Former soap opera star “General Hospital” and “Dallas” John Reilly died, his daughter said on Sunday.
Reilly was 84, according to his IMDb profile.
The handsome actor with a dimple in his chin got a recurring role in the hit soap opera “Dallas” in the early 1980s before getting a spot on ABC’s daytime show “General Hospital” as retired spy Sean Donely.
He was so popular at one point that unrelated star actor John C. Reilly had to add his middle initial to his name to be identified separately, director Judd Apatow once tweeted.
“The brightest light in the world has gone out. Imagine the best person in the world. Now imagine that person being your father, ” John Reilly’s daughter Caitlin Reilly wrote on Instagram on Sunday – alongside a photo of her father hugging her when she was a little girl.
“I’m so grateful that he’s mine,” she added of John Reilly.
“I am so grateful to love you. I am so grateful to have arrived in time to hug him and say goodbye. Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know he’ll be with me. I love you forever daddy. “