Anthony Geary, the thoughtful General Hospital actor who as the complex Luke Spencer raped and romanced Genie Francis’ Laura Webber Baldwin on the way to an unprecedented eight Daytime Emmy Awards and...

Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on the daytime soap opera “ General Hospital, ” has died.

His pairing with Genie Francis’ Laura Spencer was credited with saving “General Hospital” from cancellation and igniting a soap opera boom in the 1980s.