Richard Thomas (actor)
Richard Earl Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons. He also starred in the miniseries adaption of Stephen King’s It and played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX’s spy thriller series The Americans.
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Richard Earl Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons. He also starred in the miniseries adaption of Stephen King’s It and played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX’s spy thriller series The Americans. Thomas was born in Manhattan, the son of Barbara Fallis and Richard S. Thomas, in 1951. His parents were dancers with the New York City 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.
He left Columbia during his junior year because he had to commit to the role full-time in Los Angeles. In 1958, at age seven, Thomas made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello. In 1959, he appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame NBC television presentation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House with Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, and Hume Cronyn. In 1960, he was in a leading role in NBC’s Bonanza in an episode called \”The Weary Willies\”. He then appeared in soap operas such as The Edge of Night, A Flame in the Wind, and As the World Turns, which were broadcast from his native Manhattan.
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