Known for playing Dr. Roger Coleridge in the ABC soap series “Ryan’s Hope,” Ron Hale passed away. At eighty-eight years old.
Hale’s family reported his passing on August 27, 2018. Hale was a resident of St. George, SC. Nobody revealed the cause of death.
Between 1975 and 1989, Hale appeared in over 900 episodes of “Ryan’s Hope” as Roger Coleridge. His portrayal of the fictional doctor earned him nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards in 1979 and 1980.
Hale later played Mike Corbin on “General Hospital” from 1995 to 2010 and on the daytime soap opera “Port Charles,” a spinoff series, from 1997 to 2000. He appeared as a guest on several TV shows, including Easy, Matlock, MacGyver, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, N.Y.P.D., and Search for Tomorrow.
In terms of movies, Hale played Watergate thief Frank Sturgis in the Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford biographical political thriller “All the President’s Men” from 1976. “Me, Natalie” (1969), “Trial by Jury” (1994), “The Lord Protector” (1996), “Sunstorm” (2001), and “The Ghost and the Whale” (2017) are some of his other film credits.
Ronald Hale Thigpen was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on January 2, 1946, to Elinor Jane Doerr Thigpen and James Ray Thigpen, Sr. Jim and Kay Thigpen, his brother and sister-in-law, founded Columbia’s Trustus Theatre, where he performed in productions while attending Furman University.
Hale leaves behind his nieces and nephews, Marc Brown (Betsy), Erin Wilson (Laurens), Max Brabham, and Lori Brown (Janet Brabham).
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