‘Risky Business’, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ star, Nicholas Pryor dies at 89

Nicholas Pryor is no more.

The Hollywood star, who portrayed the role of father for both Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. in Risky Business and Less Than Zero passed away on Oct. 7 battling cancer in Wilmington, N.C.

Pryor died at 89.

“He was one of the nicest people I have ever met and he will be missed,” his agent, Susan Tolar Walters, said in a statement, as per Variety.

The actor, who had an extensive career in Hollywood for almost 70 years, also played dad to Kathleen Robertson’s character in Beverly Hills, 90210 for 26 episodes from 1994-1997.

Pryor also appeared on the General Hospital spinoff Port Charles from 1997-2002, playing ex-spy Victor Collins.

Runs on The Secret Storm, The Edge of Night, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, All My Children and Another World made up his career in daytime soap operas.

Pryor also appeared in other on-screen projects including Halloween Kills, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, The Outsider, Doctor Sleep, A Summer’s Day, Buster’s Mal Heart, Cosmic Kiosk, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Constantine, Nashville and Hart of Dixie.