Richard Thomas
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.
126 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 126
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
The Blacklist
2013
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Chicago P.D.
2014
Blue Bloods
2010
Elementary
2012
The Good Wife
2009
Bonanza
1959
Billions
2016
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
White Collar
2009
The Practice
1997
American Experience
1988
The Americans
2013
The Waltons
1972
Ozark
2017
NCIS: New Orleans
2014
Touched by an Angel
1994
Nature
1982
The Outer Limits
1995
Tony Awards
1956
The F.B.I.
1965
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Night Gallery
1970
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Dinah!
1974
Dave's World
1993
It
1990
Promised Land
1996
Conviction
2016
American Playhouse
1982
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
2006
Century City
2004
The Unforgivable
2021
Just Cause
2002
The Comey Rule
2020
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Lazarus Project
2008
Battle Beyond the Stars
1980
The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson
1998
Wonder Boys
2000
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Taking Woodstock
2009
Anesthesia
2016
Every Act of Life
2018
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
It's a Miracle
1998
The Invaders
1995
I Can Make You Love Me
1993
Winning
1969
Death in Small Doses
1995
Lincoln
1992
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
Last Summer
1969
The Silence
1975
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1991
The Million Dollar Kid
2000
No Other Love
1979
The Todd Killings
1971
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
1993
Broadway: The Next Generation
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The Miracle of the Cards
2001
Common Ground
1990
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
A Waltons Thanksgiving
2022
Wild Hearts
2006
Timepiece
1996
A Walton Easter
1997
A Walton Wedding
1995
Berlin Tunnel 21
1981
A Thousand Men and a Baby
1997
1, 2, 3 Go
1961
To Save the Children
1994
Glory! Glory!
1989
Johnny Belinda
1982
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
1999
You'll Like My Mother
1972
Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
2002
Down, Out and Dangerous
1995
Fifth of July
1982
Linda
1993
Flood: A River's Rampage
1997
The Invaders
1995
Annie's Point
2005
The Christmas Tree
1958
The Christmas Box
1995
Christmas vs The Walters
2021
A Doll's House
1959
The Price for Silence
2018
Precious Victims
1993
To Find My Son
1980
The Waltons' Homecoming
2021
Time After Time
2011
The Christmas Secret
2000
September 30, 1955
1977
Red Sky at Morning
1971
The Red Badge of Courage
1974
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
Big and Hairy
1998
Barefoot In the Park
1982
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
What Love Sees
1996
The Master of Ballantrae
1984
Final Jeopardy
1985
The Easter Story
1990
Getting Married
1978
Hobson's Choice
1983
Andre's Mother
1990
In the Name of the People
2000
Anna's Dream
2002
Give Us Barabbas!
1961
Go Toward the Light
1988
Riding the Rails
1997
Christmas Day in the Morning
2020
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006
Cactus in the Snow
1971
Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
2005