Thom Christopher

Veteran American actor Thom Christopher is best known for his soap opera roles in the early 1990s: First as Daytime Emmy-winning role as mob boss Carlo Hesser and his twin brother Mortimer Bern in ABC’s long-lived soap opera, One Life to Live, and then as Dante Pardou in another ABC soap-opera, Loving. Before that, he was also known for playing half-man, half-bird warrior Hawk in the second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. His most recent screen role was in the 2017 movie ADDicted, an independent film about the dangers of Adderall addiction, which won several film festival awards.

Christopher was born in the Jackson Heights area of Queens, New York in October 1940. He made his television debut in 1974, in a famous soap opera of its time called The Edge of Night. His role won him a Clarence Derwent Award nomination for Best Supporting Male. His first major role, however, didn’t come until 1981, when he was cast as Hawk in the second season of comic-strip sci-fi series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

In 1990, after guest appearances in the likes of Murder She Wrote and T.J. Hooker, Christopher joined the cast of One Life to Live, playing both Pennsylvania mob boss Carlo and his twin brother Mortimer. He would play these characters on and off until 2008, and in 1992, he won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Between 1993 and 1994, he played Dante Pardou in Loving, winning another Daytime Emmy nomination.