New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Following the death of beloved General Hospital star Anthony Geary, details are emerging about the actor's generally private family life.

Best known for playing Luke Spencer in the long-running ABC soap opera, Geary passed away at 78 following complications during a medical procedure.

Spencer's marriage with another character in the show Laura Webber (played by Genie Francis) in a 1981 instalment of the show garnered 30 million live viewers, making it the highest-rated soap opera in American TV history.

Born in Coalville, Utah in 1947 as Tony Dean Geary, the future soap opera star was the son of contractor Russel Geary and homemaker Dana Anderson Geary, and had three sisters-Dana, DeAnn and Jana.

While Geary had ...