Richard Thomas
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Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.
He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons, for which he won one Emmy Award and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
He also starred in Stephen King's miniseries It and played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series The Americans.
Early life and education
Thomas was born on June 13, 1951 in Manhattan, New York, the son of Barbara Fallis and Richard S. Thomas. His parents were dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet.
Thomas has a nevus on his left cheek. He has stated that this led to his being turned down for a role in a television commercial in his youth.
He was a student at Columbia College, the undergraduate college of Columbia University, where he majored in Chinese before switching to the English department. After he landed the role in The Waltons, he left Columbia during his junior year because he had to commit to the role full-time in Los Angeles.
Personal life
Thomas married Alma Gonzales in 1975. In 1976, they had a son, Richard Francisco. Triplet daughters (Pilar, Barbara, and Gwyneth) were born in 1981. Thomas and Gonzales divorced in 1993.
Thomas married Santa Fe art dealer Georgiana Bischoff on November 20, 1994 and their son, Montana, was born in 1996. Bischoff has two daughters, Brooke and Kendra, from previous marriages. Thomas and Georgiana currently reside in Manhattan, New York. Two of their children (Montana and Kendra) also reside in New York City.
Acting career
Thomas made his Broadway debut in Sunrise, Illinois, at the age of seven. He appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television presentation of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1959, alongside Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, and Hume Cronyn. He began appearing on daytime television, including The Edge of Night, a Ben Schultz, 1961), A Flame in the Wind, and As the World Turns (as Tom Hughes, 1966–67), which were both broadcast from his hometown Manhattan. He appeared in "The Weary Willies" on NBC in 1970.
Thomas' first major film roles were in Winning (1969) and Last Summer (also 1969) with Bruce Davison and Barbara Hershey (a summer coming-of-age film). In 1971, he appeared in Red Sky at Morning and was the chief in Cactus in the Snow (an independent venture that is impossible to obtain through VHS, DVD, or some other method).
Thomas rose to international prominence in his role as John-Boy Walton in the 1970s television series The Waltons (which was based on writer Earl Hamner's life story) and then continued in 122 episodes until March 17, 1977. Thomas left the series and his character was taken over by Robert Wightman, but Thomas reprised his role in three Waltons TV films in the 1990s. (The first was a Walton Thanksgiving Reunion in 1993.) In 1973, Thomas received the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series.
In You'll Like My Mother, Thomas played against type as both murderer and rapist Kenneth Kinsolvent. Private Henry Fleming appeared in the NBC TV film The Red Badge of Courage (1974) and Paul Bäumer in the 1979 CBS TV film on the Western Front, portraying the lead roles.
In other television films, he played Col. Warner's younger son Jim in Roots: The Next Generation (the 1979 sequel to 1977's Roots), Will Mossup in CBS' Hobson's Favorite, and Jim Denbrough in Stephen King's epic horror story It's older brother Jim in 1985.
Thomas made his first Broadway appearance in over 12 years in 1980 as a replacement in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. In Battle Beyond the Stars, he appeared as Shad (the young farmer trusted to use mercenaries to save his planet from Sador and his invading forces).
In 1987, he appeared on stage in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., as part of the United States Constitution's one-man tour-de-force Citizen Tom Paine (playing Paine "like a star-spangled tiger, ardent about liberty, and willing to savage anyone who stands in his way." In 1990, he appeared with Nathan Lane at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles for Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata in the role of Stephan. He appeared in a Shakespeare Theater stage performance of Richard II in Washington, DC, in 1993.
In the Hallmark Channel film The Christmas Box starred Thomas O'Hara and his It co-star Annette O'Toole in 1995.
Thomas appeared in a trio of appearances at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut, including Hamlet (1987), Peer Gynt (1989), Richard III (1994) and Tiny Alice (1996). Joe Greene appeared in two episodes of Touched by an Angel in 1997 and 1998.
In 2001, he appeared in London's West End in a performance of Yasmina Reza's Art with Judd Hirsch. In 2005, Michael Frayn's Democracy on Broadway, as well as The Public Theater's Off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome in the same year, he appeared on the New York stage in As You Like It's production in Central Park of As You Like It.
It's a Miracle that it's a Miracle on TV. In 2003, he appeared in the series Just Cause for the PAX television network.
Thomas began a touring tour of Reginald Rose's play Twelve Angry Men with Cheers actor George Wendt, appearing in the pivotal role of Juror Eight opposite Wendt's Juror One.
Thomas was seen on Broadway in Race, a David Mamet play. James Spader, David Alan Grier, and Kerry Washington were among the cast members who directed Mamet's production. He appeared at the Off-Broadway New York Public Theater in Timon of Athens in February and March 2011.
Thomas appeared in the FX Network period spy drama television series The Americans, which premiered in January 2013.
Thomas appeared in The Little Foxes' 2017 revival and was nominated for the Best Featured Actor in a Play in a Play.
In Pittsburgh, CLO's production of A Musical Christmas Carol, Thomas portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in December 2018.
Thomas played Bodie Lord in the Amazon thriller television series Tell Me Your Secrets, which premiered in episode 5.
In three episodes of Netflix's season 4's Ozark, Thomas played Wendy Byrde's estranged father, Nathan Davis, in January 2022.
Thomas appeared in Atticus Finch's National Broadway tour of Harper Lee's book To Kill a Mockingbird beginning in April 2022.
