Robert Kelker-Kelly died from what was publicly answered Thursday: arteriosclerotic heart disease. The Office of the Regional Medical Examiner in St. Charles, Missouri said the 62-year-old actor died at his home in Missouri earlier this month, and his manner of death was ruled natural.
Chest pains in the days before he died made the later finding more than a routine filing. Robert was 62, and the cause was identified after a sudden death that had already drawn attention because of those symptoms.
Days of Our Lives and Another World
1987 marked the start of Robert Kelker-Kelly's soap run on Another World, where he played Sam Fowler. He joined Days of Our Lives in 1992 as Bo Brady, taking over the role from Peter Reckell and holding it for three years before Reckell returned in 1995.
That sequence made him one of the more visible recasts in daytime television. He later appeared on General Hospital as Stavros Cassadine, and the obituary-style framing around his death now sits alongside that career history rather than apart from it.
St. Charles Findings
Thursday, October 29 is the date the medical examiner's office made the cause public. The ruling closes the loop on the immediate cause, but it does not explain what produced the arteriosclerotic heart disease itself.
Robert also worked as a professional pilot, a detail that widened his public profile beyond soap operas. For readers who knew him through Days of Our Lives or Another World, the practical takeaway is simple: the death was natural, and the cause on record is arteriosclerotic heart disease.
