VETERAN soap actor Chris Robinson has died aged 86 at his home in Arizona.

He is best remembered as Dr Rick Webber in General Hospital and and Jack Hamilton in The Bold and the Beautiful .

Fellow actor and co-star MJ Allen wrote: "He peacefully passed in his sleep at his ranch near Sedona, Arizona .

"He had been in heart failure for some time and is his official cause of death."

Robinson was born in West Palm Beach on November 5, 1938.

His long career began in 1957 with an uncredited role in the crime drama The Midnight Story.

Following three other low-budget films, he broke into TV in 1960 with episodes of the western Colt 45 and the drama anthology Zane Grey Theatre .

Guest appearances flooded in for him until he was eventually cast in the war drama 12 O'Clock High.

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