Michael Levin, known for portraying the journalist Jack Fenelli on all 13 seasons of the ABC soap Ryan’s Hope, has died. He was age 90. Levin’s son, Jason, told The Hollywood Reporter that his father died on January 6 of natural causes at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York. No further details were provided.
Michael Levin’s ‘Ryan’s Hope’ Obituary
Michael Levin passed away on January 6. The soap world has lost a real firecracker of an actor. Michael Levin, who was principled hothead Jack Fenelli during Ryan’s Hope‘s entire run on ABC, died on January 6 of natural causes, his son tells our sister site, The Hollywood Reporter.
The Minneapolis native has said that Michael wound up being cast as the Italian-American reporter on the much-missed daytime drama because of a commercial that he’d done, in which he played an Italian spokesman for Alitalia Airlines.
Once he had nabbed the part, Levin, nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actor Daytime Emmy three times in a row, quickly struck super couple gold when he was paired with future Orange Is the New Black star Kate Mulgrew as feisty Mary Ryan.