View Full Version : Ryan's Hope star John Gabriel dies at 90


TMC
06-14-2021, 06:47 PM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-gabriel-dead-ryans-hope-1234967378/

Gabriel played the controlling Dr. Seneca Beaulac for the first 10 years of the 1975-1989 ABC soap opera. He also played The Professor in the original Gilligan's Island pilot and recurred as WJM-TV sportscaster Andy Rivers on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. “It is with an unspeakably heavy heart that I share the news of my father’s passing,” wrote his daughter, Lost actress Andrea Gabriel. “John Gabriel was my hero, my role model, and my champion, but above all, my daddy. … I will love you forever.”

shandy630
06-15-2021, 03:31 PM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-gabriel-dead-ryans-hope-1234967378/

Gabriel played the controlling Dr. Seneca Beaulac for the first 10 years of the 1975-1989 ABC soap opera. He also played The Professor in the original Gilligan's Island pilot and recurred as WJM-TV sportscaster Andy Rivers on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. “It is with an unspeakably heavy heart that I share the news of my father’s passing,” wrote his daughter, Lost actress Andrea Gabriel. “John Gabriel was my hero, my role model, and my champion, but above all, my daddy. … I will love you forever.”

He's at least the second good/popular soap actor to pass away this year. John Reilly (ATWT, GH, Passions) being another one that pops to mind.