One Life To Live actor Kamar de los Reyes dies aged 56

Kamar de los Reyes (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Kamar de los Reyes, a television, film and voice actor best known for playing a gang member-turned-police officer in the soap One Life To Live and a villain in the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, has died in Los Angeles aged 56, his family announced.

De los Reyes died on Sunday following a brief battle with cancer, according to a statement from Lisa Goldberg, a publicist for his wife, Sherri Saum.