General Hospital’s Anthony Geary Comes Out of Retirement to Lather Up Anew

Anthony Geary"An Evening with the Stars"The IvarHollywood9/14/03©Jill Johnson/jpistudios.com310-657-9661

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You can take the star outta the soap, but you can’t take the soap outta the star.

Seven years after Anthony Geary retired from General Hospital and acting, he’s back in front of the camera in the latest episode of This Show Sucks: Truth + Consequences, the soap spoof created by photographer Jim Warren that’s as wacky as it is star-studded.

In Geary’s episode, the series’ ninth, Truth + Consequences’ producer flies to Europe in hopes of enticing back to the drama its former leading man, Trent Silver — played, of course, by the eight-time Daytime Emmy winner. “The decision,” the show’s official logline reads, “could be the difference between T+C remaining on the air — or joining the other daytime soap operas that were unceremoniously being booted from the airwaves.”

Since its debut, This Show Sucks has attracted a roster of actors that’s like a Who’s Who of daytime greats, among them Kin Shriner (Scotty, General Hospital), Kim Zimmer (Reva, Guiding Light), Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless) and Ian Buchanan (ex-Duke, General Hospital). Episode No. 9 even includes a cameo by Anders Hove, aka General Hospital supervillain Cesar Faison.

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Though Geary is best known for playing Luke Spencer, General Hospital wasn’t actually his only soap. From 1971-72, he played David Lockhart on Bright Promise. A year later, he passed through The Young and the Restless as rapist George Curtis. His other credits include appearances on everything from Starsky & Hutch to All in the Family.

Check out Geary’s episode of Truth + Consequences above, then revisit his exploits as Luke in the photo gallery below.

Video: YouTube/Jim Warren

GENERAL HOSPITAL, Anthony Geary, Jackie Zeman, (1979), 1963-, © ABC / Courtesy: Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, (1980), 1963- , ph: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Anthony Geary, Genie Francis, (1980), 1963- , ph: Curt Gunther/TV Guide/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Anthony Geary, Elizabeth Taylor, (1993), 1963- , ph: Craig Sjodin/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, 1963-present, Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, in the wedding episode, 11/16-17/81

GENERAL HOSPITAL, Janine Turner, Demi Moore, 1963-present, photo c. 1982

GENERAL HOSPITAL, luke holly (from left): Emma Samms, Anthony Geary, (mid-1980s), 1963-. © ABC / Courtesy Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, robert scorpio luke Tristan Rogers, Anthony Geary, (ca. early 1980s), 1963-. © ABC/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Anthony Geary, Carol Lawrence, (1991), 1963- , ph: Craig Sjodin/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Genie Francis, Jonathan Jackson, Anthony Geary, 1995, 1963- . ph: Craig Sjodin /© ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, from left: Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, (1995), 1963- , ph: Cathy Blaivas/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

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Anthony Geary, Jonathan Jackson "General Hospital" Set The Prospect Studios ABC Studios Los Angeles 03/02/11 ©Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 12271 U.S.Airdate 03/28/11

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Nathan Parsons, Anthony Geary "General Hospital" Set The Prospect Studios ABC Studios 05/22/15 © Sean Smith/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 13340 U.S. Airdate 07/03/15

Jane Elliot, Anthony Geary "General Hospital" Set The Prospect Studios ABC Studios Los Angeles 11/30/10 ©Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 12210 U.S.Airdate 12/27/10

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Jane Elliot, Anthony Geary"General Hospital" SetThe Prospect StudiosABC Studios03/29/17© XJJohnson/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 13799U.S. Airdate 05/04/17

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<p>When first we met Luke, the rapscallion was enlisted by scheming sis Bobbie to help break up her crush Scotty and his future wife Laura. Luke nailed it… but in the worst way possible.</p>

<p>Though Luke became so obsessed with Laura that he forced himself on her at the Campus Disco, she couldn’t stay away from him. Whether he was grabbing her arm became irrelevant.</p>

<p>On the run with Luke, Laura helped him stop the villainous Mikkos Cassadine from freezing Port Charles and the world. Of course, as if to prove that no good deed goes unpunished…</p>

<p>Mikkos’ widow Helena (yes, <em>the</em> Elizabeth Taylor back then) not only messed with Luke’s jacket, she placed a curse on him and Laura that didn’t require [bleeping] but also didn’t bode well for their future.</p>

<p>Despite the Helena-shaped shadow looming over them, in the most-watched wedding in daytime history, Laura made an honest man of Luke. Well, as honest a man as ever he was gonna be!</p>

<p>After budding supermodel Laura vanished off the docks of Port Charles, <em>General Hospital</em> floated the idea of pairing him with reporter Jackie (then Demi Moore) and/or her sister, a spare Laura. “Pass,” said Luke. “Same,” said viewers.</p>

<p>“Widower” Luke ultimately rebounded in a big way with impish con artist Holly Sutton… only to “die” himself in a game-changing avalanche. Dumb, stupid snow.</p>

<p>When Luke thawed out, he discovered that BFF Robert had married Holly. You know, to help the Englishwoman stay in the country and all. It was cool, though, ’cause it turned out that Laura was no more dead than Luke was. Nobody in Port Charles dies — ever!</p>

<p>After Luke and Laura left Port Charles, theoretically to enjoy their overdue happily ever after, Anthony Geary returned to the soap in 1991 as his former character’s lookalike cousin, Bill Eckert (opposite Carol Lawrence as mom Angela).</p>

<p>Upon Bill’s death, <em>General Hospital</em> picked up with Luke’s life, which at that point included not only wife Laura and son Lucky but little Lulu.</p>

<p>Returning to Port Charles was not as relaxing as the Spencers might have hoped (or as peaceful as this photo might suggest). Their marriage was rocked by the revelation that Laura had given birth to Stavros’ son — hi, Nikolas — while being held prisoner by the Cassadines.</p>

<p>Luke had to work hard to establish — and maintain! — a relationship with daughter Lulu (then Julie Marie Berman). The future reporter was nobody’s fool, not even her dad’s.</p>

<p>Luke’s connection with Lucky was unbreakable. Though the elder Spencer sure put that theorem to the test! Running over Lucky’s sorta-son Jake was harder for Luke to come back from than Jake’s return trip from the dead…</p>

<p>Adrift without Laura, Luke gravitated toward such attractive prospects as nouveau Quartermaine Skye Chandler and the one and only Anna Devane.</p>

<p>Luke finally got an actual chip off the ol’ block in con artist Ethan, his “Wait, where did <em>you</em> come from?” son with Holly.</p>

<p>There was actually nothing whatsoever about the “courtship” of Luke and rich bitch Tracy Quartermaine that was sleepy. But in one another, they seemed to find a kind of peace.</p>

<p>Repressed memories of his parents’ deaths turned Luke into someone we hardly recognized. And that was before folks caught on and decided it was best that he enter the asylum’s costume contest in Hannibal Lecter drag.</p>

<p>In Geary’s final <em>General Hospital</em> appearance, he reunited Luke with Tracy, in so doing, allowing us to believe that they lived wackily ever after. Spoiler alert: They did not.</p>

<p>In the winter of 2022, Tracy returned to Port Charles to reveal that Luke had been killed in a cable car accident in Austria. More shocked than they look here, those who knew and loved him gathered to pay their respects. But was the deceased <em>really</em> a goner?</p>

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