Overview
- His wife, Michele Dysert, posted on Facebook that Alan Dysert died on Friday, October 23, 2026, and asked that people celebrate his life.
- Dysert was best known for playing Sean Cudahy on All My Children, appearing in 79 episodes between 1980 and 1990, and he later worked as a producer and acting teacher.
- In 2023 he published Lights, Camera, Cancer!, in which he wrote about a long fight with a rare, aggressive and incurable cancer that included multiple surgeries, rounds of chemotherapy and dozens of CT scans.
- Although many outlets link his passing to the illness he described in his memoir, the family has not publicly released an official cause of death.
- He is survived by his wife Michele and their sons, Cody and Cooper, and tributes emphasize his work as a mentor at The Actor’s School and his influence on thousands of students.