\n\tScott Bryce, who received two Daytime Emmy nominations for his turn as Craig Montgomery on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and portrayed Leslie Bibb\u2019s dad on The WB series Popular, has died. He was 68.<\/p>\n
\n\tBryce died Sunday in New Haven, Connecticut, after a battle with esophageal and stomach cancer, his son, Jackson Bryce, told<\/a> The New York Times. He had been diagnosed with cancer in October 2024 and opened up about<\/a> his health issues with Alan Locher on an episode of The Locher Room last year.<\/p>\n \n\tBryce also showed up on six episodes from 1990-92 as Will Forrest, the husband of Faith Ford\u2019s Corky Sherwood, on CBS\u2019 Murphy Brown.<\/p>\n \n\tThe New York native originated the role of the antihero Craig on As the World Turns in January 1982 and stuck around through May 1987 for the first of his five stretches on the show (also 1988-89, 1990, 1993-94 and 2007-08, when he was fired).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe plots on the show are so much darker than they used to be \u2014 dead babies, pornography, methamphetamines \u2014 and maybe I didn\u2019t fit into that vision,\u201d he said shortly after he was let go. \u201cIt\u2019s not the ATWT I remember from those many years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tExecutive producer Chris Goutman \u201cwould say to me, \u2018This is your character, run with it,\u2019\u201d he added. \u201cBut when I did, he never seemed pleased. Craig, as I understood him, has a need for family and love and fulfillment, and at all costs, which is what creates all the mayhem and madness in his life. Yes, he\u2019s a villain, but he doesn\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBryce was initially paired onscreen with Meg Ryan\u2019s Betsy Stewart Craig, and his character often tussled with Lucinda Walsh (Elizabeth Hubbard) in the town of Oakdale. For his efforts, he was nominated for outstanding lead actor in a drama series at the Daytime Emmys in 1986 and \u201987.<\/p>\n \n\tAs Mike McQueen, the hapless father of Bibb\u2019s Brooke McQueen, Bryce appeared on all 43 episodes of Popular, which was created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews and ran for two seasons (1999-2001). Mike hooks up with Lisa Darr\u2019s Jane McPherson, mother of Sam McPherson (Carly Pope), and that sets the show\u2019s storyline in motion.<\/p>\n \n\tOne of three boys, Scott Macalister Bryce was born in New York on Jan. 6, 1958. His father, Ed Bryce, played Capt. Steve Strong on the 1950s kids TV show Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and, on and off from 1959-83, Bill Bauer on the CBS soap The Guiding Light. His mother, Dorothy Bryce, was a soap actor (The Doctors, Guiding Light) as well.<\/p>\n \n\tBryce attended Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, and the Juilliard School, and in 1977 he played a Roman solider on Broadway in Caesar & Cleopatra, starring Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Ashley.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 1988, he recurred on the ninth and final season on NBC\u2019s The Facts of Life as musician Rick Bonner, who marries Nancy McKeon\u2019s Jo Polniaczek. He then played lawyer James Pavlik on L.A Law on four episodes from 1991-93 and Sen. Tom Wesley on six installments of CBS\u2019 Beacon Hill from 2014-20.<\/p>\n \n\tHis TV r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included a stint as Dr. Ed Crosby on ABC\u2019s One Life to Live in 2006 and primetime guest-star turns on The Golden Girls, Who\u2019s the Boss?, Homicide: Life on the Street, Sex and the City, Judging Amy, ER, 30 Rock, Homeland, Chicago P.D., Blue Bloods and Law & Order.<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to his son, survivors include his wife, Jodi Stevens, an actress (Broadway\u2019s Jekyll & Hyde) and voice teacher whom he married in 2003; his brothers, David and Phil; and a niece, Heather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Bryce, who received two Daytime Emmy nominations for his turn as Craig Montgomery on the CBS soap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,11487],"class_list":["post-805395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}