Thom Christopher, the actor finest identified for enjoying mobster Carlo Hessler on ABC’s One Life to Dwell, has died. He was 84.
His dying was confirmed by his former OLTL co-star Anthony Crivello on Fb, who posted footage of their time collectively on the cleaning soap. Crivello performed his son.
“It was an exquisite time, tough hours and lengthy days, however joyful every minute,” wrote Crivello.
A New York Metropolis native, Christopher acquired his begin within the soaps within the 50s by enjoying Noel Douglas on The Fringe of Evening. He went on to develop into a journeyman actor in TV with roles in Cannon, Kojak, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, T.J. Hooker, Hunter, Homicide, She Wrote and Simon & Simon.
In 1990, he signed on to ABC’s OLTL because the mobster Carlo Hessler. The character was killed off two years later, however the work didn’t finish for Christopher; he then started enjoying Mortimer Bern, Carlo’s twin, on and off between 1996 to 2008.
Christopher’s memorable time on the sudser earned him a Daytime Emmy.
Christopher went on to play Dante Partou on Loving from 1993-94. He additionally had an arc as Col. Dax on Guiding Mild in the beginning of the aughts.
He was preceded in dying by his spouse Judith Leverone, who died in 2019.
“Might Thom fly on wings of angels to be beside his beloved Judith, and should they get pleasure from one another’s firm as soon as once more, beside the pearly gates of heaven,” Crivello wrote on Fb.
