theater. <\/p>\n
She studied the craft in college, performed on a USO tour in Vietnam and worked as a costume mistress. <\/p>\n
According to the couple\u2019s daughters, the two brought their Midwest charm and sensibilities to the East Coast.<\/p>\n
The couple met while living in an apartment building filled with other journeymen actors in the late 1970s. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey were all part of this theater community, people who would go from regional theater to regional theater with the season,\u201d Kyle Avery said. \u201cThey were a whole troupe of people who\u2019d be in New York for part of the year, but then they\u2019d go and be in Lakewood, Ohio, or Kansas City or Chicago, just following the theater.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sheila was previously married to John Quincy Bruce Jr., also an actor in the New York theater community and the father of Sanchez. Sheila and Paul got together in 1982 and married in 1984. They celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary in April. <\/p>\n
Paul was a jack-of-all-trades and master of many. He was a small plane pilot who often flew into a tiny airport in Blairstown, N.J., which is how the couple discovered the town they\u2019d call home. There, they opened a bookstore, Cabbages and Kings. Paul also launched a magazine: the Warren County Companion. According to the couple\u2019s daughters, Paul was the first internet service provider in town. He also penned film reviews for the New Jersey Herald and some for the New York Times as well.<\/p>\n
Sheila found what her daughters called the \u201cperfect job,\u201d which brought together her work as a registered nurse and background in theater: speaking in schools about domestic violence and sexual assault. She also became a counselor who worked with survivors, and a trainer who worked with volunteers, teaching them how to interact with victims. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who took her training 20 years ago have been contacting us and saying, \u2018Your mother changed the way I thought about the world, she is the basis for my feminism,\u2019\u201d Sanchez said. \u201cIt\u2019s been so fascinating to hear the ripple effects of young women who took that training from her, and who are now middle-aged women who are still thinking about her.\u201d <\/p>\n
The daughters said that their parents were community icons who were dedicated to service. \u201cThey had a sense of duty to the people around them,\u201d Kyle Avery said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey loved to throw parties,\u201d Sanchez said. \u201cThey hosted an annual event called Faux Giving and they would have these insane traditions, like we would have a head-measuring contest and measure the circumference of people\u2019s heads, and then a winner gets to eat their pie first, and a badge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever had the smallest head, everyone there would shout, \u2018Pin head! Pin head!\u2019 at this person, and it was the silliest thing in the world, but everyone who attended that event, even if they came one time, would talk about it forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Avery added, \u201cThey were incredibly memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were community builders, they were people who wanted to nourish you in every way, and they were so good at it.\u201d <\/p>\n
They are survived by their children: Kyle Avery; Parker Sanchez and her husband, Pablo; Paul Avery\u2019s son from a previous relationship, Stuart Sutherland; and their grandchildren, Avery, Duncan and Liana.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Avery, a journeyman actor best known for his role on \u201cAll My Children,\u201d and his wife, Sheila, have died following a house fire. He was 81 and she was 77. The couple\u2019s death was confirmed by their daughters Parker Sanchez and Kyle Avery, who said the fire broke out in their home in Blairstown, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2471406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/All-My-Children-star-Paul-Avery-and-wife-Sheila-killed.com2Fdb2Fca2F4fe1a18b4d259c6f58796907.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471405","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=2471405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471407,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471405\/revisions\/2471407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}