Beau Kazer, who portrayed Brock Reynolds on the long-running CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, has died. He was 63.
Kazer is believed to have died on Dec. 30 in his sleep in Thousand Oaks, Calif., said his wife, photographer Sharon Alkus. She said he had been staying in Thousand Oaks to finish writing a book he called Adventures in Honkerville.
“Sadly, he was almost done,” she said. “I will type up the remainder of the chapters and dedicate it: ‘To Beau Kazer, a truly loving human being, one I hope to meet again someday.’”
The actor had health issues for two years, Alkus said, adding Wednesday that no cause of death had been determined.
Kazer played the lawyer son of Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) starting in 1974. He left the show in the early 1980s but returned to Genoa City on several occasions through 2013. He came back twice for his mother’s funeral (however, it was his mother’s look-alike that had died the first time).
The Toronto native also played Dr. Bunny Willis on the ABC soap General Hospital and appeared in guest-star gigs on such primetime shows as Hart to Hart, B.J. and the Bear and Barnaby Jones.
In Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), Kazer is seen playing Brock on a television set that is kicked over by Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle. For that, he received a credit as “Soap Opera Man.”
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