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Nicholas Pryor, ‘Risky Business’ and ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Actor, Dies at 89


Nicholas Pryor, the stage and screen actor known for 'Risky Business' and 'Beverly Hills 90210,' has died at the age of 89.

Nicholas Pryor, who played a father to both Tom Cruise and to Robert Downey Jr. in “ Risky Business ” and “Less Than Zero,” died Oct. 7 of cancer in Wilmington, N.C. His career on daytime soap operas also included stints in “The Secret Storm,” “The Edge of Night,” “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,” “All My Children” and “Another World.” Some of Pryor’s other on-screen credits include “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.”

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