Scott Bryce, who received two Daytime Emmy nominations for his turn as Craig Montgomery on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and portrayed Leslie Bibb’s dad on The WB series Popular, has died. He was 68.
Bryce died Sunday in New Haven, Connecticut, after a battle with esophageal and stomach cancer, his son, Jackson Bryce, told The New York Times. He had been diagnosed with cancer in October 2024 and opened up about his health issues with Alan Locher on an episode of The Locher Room last year.
Bryce also showed up on six episodes from 1990-92 as Will Forrest, the husband of Faith Ford’s Corky Sherwood, on CBS’ Murphy Brown.
The New York native originated the role of the antihero Craig on As the World Turns in January 1982 and stuck around through May 1987 for the first of his five stretches on the show (also 1988-89, 1990, 1993-94 and 2007-08, when he was fired).
“The plots on the show are so much darker than they used to be — dead babies, pornography, methamphetamines — and maybe I didn’t fit into that vision,” he said shortly after he was let go. “It’s not the ATWT I remember from those many years ago.”
