Jerry Ver Dorn, the soap opera actor who portrayed attorney Ross Marler on CBS’ Guiding Light for 26 years and then patriarch Clint Buchanan on ABC’s One Life to Live for another eight, has died. He was 72.
Ver Dorn died Sunday of cancer at his home in Sparta, New Jersey, his family announced.
On Broadway in 1979, Ver Dorn was playing an investigator in Eric Bentley’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? while also serving as George Grizzard’s understudy in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman (and starring in matinees) when he was spotted by Guiding Light casting agents.