Thom Christopher, the Daytime Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the mobster Carlo Hesser and his meeker twin brother, Mortimer, on the ABC soap opera “One Life to Live,” died on Dec. 5. He was 84. He was a longtime Pine Plains resident.
Christopher joined “One Life to Live” in 1990 as the drug trafficker Carlo Hesser and won the Daytime Emmy in 1992 for that role. He continued with the show after his character was seemingly murdered by playing Carlo’s brother, Mortimer, until his original character returned several years later.
He was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 1994 for his role as Dante Parou on the soap opera “Loving.” He also appeared on the “Guiding Light,” as well as other television shows and on stage, including on Broadway in the 1970s in “Emperor Henry IV,” “Noël Coward in Two Keys” and “Caesar and Cleopatra” and in occasional roles Off-Broadway thereafter.
Born on Oct. 5, 1940, in Queens, Christopher attended Ithaca College and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
He married Judith Leverone in 1971. She died in 2019.