1. Anthony Geary was born on May 29,1947 and is a retired American actor.
18 Facts About Anthony Geary
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Anthony Geary originated the role of Luke in 1978, and went on to earn a record eight Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series prior to his retirement.
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Anthony Geary was born May 29,1947, in Coalville, Utah, a son of a contractor father and homemaker mother.
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Anthony Geary played rapist George Curtis on The Young and the Restless from August to November 1973.
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In 1978, Anthony Geary was hired for a 13-week story arc to play Luke Spencer on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
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Anthony Geary holds the distinction of winning a record eight Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Anthony Geary was first nominated in 1980, and had his first win in 1982.
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Anthony Geary was nominated again in 1983, before leaving the show in 1984.
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In 1991, Anthony Geary returned to General Hospital as Luke's cousin and look-alike Bill Eckert; Anthony Geary expressed a desire to play a different character than Luke.
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However, due to poor feedback from the viewing public, Bill Eckert was killed off, and Anthony Geary resumed the role of Luke in 1993, when Genie Francis returned to General Hospital.
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Anthony Geary was nominated in 1997 and 1998 for Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actor, and had his second win in 1999, and his third in 2000.
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Anthony Geary received another nomination in 2003, and had his fourth win in 2004.
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Anthony Geary received another Emmy nomination in 2007, and in 2008, he again set a record for most lead actor wins with his sixth Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor.
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Anthony Geary set a record in 2012 with his seventh Daytime Emmy win and again in 2015 for his eighth win for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series after 16 nominations for the same role of General Hospital's Luke Spencer.
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Anthony Geary publicly announced on Friday, May 8,2015, that he would be leaving his role on General Hospital.
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Anthony Geary finished taping his last scenes on the General Hospital set on June 23,2015.
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Anthony Geary later made a cameo appearance on a May 2017 episode to facilitate the retirement of co-star Jane Elliot, who played Luke's former on-screen wife Tracy Quartermaine.
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Anthony Geary appeared in 1987's Disorderlies, with rappers the Fat Boys, and has appeared in more than 50 stage plays, including an award-winning one-man show titled Human Scratchings in 1996.