Actor John Aniston, who lengthy starred within the daytime cleaning soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and who was the daddy of “Mates” actor Jennifer Aniston, has died. He was 89.

His daughter confirmed Monday on Instagram that Aniston died Friday, sharing a number of photographs of them collectively. She didn’t point out the reason for dying.

“Candy papa…⁣ John Anthony Aniston,” she wrote. “You have been probably the most lovely people I ever knew. I’m so grateful that you simply went hovering into the heavens in peace — and with out ache. And on 11/11 no much less! You at all times had good timing. That quantity will ceaselessly maintain an excellent higher that means for me now I’ll love you until the top of time.”

His daughter signed off her publish with, “Don’t neglect to go to.”

A consultant for John Aniston declined to supply additional remark and representatives for Jennifer Aniston didn’t instantly reply Monday to The Instances’ requests for remark.

Aniston, whose profession spanned six a long time, was greatest recognized for taking part in villainous crime lord Victor Kiriakis on the daytime drama set within the fictional Midwestern city of Salem. Since his debut on the NBC collection in 1985, he had remained a gradual presence on the present. (The cleaning soap just lately moved to NBC’s streaming platform Peacock.)

The collection on Monday paid tribute to the late actor with a video montage posted on Twitter.

“Our hearts are damaged over the lack of our beloved member of the family John Aniston. We love you John. Your legend will stay on,” the tweet stated.

Aniston was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the function in 2017 and final summer season acquired the lifetime achievement award on the forty ninth Daytime Emmy Awards.

“Cleaning soap operas have simply the correct quantity of recognition. You get simply sufficient recognition to salve your ego and never sufficient to disrupt your life. Whereas some individuals, my daughter being one among them, can’t go wherever,” he stated in an prolonged interview with the Tv Academy Basis.

He additionally instructed the muse that his proudest profession achievement was performing in a Theatre East manufacturing of “The Royal Hunt of the Solar.” His profession regrets? Not being forged as Ted Baxter in “The Mary Tyler Moore Present,” a task that in the end went to Ted Knight. Aniston stated producers didn’t need “any risk of a romance between the character and Mary, and with me there would’ve been that risk.”

“As soon as I noticed it — you get pissed off about one thing — [Knight] was good for it,” he instructed the muse.

Born Yannis Anastassakis on the Greek island of Crete on July, 24, 1933, Aniston and his household moved to the US when he was 2. They shortened their final identify to Aniston and settled in Pennsylvania the place his mother and father opened a restaurant. He later graduated from Penn State College with a level in theater arts and started performing after a stint within the Navy.

Aniston started performing within the Sixties with a small half on the collection “New Man within the Precinct” and appeared in cleaning soap operas. He was first forged on “Days of Our Lives” in minor function as Eric Richards in 1970, but additionally appeared in cleaning soap operas “Love of Life” and “Seek for Tomorrow.”

“I used to be a mature grownup after I was 18. I didn’t actually begin working till I used to be 40,” he stated. “Typically you simply need to develop into issues.”

The actor additionally notched visitor roles in “Star Trek: Voyager,” “The West Wing,” “Gilmore Ladies,” “My Massive Fats Greek Life,” “American Desires,” “Chilly Case” and “Mad Males.”

Aniston was married to fellow actor Nancy Dow, Jennifer Aniston’s mom, from 1965 to 1980. She died in 1990.

In 1984, he married his “Love of Life” co-star Sherry Rooney, with whom he had a son, artist Alex Aniston.

Aniston is survived by his spouse and two kids.