He starred alongside Laurence Olivier and Liz Taylor in “All the President’s Men,” “Reds,” and “The Facts of Life” on Broadway.

All the President’s Men, Reds, Stir Crazy, Another World, Santa Barbara, and All My Children actor Nicolas Coster passed away. Aged 89.

Coster passed away on Monday in a Florida hospital, according to a Facebook post from his daughter Dinneen Coster.

She wrote, “Please remember him as a brilliant artist. His talent was in acting! I appreciate having him as a parent. He has motivated me.

On The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo and The Facts of Life, both 1980s NBC sitcoms, Coster portrayed the chief of detectives J.E. Carson and Blair Warner’s billionaire father, respectively.

In 1961, he made his Broadway debut in Becket as Henry II. He appeared in The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor twenty years later.

Coster portrayed Markham, a Watergate defendant’s attorney, in the 1976 film All the President’s Men. He portrayed a colonel in MacArthur (1977) by Joseph Sargent, the dentist Paul Trullinger in Reds (1981) by Warren Beatty, and the warden in Stir Crazy (1980) by Sidney Poitier.

From 1984 until 1988, Coster portrayed the violent Lionel Lockridge, husband to Louise Sorel’s Augusta Lockridge, on NBC’s Santa Barbara. He left the show in 1988 because he objected to a plot line in which his character faked his death to obtain insurance money. He came back in 1990 and stayed until the show’s finale in 1993.

In addition, Coster portrayed Robert Delaney, the former CEO of Delaney Brands who later became an architect, on NBC’s Somerset/Another World from 1970 to 1979, 1980, and 1989. He also portrayed the psychotic kidnapper Steve Andrews on ABC’s All My Children from 1988 to 1989. His description of Andrews as “Susan Lucci’s terrorist lover.”

For his portrayal of Mayor Jack Madison in the Amazon digital serial opera The Bay, he was awarded a Daytime Emmy in 2017.

Young Doctor Malone, The Secret Storm, As the World Turns, and its primetime follow-up, Our Private World, are just a few of his serialized works.

On their list of the 50 Greatest Soap Actors from 2010, We Love Soaps placed Coster at number 44. One panelist claimed that Nicolas Coster was “smart, charming, and very funny” and that he was the subject of most soap operas. He is consistently right on as the con artist, bad boy, or grifter who is so cool that ice wouldn’t melt in his tongue, the source continued.

Nicolas Dwynn Coster was born in London. While his mother created storefront windows, his father analyzed plays and films. Little Foxes and Taylor, students at Byron House, went to their old London playground.

At age 16, Coster returned to the UK after attending Canoga Park High School in Los Angeles and Canada. In 1951, he received his acting school diploma.

He arrived in New York two years later to train with Lee Strasberg in preparation for his roles at the Guthrie Theater, where he was a founding member, and the Arena Stage in Washington.

Coster spoke about supporting Olivier in Becket in 2006. At 54, Larry claimed to still be active. “One night, he severely twisted his knee during the first act. “Not tonight, Nicolas,” murmured Olivier as he stumbled from the stage.

In 1964, Coster collaborated with Jada Rowland on The Secret Storm. According to him, “We played the first professor and student to get naughty together” on daytime TV. The U.S. Senate painted us as immoral on daytime television prior to our affair and marriage.

Alongside Michele Lee, Sada Thompson, and Tom Courtenay, he appeared in the films Seesaw, Twigs, and Otherwise Engaged.

His filmography included My Blood Runs Cold by William Conrad from 1965, The Sporting Club, The Big Fix by Larry Peerce, The Electric Horseman, Little Darlings by Sydney Pollack, and Betsy’s Wedding by Alan Alda from 1990.

Naked City, The Green Hornet, Charlie’s Angels, One Day at a Time, L.A. Law, Who’s the Boss?, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Cold Case were among the other films in which Coster appeared.

Following a nearly deadly vehicle accident in November 1987 that left him in a coma and momentarily forgetful, he began teaching acting at the University of Georgia.

Diver Coster established the Challenges Foundation in 1998 to provide underprivileged children with access to the sea. For returning American veterans, he created a sailing program.

His autobiography, Another Whole Afternoon, was released in March 2021.

Daughters Candice Jr. and Dinneen were produced by his first marriage to dancer-actress Candace Hilligoss. From 1960 to 1981, he was married to the Carnival of Souls actress.

He lost his son Ian in 2016.