Richard Thomas (actor)


































Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas 2015.jpg
Thomas at the Peabody Awards, May 2015

Born
Richard Earl Thomas


(1951-06-13) June 13, 1951 (age 67)

Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

Occupation Actor
Years active 1958–present
Spouse(s)
Alma Gonzales
(m. 1975; div. 1993)


Georgiana Bischoff (m. 1994)

Children 5
Parent(s) Richard S. Thomas

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 played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series The Americans (2013–2016), appeared in Stephen King's mini series IT (1990), and had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Wonder Boys (2000).




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


    • 2.1 Later career




  • 3 Personal life


  • 4 Filmography


    • 4.1 Film


    • 4.2 Television films


    • 4.3 Television series


    • 4.4 Producer


    • 4.5 Director




  • 5 Awards and nominations


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Early life


Thomas was born in Manhattan, the son of Barbara (née Fallis) and Richard S. Thomas, in 1951.[1] His parents were dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet. He attended The Allen Stevenson School and the McBurney 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.



Career


Thomas soon began his television career. In 1959, he appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame NBC TV presentation of Ibsen's A Doll's House with Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer and Hume Cronyn.[2] He then began acting in daytime TV, appearing in soap operas such as The Edge of Night (as Ben Schultz, 1961), A Flame in the Wind, and As the World Turns (as Tom Hughes, 1966–67), which were broadcast from his native Manhattan.


Thomas received his first major film roles, appearing in Winning (1969) with Paul Newman, about auto racing,[3] and Last Summer (also 1969) with Bruce Davison and Barbara Hershey, a summer coming-of-age movie.[4] He starred in the Universal Pictures/Hal Wallis Production Red Sky at Morning (1971),[5] which was a financial failure.




Thomas on the set of The Waltons, 1973.


He became internationally recognized for his portrayal of John "John-Boy" Walton, Jr., in the 1970s TV series The Waltons, which was based on the real life story of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He appeared in the CBS television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971),[6] which inspired the commissioning of the largely recast series, and then played the role continuously in 122 episodes until March 17, 1977. 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. (The first was A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion in 1993.[7]) Thomas won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1973. He enrolled in Columbia College of Columbia University as a member of the class of 1973 but left after his junior year.


In 1972, he played against type as murderer and rapist Kenneth Kinsolving in You'll Like My Mother opposite Patty Duke.[8] He played the lead roles of Private Henry Fleming in the 1974 NBC TV movie The Red Badge of Courage,[9] and Paul Baumer in the 1979 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie on CBS All Quiet on the Western Front.[10]


In other TV movies, he played Col. Warner's younger son Jim in Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (the sequel to the Emmy-winning Roots);[11] the title role in the biopic Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr., Story (1983);[12] Will Mossup in the Hobson's Choice (CBS, 1983);[13] Henry Durrie in The Master of Ballantrae (1984) for Hallmark Hall of Fame;[14] Martin Campbell in Final Jeopardy (1985);[15] and the adult Bill Denbrough in Stephen King's It (1990).[16]



Later career


In 1980, Thomas made his first Broadway appearance in more than 12 years when he was a replacement in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July.[17] In 1980, he appeared as Shad, the young farmer entrusted to employ mercenaries to save his planet from Sador and his invading forces, in Battle Beyond the Stars.[18]


In 1987, he appeared on stage in Philadelphia and Washington DC in the one-man tour-de-force Citizen Tom Paine. In 1993, he played the title role in a Shakespeare Theater (Washington, DC) stage production of Richard II.[19]


Thomas starred with Maureen O'Hara and Annette O'Toole in the Hallmark Channel movie The Christmas Box in 1995. O'Toole and Thomas had starred in It together five years earlier.[20]


Thomas appeared in a quartet of performances at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut: Hamlet (1987),[21]Peer Gynt (1989), Richard III (1994), and Tiny Alice (1996). In 1997 and 1998, he appeared on Touched by an Angel.


In 2001, he appeared in London's West End in a theater production of Yasmina Reza's Art with Judd Hirsch;[22] on the New York stage in The Public Theater's production in Central Park of As You Like It (2005);[23]Michael Frayn's Democracy on Broadway (2004)[24] and the Primary Stages' Off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome (2004).[25]


He has served as national chairman of the Better Hearing Institute, having suffered a hearing loss in his early 30s.[26]


He hosted the PAX TV series It's a Miracle.[27][28] He starred in the series Just Cause in 2003 for the PAX TV network.[29]




Thomas with opera star and activist Stacey Robinson in 2014.


