Soap opera star Robert Kelker-Kelly has died, according to a Missouri medical examiner’s office. He was 62 years old.
A spokesperson for the Missouri Regional Medical Examiner’s Office, which serves Franklin, Jefferson and St. Charles counties, confirmed in a statement to NBC News that Kelker-Kelly died Saturday.
The medical examiner’s office did not provide a cause of death and said its “normal time frame for certification of death is approximately 12 weeks,” according to the spokesperson. The office has no additional information to share at this time, the spokesperson said.
Kelker-Kelly was best known for playing Bo Brady on “Days of Our Lives” from 1992 to 1995 and Stavros Cassadine on “General Hospital” from 2001 to 2014.
“Days of Our Lives” addressed his death in an Instagram post Monday.
“Rest in peace,” the message read.
Kelker-Kelly made his debut in daytime television when he joined the cast of “Another World” as Sam Fowler in 1987.
He then joined “Days of Our Lives” in 1992, where he starred alongside some of the soap’s most notable stars, including former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” actress Lisa Rinna.
Rinna and Kelker-Kelly played their love interests in the series. The actor and reality TV star described having a tumultuous relationship with Kelker-Kelly behind the scenes in his recently released memoir, “You better believe I’m going to talk about it: a candid New York Times bestselling memoir about Hollywood, aging, and owning it all.
“We hated each other,” Rinna wrote, adding that Kelker-Kelly “made my life hell on the set of ‘Days’.”
Rinna and Kelker-Kelly won a Soap Opera Digest Award in 1995 for Sexiest Soap Opera Couple. The year before, Kelker-Kelly won one of the awards for Best Leading Actor.
Kelker-Kelly was born in Wichita, Kansas, according to IMBD. He married fellow “Days of Our Lives” star Miriam Parrish in 1997 before divorcing in 2013.
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