RIP Jay Pickett

Veteran Soap Opera Star Jay Pickett Dies on Set of Movie at 60

 

California News Times

By Martin E. Robert

8/1/2021

 

Longtime soap opera actor Jay Pickett died while he was actually working in front of the camera.

Jay passed on Thursday with a new movie set he was working on called “Treasure Valley” in Idaho-so his co-star and co-producer of Flick says, Jim Heffel, Shared tragic news on Facebook … explained that he actually died while they were preparing to shoot the scene. 

 

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“Jay died in the movie Treasure Valley, Idaho, sitting on a horse ready to rope a steer. It’s a true cowboy path,” he wrote. There wasn’t much debate about how he keeled over, but it seems to have been sudden … and the official cause of death has not yet been clarified. 

 

Another star in the movie, Travis Mills, Visited his own FB page and speculated that it looked like some kind of heart attack. He also noted that everyone around him worked hard to keep him alive … and he continues to call it a shocking tragedy. 

 

This is a project that Jay was working on-he wrote, produced, and starred as the main character. It sounds like a good old western … It was scheduled to be released next year.

Jay certainly has film experience over his long career, but he’s definitely more famous for his television productions … or daytime television, we should say-he’s in the 90’s. Started with “Days of Our Lives”, “he played Dr. Chipleykin.

He was only on “Days” for about a year, but then moved on to the more legendary soaps … where he played a long-term role. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, Jay starred in more than 700 episodes of “Port Charles” and played Frank Scanlon in great fanfare. 

 

After that, Jay continued to star in “General Hospital” for several years. At that point, he played a variety of roles, including “Dexter,” “Desperate Housewives,” and “Hotline.” “Saving Grace” … and then “NCIS”, “The Mentalist” and other shows and movies until very recently. 

 

He survived by his wife, Elena, And his child. Jay was only 60 years old.

PICKETT, Jay (Jay Harris Pickett)

Born: 2/10/1961, Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.

Died: 7/30/2021, Idaho, U.S.A.

 

Jay Pickett’s westerns – actor:

A Soldier’s Revenge – 2020 (Kennedy)

Catch the Bullet – 2021 (Britt)

Heart of the Gun – 2021 (John White)

Shooting Star – 2021 (Walt)

The Siege at Rykers Station – 2021 (Twigs)