Richard Thomas
Birthday: 1951-06-13
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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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Berlin Tunnel 21
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the...
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Christmas vs The Walters
Diane Walters, an over-burdened mother of two with a third child on the way, strives to create the p...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...
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Andre's Mother
Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Kat...
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The Lazarus Project
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced ...
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Battle Beyond the Stars
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil ty...
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Riding the Rails
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
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Winning
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapoli...
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The Waltons' Homecoming
The Walton family is excited to learn that John Sr. will be coming home for Christmas during the win...
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Christmas Day in the Morning
In December 2019, The Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square, and Bells at Temple Square joine...
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Last Summer
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tri...
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Timepiece
Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder whe...
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Annie's Point
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes f...
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The Christmas Secret
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discove...
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September 30, 1955
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies i...
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The Invaders
Nolan Wood is a pilot who uncovers a plot to promote the ecological destruction of Earth in order to...
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they a...
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Red Sky at Morning
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloo...
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To Save the Children
Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of ...
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I Can Make You Love Me
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties,...
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an em...
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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and ...
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The Million Dollar Kid
The Hunter family has hit the jackpot--scoring a winning 50 million dollar lottery ticket! But when ...
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignme...
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The Easter Story
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Final Jeopardy
A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in ...
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The Todd Killings
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper ...
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Time After Time
A young journalist returns home to work in the local newspaper. There again see his girlfriend, who ...
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Glory! Glory!
A rock singer revives a failing TV ministry, but the cost may be high when she falls for a reporter ...
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Cactus in the Snow
A young soldier attempts to lose his virginity before he leaves for Vietnam....
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Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of th...
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Wonder Boys
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...
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The Christmas Box
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in he...
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A Thousand Men and a Baby
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusia...
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You'll Like My Mother
Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finall...
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What Love Sees
Jean Treadway, a beautiful young girl in her twenties, comes from a world of wealth and privilege. G...
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Anna's Dream
After a gymnastics accident leaves her paraplegic, 18-year-old Anna Morgan returns to high school. B...
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Common Ground
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court or...
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Down, Out and Dangerous
An escaped killer convict (Richard Thomas) upheaves the lives of a San Diego businessman (Bruce Davi...
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A Waltons Thanksgiving
Follows the Walton family as they prepare enthusiastically for the annual Harvest Festival Fair on W...
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Big and Hairy
A boy moves into a new town and has difficulty making friends, so he joins the basketball team. Init...
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Go Toward the Light
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS....
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Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...
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Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
Theater producer and director Margo Jones pioneered the regional theater movement, supporting the wo...
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Barefoot In the Park
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers...
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Broadway: The Next Generation
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....
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Wild Hearts
When Bob Hart, a widowed police detective trying to raise a rebellious teenage daughter, inherits a ...
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The Red Badge of Courage
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and ...
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The Miracle of the Cards
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eigh...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in searc...
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Give Us Barabbas!
A drama detailing the transformation of Barabbas, a thief and murderer, who is chosen to survive by ...
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Linda
Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the wo...
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Taking Woodstock
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the fame...
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Precious Victims
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no tra...
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, tr...
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To Find My Son
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply ...
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Death in Small Doses
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immed...
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Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain P...
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Getting Married
A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in...
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Every Act of Life
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbrea...
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A Walton Easter
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new boo...
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No Other Love
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world ...
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Fifth of July
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with h...
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD....
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Hobson's Choice
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees....
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The Price for Silence
After the death of her father, a troubled woman returns home to confront the family who paid for her...
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The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NB...
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The Unforgivable
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society...
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Flood: A River's Rampage
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Ka...
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Johnny Belinda
While attempting to set up a communal garden in a poverty stricken rural community, Bill Richmond be...
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A Doll's House
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded....
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Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last th...
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The Silence
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to ta...
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In the Name of the People
John Burke is on death row for the murder of a young girl. He is worried about what will happen to h...
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A Walton Wedding
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashio...
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Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
Set against the backdrop of the magical White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, SACRED STAGE explor...
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