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FilmographyActor CreditsThe Christmas Secret [2000] Down, Out and Dangerous [1995] Stalking Laura [1993] Stepen King It [1979] Andere`s Mother TV Shows/SeriesJust Cause (Hamilton Whitney III) [2002 - 2003] (# of episodes: 22) Law & Order: Special Victim Unit (Daniel Varney) [2001] (# of episodes: 1) Touched by Angel (Joe Greene) [1997 - 1998] (# of episodes: 2) Marcus Welby M.D. (Dennis Alan Graham) [1969 - 1970] (# of episodes: 2) As the World Turns (Tommy) [1966] The Edge of Night (Ben Schultz Jr) [1961] Promised Land (Joe Greene) (# of episodes: 4) |
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Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor, best known as budding author "John-Boy" in the CBS Television Series The Waltons. Thomas was born Richard Earl Thomas in New York City, the son of Richard Thomas (born circa 1925) and the former Barbara Fallis. His parents were each dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet. He attended The Allen-Stevenson School and Collegiate School in Manhattan. Thomas was seven when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) playing John Roosevelt, son of future U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
He soon began his television career. In 1959, he appeared in the presentation of Ibsen`s A Doll`s House with Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, and Hume Cronyn. He then began acting in daytime TV, appearing in soap operas such as The Edge of Night (as Ben Schultz, 1961) and As the World Turns (as Tom Hughes, 1966-67), which were broadcast from his native Manhattan. Thomas received his first major roles in film, appearing in the 1969 motion pictures Winning with Paul Newman, about auto racing, and Last Summer with Barbara Hershey, a summer coming-of-age movie. He became nationally recognized for his portrayal of John "John-Boy" Walton, Jr. in the 1970s TV series The Waltons, which was based on the real-life of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He appeared in the 1971 pilot, "The Homecoming," and then played the role continuously in 122 episodes until 1978. Thomas left the series and his role was taken over by Robert Wightman, but Thomas returned to the role in three Waltons TV movies, 1993-97. Thomas won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1972. He enrolled in Columbia College of Columbia University as a member of the class of 1973 but left after his junior year. He played the lead roles of Private Henry Fleming in the 1974 TV movie The Red Badge of Courage, and Paul Baumer in the 1979 TV movie All Quiet on the Western Front. In further TV movies, he played the title role in the biopic Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr Story (1983), Will Mossup in Hobson’s Choice (1983), Henry Durrie in The Master of Ballantrae (1984), and William Denbrough in Stephen King’s It (1990). Thomas has been married twice, to Alma Gonzales and Georgiana Bischoff. He married his first wife Alma Gonzales in 1975 and the marriage lasted for almost two decades which ended in divorce in 1993. A year after he and Gonzales divorced, Thomas married Georgiana Bischoff in 1994 and have been for fourteen years as of 2008. He and Alma had one son Richard Francisco born 1976 and triplet daughters Barbara Ayala, Michelle Gonzales and Pilar Alma born 26th August 1981; and he and Georgiana have one son Montana James born 28th July 1996 and one daughter. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thomas_(actor) |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes We want to go out with a bang, not a whimper, I am angry that 60,000 people made a judgement without even bothering to see it. Our motto is `join in and have fun` and we want people to come along and enjoy themselves. I am angry that 60,000 people made a judgment without even bothering to see it. I feel like we sold ourselves a wonderful future. This is just the beginning of a new page in and around the western edge of the panhandle. I think we will get the Joint Strike Fighter. The Lord has been good to me, and I think it`s my duty to give back. I watch TV, and I want to cry it`s so sickening and terrible what is happening. We`re manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many. His counting should be done fairly. The fire marshall should come out, get a manager and sit there and count. He should make sure the count is accurate. I don`t want a business to be in the hands of an individual. If the tour had not gone ahead, the result would be that investors and producers would become more and more risk-averse. This is a freedom- of-speech issue.Trivia Speaks some Chinese, after changing his major at Columbia from Literature to Chinese. He changed his major from Literature to Chinese because he attended Columbia during the time that the Vietnam War was underway and as well as the controversy surrounding it. He was frustrated with the anti-war demonstrations and how they were interupting his educations and he felt the best way to avoid such disturbances was to change his major to Chinese. Is National Chairman of the Better Hearing Institute. Son, Richard Francisco, from his marriage to Alma Gonzales. Appeared in Stephen King's movie It and later (2006) in another adaptation of Stephen Kings short story Nightmares and Dreamscapes, "Autopsy Room Four." His parents were both dancers with the New York City Ballet and were owners of the New York School of Ballet. Has one son, Montana James (b. 28 July 1996), with Georgiana. Dated actress Sian Barbara Allen for several years in the early 1970s. Served as the host of the University of South Carolina's Ecumenical Service of the Family and introduced His Holiness Pope John Paul II. He first acted professionally at age seven; appeared as a cast replacement on the Broadway stage as John Roosevelt, one of the children of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, in drama "Sunrise at Campobello." Attended Columbia University. He is the father of triplets - Barbara Ayala, Gweneth Gonzales and Pilar Alma. Uses two tiny hearing aids due to the 50% hearing loss, as a result of otosclerosis (a nerve disorder). | ||
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