Jay Pickett 1961-2021

Jay Pickett, Actor on ‘Port Charles,’ Dies on a Movie Set at 60.

Jay Pickett, an actor on the daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives, Port Charles and General Hospital, died Friday while making a movie in his home state of Idaho. He was 60.

Pickett’s death was announced on Facebook by Jim Heffel, his co-star and fellow producer on Treasure Valley. Pickett was portraying a cowboy in search of his long-lost daughter in the movie, which he also wrote.

“I lost a good friend and the world lost a great person,” Heffel wrote. “Jay Pickett decided to ride off into the Heavens. Jay died sitting on a horse ready to rope a steer in the movie Treasure Valley in Idaho. The way of a true cowboy.”