Thom Christopher
Thom Christopher is a noted New York Actor who
has alternated work in film, television and theatre through out his
career.
Christopher’s film credits include
“Beirut”, “Ten Hundred Kings”, “Peril” “Butterfly Legend,” “Blood
and Urine,” “The Paper” directed by Ron Howard, “Street Hunter,”
“Space Raiders,” “Voices” and “S.H.E.”
On television, Christopher has
appeared in the made-for-television movies “Betrayed by Innocence,”
“Hellinger’s Law” and “Jackie, Ethel Joan: The Women Of Camelot” in
which he played Aristotle Onassis.
Christopher has also had regular
roles in several soap operas, including “One Life to Live,” for
which he’s received an Emmy Award and two Emmy nominations, “Loving”
for which he received an Emmy nomination and “The Guiding Light”.
Christopher’s other television
series work includes “Buck Rogers,” on which he was a series
regular, and guest-starring roles in “Law and Order,” “Kojak,”
“Harry O,” “T.J. Hooker,” “McLain’s Law,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Simon
& Simon,” “Hunter,” “The Renegades” and “The Rookies”.
On stage, Christopher made his
featured Broadway debut in the acclaimed production “Noel Coward in
Two Key”, opposite Anne Baxter, Hune Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. For
his role as Felix he received the Clarence Derwent and Theatre World
Awards. His other Broadway credits include George Bernard Shaw’s “Ceasar
and Cleopatra” and Pirandello’s “Emperor Henry IV,” both productions
which starred Rex Harrison.
Off Broadway, Christopher has
appeared in “Night Blooming Jasmine at the Tribecca Playhouse, “The
Changeling” and theatre for a New Audience, “The Triumph of Love” at
the CSC Repertory Company, “The Investigation of the
Murder in El Salvador” at the New York Theatre Workshop,
“Tamara” at the Park avenue Armory, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s
Nest” in which he starred as McMurphy, “The Merchant Of Venice” and
“Parnell.”
Christopher’s regional theatre
credits include “Oliver!,” directed by Jack Hofsiss, in which he
starred as Fagin, “Steve Wants To Play the Blues,” at the
Williamstown Theatre Festival, “ The Sound of Music,” in which he
starred as Captain Van Trapp, at the Tri-State Center For The Arts,
“Love Letters,” “Uncle Vanya,” The Miser,” “Dame Lorraine” at the
Los Angeles Theatre Center, “Wait Until Dark,” “Count Dracula,”
“Jacques Brel” and “A Little Night Music.”
Christopher was born in New York
and was educated at The High School for Performing Arts, Ithaca
College and The Neighborhood Playhouse.
