Alan Dysert was an American actor best known as the con man Sean Cudahy on the ABC soap opera All My Children, a role he played from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1988 to 1990. He later founded The Actor’s School in the Nashville area and wrote the 2023 memoir Lights, Camera, Cancer! He died on 23 October 2026, aged 75.

Born on 12 June 1951, he grew up on a farm in Oakwood, Illinois, and studied at the University of Illinois.