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 .
