Alan Dysert, who played con artist Sean Cudahy on the ABC soap opera All my childrendied. He was 75 years old.
Dysert died Friday, his wife, Michele Dysert, announced on Facebook. He wrote about battling a rare and aggressive cancer for more than a dozen years in his 2023 memoir, Lights, camera, cancer!
“Thank you for loving me, for making me laugh, for the adventures, the memories and the beautiful life we have built together,” she wrote. “I would choose you again, in a heartbeat. My heart is broken, but I am so grateful for the love of my life. I will always love you.”
The 6ft 2in Dysert first appeared as the scheming Sean, brother of the respectable Tom Cudahy (Richard Shoberg), on All my children in 1979. He left the daytime drama in 1981 but returned for another stint in 1988-90.
“My scenes are better written than those shown on evening television,” he said. People magazine in a 1981 interview. “It’s such a fun role! I love it.”
Born June 12, 1951, Dysert grew up on a farm in Oakwood, Illinois. He graduated from Oakwood High School and the University of Illinois and worked in real estate and did stand-up before landing uncredited roles in a 1978 episode of the ABC series. Soap and in The next Cheech & Chong movie (1980).
After All my childrenDysert has worked as a producer and director — he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2015 film The senator – and taught acting in the Nashville area at Actor’s School, which he founded in 1991.
Besides his wife, whom he married in 2008, survivors include his sons, Cody and Cooper.
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