‘Risky Business,’ ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Actor Was 89

Nicholas Pryor, the busy character actor who portrayed Tom Cruise’s father in Dangerous Enterprise and Kathleen Robertson’s dad on Beverly Hills, 90210 throughout a profession that spanned seven a long time, has died. He was 89. Pryor died Monday of most cancers at his house in Wilmington, North Carolina, his spouse, actress Christine Belford, informed The Hollywood Reporter .

In a notice to be delivered to THR after his dying, he wrote: “Nicholas Pryor was enormously grateful to have been, for practically 70 years, a working actor.” From 1997-2002, Pryor performed the previous spy Victor Collins on the Common Hospital spinoff Port Charles , culminating a protracted profession in daytime cleaning soap operas that included stints on The Secret Storm , The Fringe of Evening , Love Is a Many Splendored Factor , All My Kids and One other World . Pryor recurred on Fox’s Beverly Hills, 90210 as A.

Milton Arnold, the chancellor of California College and father of Robertson’s Claire Arnold, from 1994-97. And he was the daddy of Paula Devicq’s character, Kirsten Bennett, on one other Fox sequence, Social gathering of 5 . Earlier, he performed vice principal Jack Feldspar on the 1987-88 NBC drama The Bronx Zoo , created by Gary David Goldberg and starring Edward Asner.

On the large display, Pryor was Barbara Feldon’s hapless husband in Michael Ritchie’s Smile (1975); the pipe-smoking faculty professor who rides with Michael Sarrazin in an AC Cobra in Charles Bail‘s .