In 2006, Thomas began an American theater tour of Reginald Rose's play Twelve Angry Men, along with George Wendt at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, playing the pivotal role of Juror Eight opposite Wendt's Juror One.[30]


Thomas has provided voiceovers in Mercedes-Benz, BB&T and Aleve commercials. In the summer of 2008, Thomas made commercials for the Zaxby's restaurant chain.


In 2009–2010, Thomas was featured on Broadway in Race, a play by David Mamet. The production was directed by Mamet and included James Spader, David Alan Grier, and Kerry Washington.[31] In February and March 2011, he starred at the Off-Broadway New York Public Theater in Timon of Athens.[32]


Thomas had a supporting role in the FX Network Cold War drama The Americans, which debuted in January 2013.[33] He played Frank Gaad, an FBI counterintelligence supervisor helping to investigate KGB sleeper agents in early 1980s America.


Thomas appeared in the 2017 Broadway revival of The Little Foxes, and was nominated for a 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.[34]


In December 2018, Thomas portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in Pittsburgh CLO's production of A Musical Christmas Carol.[35]


His book of poetry, Glass (1981), was published in a letterpress limited edition by Kenward Elmslie's Z Press.



Personal life


Thomas married Alma Gonzales on February 14, 1975. They had one son born in 1976 and triplet daughters born in 1981.[36] The couple divorced in 1993.


Thomas married Georgiana Bischoff on November 20, 1994,[36] and they had one son born in 1996. Bischoff has two daughters from previous marriages.[36]



Filmography



Film


Sources: TCM;[37] AllMovie[38]




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Year
Title
Role
Notes
1969

Winning
Charley

1969

Last Summer
Peter

1971

Red Sky at Morning
Joshua Arnold

1971

The Todd Killings
Billy Roy

1971

Cactus in the Snow
Harley MacIntosh
aka You Can't Have Everything
1972

You'll Like My Mother
Kenny

1974

Sisters of the Space Age
Narrator
Short film
1977

September 30, 1955
Jimmy J.

1980

Battle Beyond the Stars
Shad

1989

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charles Ingalls
Video
2000

The Million Dollar Kid
Ted Hunter

2000

Wonder Boys
Walter Gaskell

2000

Bloodhounds Inc.
Robert Hunter
Video
2009

Taking Woodstock
Reverend Don Darren Pettie

2015

Anesthesia
Mr. Werth



Television films


Sources: TCM;[37] AllMovie;[38] TV Guide[39]

































































































































































































































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1959

A Doll's House
Ivor

1971

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
John-Boy Walton

1973

The Thanksgiving Story
N/A

1974

The Red Badge of Courage
Pvt. Henry Fleming

1975

The Silence
Cadet James Pelosi

1978

Getting Married
Michael Carboni

1979

No Other Love
Andrew Madison

1979

All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Baumer

1980

To Find My Son
David Benjamin

1981

Berlin Tunnel 21
Lieutenant Sandy Mueller

1981

Barefoot in the Park
Paul Bratter

1982

Pavarotti & Friends
Himself

1982

Johnny Belinda
William Richmond

1982

Fifth of July
Kenneth Talley Jr.

1982

Christmas at Kennedy Center with Leontyne Price
Himself

1983

Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story

Hank Williams Jr.

1983

Hobson's Choice
Will Mossup

1984

The Master of Ballantrae
Henry Durie

1985

Final Jeopardy
Marty Campbell

1988

Go Toward the Light
Greg Madison

1989

Glory! Glory!
Rev. Bobby Joe

1990

Andre's Mother
Cal Porter - Andre's Lover

1990

Common Ground
Colin Diver

1990

It
Bill Denbrough

1991

Mission of the Shark
Lieutenant Steven Scott

1991

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
James O'Hanlan

1992

A Thousand Heroes
Gary Brown
aka Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992

