Thom Christopher, the actor recognized for his work on the cleaning soap opera “One Life to Live,” has died.
Christopher handed away on Thursday in New York on the age of 84.
The star performed villain Carlo Hesser on 56 episodes of the favored cleaning soap from 1991 till 2008.
Christopher’s explanation for dying will not be recognized.
His pal Steven Bergman confirmed the information in a submit on Fb, revealing that the star had been “sick for quite awhile now” however “fought through it all like a champ.”
“We spoke 2-3 times a month and always had great long conversations,” Bergman wrote. “He was such a smart man who gave great advice and told such fantastic stories.”
He additionally shared that he visited Christopher within the hospital on Monday, saying that the actor “was not fully coherent as he was on a lot of medication.”
“When I said my goodbye to him I looked him right in the eyes, told him he was a wonderful man who lived an incredible life,” Bergman continued.
He praised Christopher as a “great actor who entertained and gave joy to so many people for so many years” and “a great friend to everyone who had the privilege of being his friend.”
“He comprehended every word I said and replied back ‘thank you,’” Bergman went on. “I gave him a kiss on the forehead and said goodbye.”
“You were a great man Thom, enjoy the eternal peace that you so richly deserve.”
The actor’s former co-star Anthony Crivello additionally shared a tribute to his “dear friend of many years” in a heartfelt submit on Fb.
“He was always a gentleman, always supportive, and he and his wife Judith who proceeded him in death, where [sic] always gracious to me and welcoming,” Crivello captioned two photographs of him with Christopher.
Christopher’s spouse, Judith Leverone, died in 2019 on the age 88.
“Thom and I worked together on the #abc daytime series #onelifetolive in the 1990s. We’re seen here with the lovely #audrylanders who played my sister, and Thom my father.”
Crivello added, “It was a wonderful time, difficult hours and long days, but joyful each minute.”
“May Thom fly on Wings of Angels to be beside his beloved Judith, and may they enjoy each other’s company once again, beside the ‘Pearly Gates’ of heaven,” he concluded his submit.
Christopher’s work on “One Life to Live” gained him a Daytime Emmy Award in 1992 for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection.
Christopher was nominated twice extra in the identical class: in 1993 for “One Life to Live” and in 1994 for his work because the villainous Dante Partou within the cleaning soap “Loving.”
Born on October 5, 1940, in Queens, New York, Christopher attended Ithaca School earlier than finding out appearing at New York’s famed Neighborhood Playhouse.
He started his skilled life as an actor within the Nineteen Seventies, touchdown roles in two Broadway performs, as Felix “Noël Coward in Two Keys” (1974) reverse Anne Baxter and Jessica Tandy, and as Apollodorus in George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleopatra” (1977), starring Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar (a task Harrison additionally performed within the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor movie “Cleopatra”).
On TV, Christopher appeared on different cleaning soap operas apart from “One Life to Live,” together with “Guiding Light” and “The Edge of Night.” He additionally booked visitor star roles on common primetime sequence akin to “T.J. Hooker,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “Law & Order.”
