Sad news: Actor Nicholas Pryor has died at the age of 89. The television star was in front of the camera for over 60 years and appeared in more than 180 films and series. Including world-famous productions such as “Beverly Hills, 90210”, “Our Little Farm” and “The Denver Clan”.
His wife, Christine Belford, 75, told The Hollywood Reporter that Pryor died on Monday at his home in Wilmington, North Carolina. The cause of death was cancer.
Nicholas Pryor als Charles Warren 1978 in „Damien – Omen II“
Foto: picture alliance / 20th Century Fox/AF Archive/Mary
His widow also shared that her husband was extremely grateful “for being an actor for almost 70 years.”
Belford was the actor’s fourth wife and the two worked together on the series “Beverly Hills, 90210.” In the world-famous series from 1994 to 1997, Pryor played the recurring supporting role of A. Milton Arnold, the chancellor of California University, and thus became known to a wide audience.
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Pryor began his career on Broadway in his mid-twenties, appearing in four plays from 1957 to 1959 after graduating from college. Later he was mainly involved in television productions.
But the busy actor was also seen again and again in the cinema and worked with the biggest Hollywood stars throughout his long career. In 1983, for example, he played the father of a global star Tom Cruise (62) in the film “Loose Business”. In 1987 he played the father of Robert Downey Jr (59) in the drama “Below Zero”. Five years later he played the lawyer of Jack Nicholson (87) in “Jimmy Hoffa”.
Tom Cruise, Janet Carroll and Nicholas Pryor in “Loose Business”
Photo: Warner Bros.
His last engagement was in the US horror film “Halloween Kills” in 2021.
Nicholas Pryor is survived by his wife Christine Belford, his daughter Stacey, from a previous marriage, and two grandchildren.
