Randall England, ‘General Hospital’ Actor, Dies at 75

Randall England, who portrayed Jack Slater, a villain fond of red cowboy boots, for eight months in the mid-1980s on the ABC soap General Hospital, has died. He was 75.

England died Sept. 25 after a battle with esophageal cancer, his family announced. He lived in Beverly Hills for more than 40 years, and the town “won’t be the same without him cruising around in his vintage BMW, sporting his dark Ray-Ban sunglasses,” they noted.

From November 1984 through June 1985, England played Slater, a killer and jewel thief who went toe-to-toe with Tristan Rogers’ Robert Scorpio before he’s shot to death. (It turns out he was a fan of cowboy boots in real life.)

One of three kids, Randy Alan England was born in Oklahoma City on Sept. 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 on gigs that took him to London, Zurich, Milan and Los Angeles, he studied acting in the late 1970s and early ’80s with Kim Stanley and Stella Adler. An audition brought him to L.A., and in 1981 he showed up as a model in the Michael Crichton thriller Looker, starring Albert Finney.

England also appeared on episodes of Dallas, The Young and the Restless and Baywatch and in the 2015 music video for Maroon 5’s “Sugar.”

For the stage, he played President Clinton in Hillary & Monica in 2003 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and acted in productions of All My Sons, The Glass Menagerie and Three Sisters.

He was working on documentary that honored Stanley’s life and career and 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 ex-wife Jennifer.

Donations in his memory can be made to the Esophageal Cancer Action Network.