TMZ reported Wednesday night. No cause of death has been disclosed at this time.Douglas starred as the father of mainstay characters Jack, Ashley and Tracey Abbott in nearly 900 episodes of the CBS soap starting in 1981 until his character was killed off in 2016.
Born Gerald Rubenstein on Nov. 12, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the son of Eastern European immigrants. He enrolled in Brandeis University at 18 with hopes of earning a law degree in economics.
However, eight months into law school, he gave up the books and started auditioning, according to his official IMBD bio.Armed with leading man looks, he quickly scored his first breaks with TV guest roles on popular 1960s shows such as “The Untouchables” and “The Donna Reed.
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