Wayne Northrop, an actor identified for his work on the cleaning soap operas “Days of Our Lives,” “Dynasty” and “Port Charles,” has died. He was 77.

Northrop died Friday on the Movement Image and Tv Fund’s retirement house in Woodland Hills, Calif., his publicist instructed Selection.

“Wayne was identified with early onset Alzheimer’s six years in the past. He took his final breath within the arms of his household,” a household assertion from Northrop’s spouse, actor Lynn Herring Northrop, reads. “We want to thank essentially the most caring and wonderful place, The Movement Image and Tv House for taking such nice care of him. Wayne touched so many individuals together with his humorousness and wit. A husband for 43 years, the very best dad ever to his two boys, Hank and Grady, and a rancher who cherished his cows and was a good friend to many.”

Northrop portrayed the robust, but kind-hearted Detective Roman Brady on “Days of Our Lives” from 1981 to 1984 and returned for a stint from 1991 to 1994. The character was identified for his romance and marriage to Deidre Corridor’s Dr. Marlena Evans. In 2005, Northrop rejoined the solid of the NBC cleaning soap opera as Dr. Alex North, a medical faculty classmate of Dr. Marlena Evans.

The actor additionally performed Rex Stanton on ABC’s “Port Charles” from 1997 to 1998 and chauffer Michael Culhane within the first and seventh seasons of “Dynasty.”

Northrop was born on April 12, 1947, to Robert and Donna Jean Northrop, and raised in a small city of Sumner, Wash. He graduated with a BA in communications from the College of Washington and later enrolled in performing lessons at Seattle Group School.

In 1975, he joined the newly shaped Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre headed by Ralph Waite. He ultimately booked his first tv position in an episode of “Police Story” and guested on sequence similar to “Chilly Case,” “The Haunting of Lisa” and “The Deidre Corridor Story.” Northrop additionally labored on the NBC particular “You Are the Jury: The State of Arizona v. Dr. Evan Blake” (1986) and the CBS TV film “Guts and Glory: The Invoice Johnson Story” (1985).

Northrop is survived by his spouse Lynn (married Could 9, 1981), sons Hank (Laura) and Grady, and stepmother Janet Northrop.