Doug Sheehan, a television actor whose career included yearslong stints in the’ 80s on the daytime drama” General Hospital” and prime-time soap” Knots Landing”, has died.
Sheehan died happily June 29 at his house in Big Horn, Wyoming, with family Cate Abert at his side, according to an article posted by , Kane Funeral Home.  , A cause of death was never revealed. He was 75.
Sheehan, a native of Southern California, began his acting career in the late 1970s with small roles in the first ABC and CBS Emmy-winning line” Charlie’s Angels.” Finally, in 1979, Sheehan found his foundation when he debuted as personal policeman Joe Kelly on ABC’s” General Hospital.
Over the course of his” General Hospital “tenure, from 1979 to 1982, Sheehan starred in more than 200 shows, bringing Joe Kelly’s tilt from policeman to attorney and his various loving relationships to the camera.
Sheehan’s soap job remained unbroken until he received a year-long responsibility from CBS ‘” Knots Landing” soon after his” General Hospital “days.” After Joe Kelly on” GH,” Sheehan portrayed blogger Ben Gibson, the next partner to Joan Van Ark’s Valene Ewing, for more than 100 episodes of” Tangles.”
The artist returned to ABC to co-lead its home show” Day by Day,” which aired from 1988 to 1989. The set also starred Linda Kelsey, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Thora Birch.
After years of included TV commitments, Sheehan evidently took a step up from key roles and rather appeared as supporting or minor characters in series, including” MacGyver,”” Dear John “and” Columbo “in the early ‘ 90s.
He reunited once again with ABC in 1997 for its collection version of Amy Heckerling’s” Clueless, “replacing Michael Lerner as Mel Horowitz. The next season of the show, which switched from ABC to UPN, was canceled in 1999.
Sheehan’s TV funds even include” Passions,”” Sabrina the Teenage Wtich “and” What I Like About You.”
Beyond his vocation, Sheehan was likewise a shirt enthusiast.
When I first saw polo at” Great Gatsby Day,” a charity event they held at Will Rogers Park a few years ago,” Sheehan told The Times in 1987,” I was so obsessed with the vintage Rolls and English boots that I went out and signed up for polo lessons the following day.
Sheehan’s family is also in his possession. A funeral services is pending, according to Kane Funeral Home.
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