Forrest Compton, who played Col. Edward Gray onGomer Pyle: USMCand had a long run on the daytime soap operaThe Edge of Night, has died of complications from the coronavirus.
He was 94. Compton died Sunday, according to a report in theShelter Island Reporter. As Col. Gray, Compton regularly chewed out Frank Sutton's Sgt.
Vince Carter onGomer Pyle, which aired on CBS from 1964-69. This, of course, often came after Sutton had abused his favorite private, Gomer (Jim Nabors).
Compton was the third actor to play former cop and crusading Monticello district attorney Mike Karr onThe Edge of Night, starring on the CBS-ABC serial from 1971 until the show's cancellation in 1984.