{"id":22579,"date":"2026-10-08T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=22579"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:05:07","slug":"days-of-our-lives-and-general-hospital-actor-dies-at-62-%f0%9f%92%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=22579","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Days of Our Lives\u2019 and \u2018General Hospital\u2019 Actor Dies at 62 \ud83d\udc94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The soap opera world is mourning the loss of <strong>Robert Kelker-Kelly<\/strong>, the actor best known for playing <strong>Bo Brady on<\/strong> <em><strong>Days of Our Lives<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelker-Kelly died at the age of <strong>62<\/strong> after police were called to his Missouri home following a report of chest pain. Officers found him unconscious and not breathing and attempted to save him, but sadly, he could not be revived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His cause of death has not yet been publicly announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Wichita, Kansas, Kelker-Kelly began his acting career in 1987 and went on to appear in <strong>more than 400 episodes<\/strong> across various television productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1992, he took over the iconic role of Bo Brady on <em>Days of Our Lives<\/em>. Replacing Peter Reckell was no easy task, but Kelker-Kelly successfully made the character his own and won over viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He later joined <em>Port Charles<\/em> and <em>General Hospital<\/em>, where he portrayed the villainous <strong>Stavros Cassadine<\/strong>. He returned to <em>General Hospital<\/em> in 2013, with his final onscreen appearance coming the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His talent was recognized with an <strong>Outstanding Lead Actor award at the 1994 Soap Opera Digest Awards<\/strong>, and he was also named part of the magazine\u2019s Hottest Soap Couple with Lisa Rinna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Away from acting, Kelker-Kelly was also a <strong>professional pilot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He leaves behind a career that made him a familiar and memorable face to generations of soap opera fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rest in peace, Robert Kelker-Kelly. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83d\udc94<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soap opera world is mourning the loss of Robert Kelker-Kelly, the actor best known for playing Bo Brady on Days of Our Lives. Kelker-Kelly died at the age of 62 after police were called to his Missouri home following a report of chest pain. Officers found him unconscious and not breathing and attempted to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22581,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions\/22581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}