Randall England, who played bad guy Jack Slater with a penchant for red cowboy boots, for eight months in the mid-1980s on the ABC series. General Hospitaldied. He was 75 years old.
England died on September 25 from esophageal cancer, his family announced. He lived in Beverly Hills for more than 40 years, and the city “wouldn’t be the same without him driving around in his vintage BMW, sporting his dark Ray-Ban sunglasses,” they noted.
From November 1984 to June 1985, England played Slater, a killer and jewel thief who confronted Tristan Rogers’ Robert Scorpio before being shot dead. (Turns out he was a fan of cowboy boots in real life.)
One of three children, Randy Alan England was born in Oklahoma City on September 22, 1951. He graduated from Memorial High School and the University of Oklahoma, where he was a pitcher for the Sooners.
After working as a model in gigs that took him to London, Zurich, Milan and Los Angeles, he studied acting in the late 70s and early 80s with Kim Stanley and Stella Adler. An audition took him to Los Angeles and in 1981 he appeared as a model in Michael Crichton’s thriller. Lookerwith Albert Finney.
England also appeared in episodes of Dallas, The Young and the Restless And Baywatch and in the 2015 music video for Maroon 5’s “Sugar.”
On stage, he played President Clinton in Hillary and Monica in 2003 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has performed in productions of All my sons, The Glass Menagerie And Three sisters.
He was working on a documentary honoring Stanley’s life and career as well as the time of his death.
Survivors include his daughter, Micaela, and son-in-law, Sam; his grandchildren, Katherine and Julian; his mother, Catherine; sister Linda; nieces and nephews Amanda, Wesley and Alex; and his ex-wife Jennifer.
Donations in his memory can be made to the Esophageal Cancer Action Network.
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