General Hospital and Bold & Beautiful Vet Dead at 73

General Hospital has been struck by another loss: Veteran actor Rif Hutton, who played two roles on the ABC soap, passed away at age 73 on April 18 after a year-long battle with Glioblastoma.

Hutton first appeared on General Hospital in 1995, when he took over the role of Mary Mae Ward’s son David from Ron Canada. He returned to the daytime drama more than a quarter of century later as Lenny Caulfield, the Nixon Falls denizen who along with wife Phyllis befriended an amnesiac Sonny.

But you are just as likely to remember the prolific actor from his zillions of primetime parts. Since the 1980s, he had appeared on everything from Family Matters to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Doogie Howser, M.D., to ER.

And if you think his two roles on General Hospital are something, he popped up on The Bold and the Beautiful as three different minor characters in the ’80s and ’90s: Drs. Sloan and Harrison and Stan Beckworth.

Hutton also did nearly 100 episodes of Tribes, the short-lived syndicated soap that marked the first daytime drama for Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, Young & Restless).

“A remarkable human being has left this earthly plane,” friend and fellow voiceover artist Steve Apostolina shared via Facebook. “To say that Rif Hutton was one of a kind is a gross understatement…

“People knew when they hired him for a voice job that he was going to be the most prepared — he always was. He was also always first to show up on a gig — I had the great pleasure of beating him a few times and scooping a treasured chair, but those were few and far between.”