Randall England

Randall England died peacefully, surrounded by family, on 25 September 2026 in Los Angeles, aged 75, after a battle with esophageal cancer. His death was announced by his family in an online obituary and was widely reported on 11 November 2026 by TMZ, Deadline, The Daily Beast and soap opera outlets, which recalled his run as Jack Slater on General Hospital.

He was preceded in death by his father, Fred Adrian England, and his brother, David Lee England. He is survived by his daughter Micaela Reed, son-in-law Sam Reed, grandchildren Katherine and Julian Reed, his mother Catherine Burgess, his sister Linda Baker and extended family. The family asked that memorial donations be made to the Esophageal Cancer Action Network.

Randy Alan England was born in 1951 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of Fred Adrian England and Catherine, later Catherine Burgess. He had a brother, David Lee England, and a sister, Linda.

Growing up he was an accomplished baseball and football player. He attended Memorial High School in Tulsa, graduating in 1969, and then the University of Oklahoma, where he was a pitcher on the Sooners baseball team and graduated.

A trip to New York City set him on a new course. In the early 1970s he began modelling, a career that took him to London, Zurich, Milan and Los Angeles. His advertising and commercial work included campaigns for Viceroy cigarettes, Dunlop tyres, Michelob and PlayStation.

Back in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s he studied acting with Kim Stanley and Stella Adler. An audition brought him to Los Angeles, and he settled in Beverly Hills, where he lived for more than forty years.

In 1984 he landed the role that defined his career, Jack Slater on ABC's General Hospital. Slater arrived in Port Charles posing as a film producer while pursuing jewel theft and other schemes. England stayed in a front burner storyline for nearly a year, until the character was killed in a shoot out.

His film credits included Ruby and Oswald, Looker, Star Crystal, Dream Machine, Skyscraper, Hellborn, Cat City, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Shiner. On television he appeared in Dallas, The Young and the Restless and Baywatch, among other credits, and he appeared in the music video for Maroon 5's Sugar.

On stage he performed in All My Sons, The Glass Menagerie and Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, for which he shared a Drama-Logue Award for Best Ensemble Cast in 1994. He appeared in Yvette Heyliger's Autobiography of a Homegirl and played President Bill Clinton in Hillary and Monica at the 2003 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Through the 1990s and 2000s he continued to act, write and produce. His projects included Horsewelder, Angel of Florence and Normandie, a story about the Los Angeles riots centred on the Reverend Bennie Newton, a script called The House That Jack Built, and The Needs of Kim Stanley, a documentary in progress about his teacher. Late in life he was working on the story of his great-grandfather, Alexander Stephens Woody. He also recorded music under the name RAE.

In 1987 England married Jennifer Leigh Herreras, and their daughter, Micaela Rae, was born in 1989. His family said fatherhood became the centre of his life, and that becoming Pappaw to his grandchildren Katherine and Julian gave him another kind of happiness and purpose. He was a familiar figure in Beverly Hills, particularly on South Bedford Drive.

England's General Hospital villain was on screen for less than a year, but Jack Slater remained a well remembered part of the soap's hugely popular mid 1980s era, and fans and soap media marked his death with that storyline. Beyond daytime television, his career ran from international modelling to Hollywood films, Los Angeles stage work and independent writing and producing, and his family remembered him as charming, loving and generous with his time.