‘All My Children’ star Susan Lucci’s husband, Helmut Huber, died on Monday at the age of 84 in New York. His cause of death remains unknown.

Born in October 1937 in Austria, Huber became a citizen of the US in January 1994. He gave up his career as a hotel and restaurant executive in 1982 to manage his wife’s career. He became the CEO of Pine Valley Productions. Huber was was also an esteemed chef, according to PEOPLE.

“A family man, he was a loyal friend, and loved them deeply,” a representative for Huber’s family told ET statement. “With a roaring sense of humor, larger-than-life personality, and a practical problem-solver, he lived his life to the fullest.”

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“Mr. Huber who formerly raced motorcycles in Austria was a first-rate skier, and avid golfer, belonging to the Garden City Golf Club and Westhampton Country Club.”

Previously, he had been asked to join the Austrian Ski Team but he chose to complete his apprenticeship at the Hotel Maria Theresia. He later studied at L’Ecole Hoteliere in Lausanne, Switzerland, graduating at the top of his class.

At the age of 21, Huber came to North America and started his career in Canada before making his way to New York at 23. Huber is known to have spoken several languages fluently. 

In the early 1960s he moved to Garden City, Long Island, as the executive chef at the Garden City Hotel.

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According to Deadline, Huber and Lucci met while working at the Garden City Hotel After just three weeks of dating, the couple married on Sept. 13, 1969.

Huber is survived by his wife Lucci, 75, and his two sons and two daughters as well as his brother, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.