Veteran American actor Scott Bryce, best known for playing Craig Montgomery in the long-running soap opera As the World Turns and for his role in Popular, has died. He was 68.
According to Deadline, Bryce’s son, Jackson, confirmed the news on social media, saying the actor died on 12 July after a long battle with cancer. In an Instagram post, he said Scott Bryce had initially been diagnosed with stage-three oesophageal cancer, which later spread to his brain.
Bryce earned consecutive Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1986 and 1987 for his portrayal of the ambitious and womanising Craig Montgomery in As the World Turns. He played the role regularly from early 1982 until mid-1987 before returning for several stints during the late 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. He later also appeared in the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live.
He was also a series regular in Ryan Murphy’s WB comedy-drama Popular, portraying the father of Brooke McQueen, played by Leslie Bibb. His character’s engagement to the mother of Sam McPherson, played by Carly Pope, brought the two lead characters under the same roof. Bryce appeared in all 43 episodes of the series between 1999 and 2001.
Born on 6 January 1958 in New York City, Bryce began his television career with a four-episode role as Rick Bonner in NBC’s The Facts of Life in 1988. Alongside As the World Turns, he built a steady television career with guest appearances in The Golden Girls, The Commish, Who’s the Boss?, L.A. Law and a recurring role as Corky Sherwood’s husband in Murphy Brown.
Although he appeared in a handful of feature films and television movies, Bryce spent most of his career working in television. During the 1990s, he featured in Matlock, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Spin City, Boston Common, Early Edition and Pacific Blue before joining Popular.
His later television credits included Judging Amy, ER, 30 Rock, Reba, Homeland, Gossip Girl, Chicago P.D., Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Fight, The Blacklist and Blue Bloods.
Information about Bryce’s surviving family, apart from his son Jackson, was not immediately available.