Lincoln

John Hay
Voice role
1993

I Can Make You Love Me
Richard Farley
aka Stalking Laura
1993

Precious Victims
Don Weber

1993

Linda
Paul Cowley

1993

A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
John-Boy Walton

1994

To Save the Children
David Young

1995

Death in Small Doses
Richard Lyon

1995

A Walton Wedding
John-Boy Walton

1995

Down, Out & Dangerous
Tim Willows

1995

The Christmas Box
Richard Evans

1996

West Virginia: A Film History
Narrator
Voice role
1996

What Love Sees
Gordon Holly

1996

Timepiece
Richard Evans

1997

A Walton Easter
John-Boy Walton

1997

A Thousand Men and a Baby
Dr. Hugh 'Bud' Keenan
aka Narrow Escape
1997

Flood: A River's Rampage
Herb Dellenbach

1998

Big and Hairy
Victor Dewlap

2000

In the Name of the People
Jack Murphy

2000

The Christmas Secret
Jerry McNeil

2001

The Miracle of the Cards
Dr. Neal Kassell

2002

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2

Charles Ingalls

2002

Anna's Dream
Rod Morgan

2005

Annie's Point
Richard Eason

2006

Wild Hearts
Bob

2011

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Dick



Television series











































































































































































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1961

Way Out
Jeremy Keeler
Episode: "The Croaker"
1961

Great Ghost Tales
Conradin
Episode: "Srendhi Vashtar"
1961

The Defenders
Johnny Remington
Episode: "The Boy Between"
1961–62

1, 2, 3 Go!
Himself
5 episodes
1961

From These Roots
Richard
Unknown episodes
1961

The Edge of Night
Ben Schultz, Jr.
Unknown episodes
1964

A Flame in the Wind
Chris Austin
Episode: "#1.1"
1965

Seaway
Martin Anderson
Episode: "Last Voyage"
1966–67

As the World Turns
Thomas Christopher Hughes #4
Unknown episodes
1969–70

Marcus Welby, M.D.
Dennis Alan Graham
2 episodes
1970

Medical Center
Toby Tavormina
Episode: "Runaway"
1970

Bracken's World
Alan
Episode: "Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon"
1970

Bonanza
Billy
Episode: "The Weary Willies"
1971

The F.B.I.
John "Chill" Chilton
Episode: "The Game of Terror"
1972

Night Gallery
Ian Evans
Episode: "The Sins of the Fathers"
1972–77

The Waltons
John-Boy Walton
124 episodes
1973

Match Game 73
Himself
5 episodes
1979

Roots: The Next Generations
Jim Warner
3 episodes
1989

The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible
Mark
Episode: "The Easter Story"
1990

Tales from the Crypt
Dr. Trask
Episode: "Mute Witness to Murder"
1990

It
Bill Denbrough
2 episodes
1995

The Outer Limits
Dr. Stephen Ledbetter
Episode: "The New Breed"
1995

The Invaders
Jerry Thayer
2 episodes
1996

Dave's World
Himself
Episode: "L.A. Times"
1997–98

Promised Land
Joe Greene
4 episodes
1997–98

Touched by an Angel
Joe Greene
2 episodes
1997

Riding the Rails
Narrator
TV documentary
1998

The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson
David Robinson
30 episodes
1999

The Practice
Walter Arens
Episode: "Committed"
2001

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Daniel Varney
Episode: "Scourge"
2002–03

Just Cause
Hamilton Whitney III
22 episodes
2006

Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Howard Cottrell
Episode: "Autopsy Room Four"
2009

Law & Order
Roger Jenkins
Episode: "Dignity"
2011

Rizzoli & Isles
Professor Dwayne Cravitz
Episode: "Rebel Without a Pause"
2013–16

The Americans
Frank Gaad
41 episodes
2013

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Nat Randolph
Episode: "Brief Interlude"
2013

White Collar
William Wolcott
Episode: "Master Plan"
2014

The Good Wife
Ed Pratt
Episode: "Dear God"
2016

Chicago P. D.
Adam Ames
Episode: "A Night Owl"
2016

Elementary
Mitch Barrett
Episode: "Henny Penny the Sky is Falling"
2016

Conviction
Earl Slavitt
Episode: "A Different Kind of Death"
2017

Billions
Sanford Bensinger
Episode: "The Oath"
2017

Blue Bloods
Congressman Richard Walters
Episode: "Ghosts of the Past"


Producer




  • What Love Sees (1996) (co-producer)


  • Summer of Fear (1996) (co-executive producer)


  • For All Time (2000) (co-executive producer)


  • Camping with Camus (2000) (producer)



Director



  • The Waltons (5 episodes)


Awards and nominations






























































Year
Association
Category
Nominated work
Result
1973

Primetime Emmy Awards

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

The Waltons
Won
1974

Golden Globe Awards

Best Actor – Television Series Drama[40]
Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Nominated
1975

Golden Globe Awards

Best Actor – Television Series Drama[40]
Nominated
1990

CableACE Awards

Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries

Glory! Glory!
Nominated
1995

CableACE Awards

Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries

Linda
Nominated
2016

Drama Desk Awards

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play[41]

Incident at Vichy
Nominated
2017

Tony Awards

Best Featured Actor in a Play[34]

The Little Foxes
Nominated


References





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External links








  • Richard Thomas on IMDb


  • Richard Thomas at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Richard Thomas at the Internet Off-Broadway Database


  • Richard Thomas at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television










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