{"id":872383,"date":"2026-10-06T04:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872383\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:28:07","slug":"robert-kelker-kelly-dead-days-of-our-lives-general-hospital-star-was-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872383\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kelker-Kelly Dead: Days of Our Lives, General Hospital Star Was 62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRobert Kelker-Kelly, a soap opera star known for his roles on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/days-lives\/\" id=\"auto-tag_days-lives_1\" data-tag=\"days-lives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Days of Our Lives<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/general-hospital\/\" id=\"auto-tag_general-hospital_1\" data-tag=\"general-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">General Hospital<\/a> and Another World, died Saturday. He was 62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe St. Peters Police Department <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/05\/robert-kelker-kelly-died-after-chest-pains\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/05\/robert-kelker-kelly-died-after-chest-pains\/\" target=\"_blank\">told TMZ<\/a> that officers responded to Kelker-Kelly\u2019s home in Missouri to tend to an unconscious man who was not breathing after complaining of chest pain. At the scene, authorities reportedly attempted life-saving measures, but they were unsuccessful. The cause of death wasn\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBorn on April 18, 1964, in Wichita, Kansas, Kelker-Kelly made his acting debut in 1987 playing Sam Fowler in Another World. After leaving the soap opera in 1990, he returned in 1996 as Dr. Shane Roberts, also known as Bobby Reno. Overall, he appeared on more than 400 episodes of Another World.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKelker-Kelly\u2019s soap opera career continued on Days of Our Lives, when he took on the part of Bo Brady, a bad boy turned police hero, from 1992-95. He succeeded Peter Reckell, who originated the role in 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe also played aristocratic villain Stavros Cassadine on Port Charles and General Hospital from 1997-2003. He reprised the character on General Hospital from 2013-14, his final onscreen role, per IMDb.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 1995, Kelker-Kelly shared the Hottest Soap Couple award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards with Lisa Rinna, who played Billie Reed on Days. Decades later, in her 2026 memoir, Rinna opened up about her relationship with Kelker-Kelly, accusing him of being verbally abusive and manipulative toward her during their time working together, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/people.com\/days-of-our-lives-actor-robert-kelker-kelly-dead-62-12159875\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/days-of-our-lives-actor-robert-kelker-kelly-dead-62-12159875\" target=\"_blank\">People <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKelker-Kelly\u2019s other credits included Jack\u2019s Place, Touched by an Angel, Maybe This Time and Rescue 77. He also won outstanding lead actor at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1994 for his role on Days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe was also a professional pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKelker-Kelly was previously married to Linda Rattner until they divorced in 1992. He later married Miriam Parrish in 1997, but they divorced in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Kelker-Kelly, a soap opera star known for his roles on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[592,88,21033,10756],"class_list":["post-872383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-days-of-our-lives","tag-entertainment","tag-general-hospital","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}