'Days of Our Lives' and 'Knots Landing' Star Kevin Dobson Dead at Age 77

By Amanda Thomason

Published September 8, 2020 at 10:04am

Kevin Dobson, an actor on television and the stage, died Sunday in a Stockton, California, hospital. He was 77.

His agent, Arthur Toretzk, told The Hollywood Reporter that Dobson had been suffering from an autoimmune deficiency. Dobson’s IMDb bio lists the cause of death as “heart attack.”

Born March 18, 1943, in New York City, Dobson grew up in the housing projects in Jackson Heights, one of seven kids.

https://www.facebook.com/EntertainmentTonight/posts/1015894 1174771180

He had a number of different jobs during his life, including waiter and bartender, train conductor for the Long Island Railroad, military police officer in the Army and — of course — actor.

Being Irish, athletic and connected with the law (in addition to his time as an MP, his grandfather was a cop in New York), perhaps it’s no surprise that he often gravitated toward shows about crime.

In 1968, Dobson was in the theatrical production “The Impossible Years,” and that year he also married his wife, Susan.

Click for Full Text!