Nick Benedict, a cleaning soap opera actor who was on “Days of Our Lives,” “All My Kids,” and “The Younger and the Stressed,” has died.
He was 76 years outdated.
Barbara Ferrante, the proprietor of Jakes’s Steakhouse in Tehachapi, California, the place Benedict’s spouse Ginger works as a bartender, confirmed the information to Fox Information Digital.
“Nick Benedict’s birthday was July 14. He went to be with the Lord today. Please pray for Ginger,” a Fb publish from Jake’s Steakhouse mentioned.
A fundraising web page organized earlier than his demise mentioned Ginger had taken a depart of absence from the restaurant after he underwent emergency spinal twine surgical procedure and was admitted to hospice.
“He’s paralyzed from the neck down,” the publish mentioned, including that the couple had been married for 22 years and dwell in Arizona whereas Ginger travels forwards and backwards to California.
The couple acquired loads of condolences on social media and on the fundraising web page.
One particular person wrote, “We now have recognized Ginger and Nick since shifting to Bear Valley 19 years in the past. They have been such part of the group in each manner, and at all times nice enjoyable. So sorry!”
Benedict performed Phillip Brent, Erica Kane’s (Susan Lucci) husband on “All My Kids” within the 1970s.
In 1980, he was on the “Younger and the Stressed.”
He went on to play Curtis Reed on “Days of Our Lives” from 1993 to 2001.
He was additionally on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Adam-12,” “Ironside,” “Knots Touchdown” and the “Mission: Unattainable” TV collection from the 1960s to 1980s, in accordance with his IMDb web page.