Overview
- Geary died on Dec. 14 in the Netherlands following complications from surgery performed three days earlier, according to his husband Claudio Gama in comments to TV Insider.
- Best known for originating Luke Spencer in 1978, he became one half of TV’s Luke-and-Laura pairing, whose 1981 wedding drew about 30 million viewers.
- He won a record eight Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding lead actor and was nominated 16 times over a career that spanned nearly four decades on the ABC soap.
- Geary retired from full-time work in 2015 and settled in Amsterdam; he made a final on-screen appearance in 2017, and the series later disclosed Luke’s offscreen death in 2022.
- Tributes poured in from the General Hospital community, including heartfelt messages from co-star Genie Francis and executive producer Frank Valentini.