Soap opera heavyweight Nicolas Coster, the British-born American star who was best known for his work on Another World, Santa Barbara and All My Children, has died aged 89.
The news was confirmed via a Facebook post made by the actor’s daughter, Dinneen Coster, who wrote, “It’s with great sadness that I am posting this to my father’s book page. Nicolas Coster passed on this evening in a hospital in Florida.”
She continued: “Please remember him as a great artist. He was an actor’s actor!”
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“I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father!! Rest In Peace,” she concluded.
Coster will be most affectionately remembered as Robert Delaney on the NBC series Another World, a character he played between 1970 and 1979.
The actor also portrayed Steve Andrews on All My Children from 1988 to 1989 as well as Mayor Jack Madison on The Bay from 2010 to 2019.
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Another one of his leading roles was on the series Santa Barbara, where Coster played Lionel Lockridge. Coster briefly left the show citing grievances with a potential storyline on the show, however, he returned from 1990 to the show’s end in 1993.
That role earned Coster four Daytime Emmy awards and his more recent role as Mayor Jack Madison on The Bay also earned him his first ever Emmy.
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Coster also has an impressive film acting resume with acting credits for movies such as the Titanic (1953), All The President’s Men, The Desert Rats, and Sea of Lost Ships.
It also appears that even though Coster was fast approaching his nineties, he had no desire to stop acting.
Coster racked up acting credits in American Crime Story, Netflix’s Dead to Me (starring Christina Applegate) and The Rookie: Feds all within the last few years.
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