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Richard Thomas
New York City, New York, USA
Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor, best known as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons. During his career, Thomas won an Emmy Awa…
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Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor, best known as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons. During his career, Thomas won an Emmy Award, and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. During his career, Thomas won an Emmy Award, and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.Thomas was born in Manhattan, the son of Barbara (née Fallis) and Richard S. Thomas, in 1951. 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.
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2022
A Waltons Thanksgiving
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2021
The Waltons' Homecoming
Movie Self - Narrator
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2021
The Unforgivable
Movie Michael Malcolm
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2021
Christmas vs The Walters
Movie Roger
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2021
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Movie Himself
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2021
The Ice Road
Movie Stunts
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2020
Christmas Day in the Morning
Movie Self
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2020
The Comey Rule
TV show Chuck Rosenberg
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2018
The Price for Silence
Movie Richard Davenport
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2018
Every Act of Life
Movie Self
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2017
Ozark
TV show Nathan Davis
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2016
Conviction
TV show Earl Slavitt
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2016
Billions
TV show Sanford Bensinger
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2016
Anesthesia
Movie Mr. Werth
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2014
NCIS: New Orleans
TV show Ezra Van Cleef
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2014
Chicago P.D.
TV show Adam Ames
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2013
The Blacklist
TV show David Foy
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2013
The Americans
TV show Frank Gaad
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2012
Elementary
TV show Mitch Barrett
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2012
The Music Teacher
Movie Ray
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2011
Time After Time
Movie
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2010
Blue Bloods
TV show Richard Walters
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2010
Rizzoli & Isles
TV show Prof. Dwayne Kravitz
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2009
White Collar
TV show William Wolcott
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2009
The Good Wife
TV show Ed Pratt
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2009
Taking Woodstock
Movie Don
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2008
The Lazarus Project
Movie Cop #2
- 2008
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2006
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
TV show Howard Cottrell
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2006
Wild Hearts
Movie Bob
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2006
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
Movie Tennessee Williams
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2005
Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
Movie Self - Narrator
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2005
Annie's Point
Movie Richard Eason
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2004
The Tony Danza Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2004
Century City
TV show Dr. Brezak
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2002
Anna's Dream
Movie Rod Morgan
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2002
Just Cause
TV show
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2002
Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled
Movie Stunt Double
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2002
Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
Movie Charles Ingalls
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2001
The Miracle of the Cards
Movie Dr. Neal Kassell
