Anthony Geary was born on the 29th May 1947, in Coalville, Utah USA, and is an actor probably best known for playing the character of Luke Spencer in the TV soap opera “General Hospital” from 1978 to 1984, and from 1993 to the 2015. Tony is the winner of numerous Soap Awards as well as Daytime Emmy Awards, all for his role landed in the aforementioned soapie. He has been active in the entertainment industry since 1970.
How rich is the actor? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of Tony Geary’s net worth is as much as $9 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016. Acting in films and on television is the main source of Geary’s wealth.
Tony Geary Net Worth $9 Million
To begin with, Tony was raised alongside two sisters by their parents Dana and Russell Dean Geary. He graduated from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Concerning his professional career, Geary debuted landing episodic roles in the television series “Room 222” (1970) and “All in the Family” (1971). Afterwards, he appeared in the main cast of the feature film “Jonny Got His Gun” (1971) by Dalton Trumbo, then the same year, the actor was invited to join the cast of the soap opera “Bright Promise” (1971 – 1972). Later, Geary portrayed various characters in single episodes of several series including “The Partridge Family”, “The Young and the Restless” (1973), “Doc Elliot” (1974), “The Streets of San Francisco” (1975), “Barnaby Jones” (1976), “Most Wanted” (1977) and “The Six Million Dollar Man” (1978), which laid the basis for his net worth.
Meanwhile, he starred in several feature films, including “Blood Sabbath” (1972), “Sorority Kill” (1974) and “The Return of Captain Nemo” (1978). Tony Geary experienced his breakthrough starring in the soap opera “General Hospital” created by Frank and Doris Hursley, and as the outstanding lead actor he was nominated for various awards 25 times, 13 of them won,among others he is the winner of Soapy Awards, Soap Opera Digest Awards as well as the Daytime Emmy Awards. The series was cancelled in 1984, but renewed in 1993, steadily boosting Tony’s net worth.
From 1983, Geary starred mostly in feature films. He portrayed Octavius Caesar in the film “Antony and Cleopatra” (1983), Martin Cheevers in the film “Kicks” (1985), Winslow Lowry in the comedy film “Disorderlies” (1987), Tony in the romantic comedy film “You Can’t Hurry Love” (1988), Stephen Pugliotti in the drama film “Do You Know the Muffin Man?” (1989) among others. Recently, Tony created minor roles in the films “Fish Tank” (2009) and “Alice and the Monster” (2013). Overall, all the above mentioned roles have increased the total size of Tony Geary net worth as well as making him famous, as well as his TV role.
It should be noted, that the actor throughout his career has performed in more than 50 plays on the theatre stage.
Finally, in the personal life of the actor, he has never been married nor has children. Rumours have been flying that Tony is gay, which the actor has not denied or confirmed.
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