Chris Robinson, the actor who played the role of Dr. Rick Weber in the “General Hospital”, has died, and America also presented a classic turn of the phrase in a commercial cough drink, due to heart failure. It was 86.
Robinson died in his sleep after midnight on Monday at home in Sedona, Arizona, according to director MJ Allen, who published the news on Facebook.
“Jacoy (Chris’s wife) called me a short time ago and informed me that my dear friend and collaborator, Chris Robinson, had died,” the director, whose full name was Michael Jason Allen, wrote on Monday afternoon. “We knew this is coming, but it always absorbs.”
Although Robinson had 100 television credits and movies, according to IMDB, his most famous role may be one of the people who do not realize that they refer to: He was the actor in Fix Formula 44 Coughing Coughing Commercial Advertisement Who first talked about the words, “I am not a doctor, but I am playing one on TV.” This phrase has been pronounced since 1984 again two years later in a second advertisement from Vicks Formula 44, which includes Peter Bergman, the actor “The Young and The Restless”, which was played at that time, Dr. Cliff Warner, on “All My Optly”.
The rest was the history of pop culture.
Robinson was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 5, 1938, in more than 1,000 “General Hospital” episodes between 1978 and 1986, then returned to about 20 episodes in 2002 and the other in April 2013. The world “in 1988 to 1989.
He was regular in the pages of soap opera digestion and behaved with John Stamus, Rick Springfield and Richard Dean Anderson when their career began.
His cross TV confessions began in the 1960s, which included “The Donna Reed Show”, “Gunsmoke”, “Wagon Train”, “Perry Mason” and “Hogan’s Heroes”, to name a few.
Robinson starred with films alongside Mickey Rooney, Charlton Histon, Dick Clark, Bros Dern, Ted Cassidy, iPhone de Carlo, directing movies and television including the “Barretta”, Canon “and” Barnabi Jones “episodes. He wrote, he starred in the movie “The Great Balloon Race” with Frank Jefford, Filis Delis, Capsi Caloui and Berts Parks.
Robinson appeared in three films directed by Allen: “Only for a week”, “hardly dreams” and “Yancy McCord: The killer that Arizona forgot”.
In 1985, the actor – then lives in Glings, California – He acknowledged that he is guilty of federal tax evasion charges He could face two years in prison to provide false tax revenues at $ 490,000 of income from 1980 to 1981. To avoid the sentence This would have forced him to leave the “General Hospital” by serving his time at nights and weekends to stay available for registration during the day. He was also ordered to pay all taxes and benefits.
In recent years, Robinson has enjoyed a time in his farm with his 14 -year -old artist, Jackie Chinn Robinson.
Allen wrote on Facebook: “We spent some holidays together, staying on his farm with a buffet from the creek, and he and Jaki came to my home to always discuss projects.” “Good times … rip, good friend and legend. Respect Jackie and the family.”
Ronda Robinson, one of the former wives of the actor, to publish An antique picture of the TV book in the eighties of the last century on Monday shows Chris Robinson and their young children, “it seems that” a long time. When we got married, I was sure that he would continue forever, but unfortunately he did not. But we created the best children.
Robinson survived his wife, Jackie, as well as the sons of Shin, Cope, Christian, Taylor, Christopher, Christopher Lance, Rob Walker from his many previous marriages. He had five grandchildren.
