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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.1404 |
| Birthday | 1951-06-13 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Richard E. Thomas, Richard Earl Thomas, ریچارد توماس, |
1981
Berlin Tunnel 21
6.7/8
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, inc...
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Berlin Tunnel 21
2021
Christmas vs The Walters
5/9
Diane Walters, an over-burdened mother of two with a third child on the way, strives to create the perfect Christmas while her loving but dysfunctiona...
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Christmas vs The Walters
1979
All Quiet on the Western Front
6.699/234
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerl...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1990
Andre's Mother
0/0
Katherine Gerard has lost her son Andre to AIDS. At his memorial service, we follow Katherine confronting the death of her son, the anguish of his lov...
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Andre's Mother
2008
The Lazarus Project
5.968/405
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death senten...
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The Lazarus Project
1980
Battle Beyond the Stars
5.373/233
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
1997
Riding the Rails
6.208/12
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers...
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Riding the Rails
1969
Winning
6/54
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing...
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Winning
2021
The Waltons' Homecoming
6/4
The Walton family is excited to learn that John Sr. will be coming home for Christmas during the winter of 1933. However, when a storm threatens his a...
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The Waltons' Homecoming
2020
Christmas Day in the Morning
0/0
In December 2019, The Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square, and Bells at Temple Square joined with award–winning star Kelli O’Hara and renowne...
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Christmas Day in the Morning
1969
Last Summer
6.2/51
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationsh...
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Last Summer
1996
Timepiece
7/7
Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner come...
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Timepiece
2005
Annie's Point
5.556/9
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Poi...
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Annie's Point
2000
The Christmas Secret
5.933/15
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas...
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The Christmas Secret
1977
September 30, 1955
6.8/10
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.
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September 30, 1955
1995
The Invaders
5/5
Nolan Wood is a pilot who uncovers a plot to promote the ecological destruction of Earth in order to pave the way for alien colonization. Now, with th...
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The Invaders
1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
7.289/19
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in th...
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
Red Sky at Morning
7.083/6
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexic...
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Red Sky at Morning
1994
To Save the Children
6.2/6
Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is sh...
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To Save the Children
1993
I Can Make You Love Me
6.697/33
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and...
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I Can Make You Love Me
1992
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
5.923/13
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on J...
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1991
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
6.4/17
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-marti...
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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
2000
The Million Dollar Kid
3.4/5
The Hunter family has hit the jackpot--scoring a winning 50 million dollar lottery ticket! But when the ticket is lost on the way to cashing it in, th...
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The Million Dollar Kid
1991
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
7.2/18
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about...
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1990
The Easter Story
7.375/8
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, an...
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The Easter Story
1985
Final Jeopardy
6.333/9
A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderou...
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Final Jeopardy
1971
The Todd Killings
4.583/12
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year ol...
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The Todd Killings
2011
Time After Time
5.733/15
A young journalist returns home to work in the local newspaper. There again see his girlfriend, who is now engaged. For her, this reunion will be a gr...
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Time After Time
1989
Glory! Glory!
8/2
A rock singer revives a failing TV ministry, but the cost may be high when she falls for a reporter planning an exposé.
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Glory! Glory!
1971
Cactus in the Snow
9/1
A young soldier attempts to lose his virginity before he leaves for Vietnam.
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Cactus in the Snow
1983
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
7.3/3
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and as...
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Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
2000
Wonder Boys
6.832/687
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago....
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Wonder Boys
1997
A Thousand Men and a Baby
6/2
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but th...
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A Thousand Men and a Baby
1995
The Christmas Box
5.467/15
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balan...
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The Christmas Box
1972
You'll Like My Mother
6.3/25
Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with...
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You'll Like My Mother
1996
What Love Sees
7.833/3
Jean Treadway, a beautiful young girl in her twenties, comes from a world of wealth and privilege. Gordon Holly is a handsome but humble rancher, the...
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What Love Sees
2002
Anna's Dream
8/1
After a gymnastics accident leaves her paraplegic, 18-year-old Anna Morgan returns to high school. Because of time lost due to her injury and rehab, s...
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Anna's Dream
1990
Common Ground
8.5/2
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus...
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Common Ground
1995
Down, Out and Dangerous
5.714/7
An escaped killer convict (Richard Thomas) upheaves the lives of a San Diego businessman (Bruce Davison) and his pregnant wife (Cynthia Ettinger).
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Down, Out and Dangerous
2022
A Waltons Thanksgiving
5.25/4
Follows the Walton family as they prepare enthusiastically for the annual Harvest Festival Fair on Walton Mountain in 1934, but their lives are dramat...
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A Waltons Thanksgiving
1998
Big and Hairy
4.8/8
A boy moves into a new town and has difficulty making friends, so he joins the basketball team. Initially experiencing little success, his popularity...
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Big and Hairy
1988
Go Toward the Light
7.714/14
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
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Go Toward the Light
1992
Lincoln
7.333/6
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
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Lincoln
2006
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
0/0
Theater producer and director Margo Jones pioneered the regional theater movement, supporting the work of new playwrights such as Tennessee Williams.
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Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
1982
Barefoot In the Park
6.333/6
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have jus...
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Barefoot In the Park
Broadway: The Next Generation
0/0
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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Broadway: The Next Generation
2006
Wild Hearts
6.3/11
When Bob Hart, a widowed police detective trying to raise a rebellious teenage daughter, inherits a Montana horse ranch, he jumps at the opportunity t...
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Wild Hearts
1974
The Red Badge of Courage
7.25/4
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to real...
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The Red Badge of Courage
2001
The Miracle of the Cards
7.031/16
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Seve...
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The Miracle of the Cards
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
6.8/5
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
2002
Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
6/2
Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's...
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1961
Give Us Barabbas!
10/1
A drama detailing the transformation of Barabbas, a thief and murderer, who is chosen to survive by an angry mob and that Jesus shall die.
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Give Us Barabbas!
1993
Linda
4.773/11
Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far too much time to...
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Linda
2009
Taking Woodstock
6.197/488
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happe...
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Taking Woodstock
1993
Precious Victims
7/3
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no trace of the kidnappers, they address the public for...
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Precious Victims
1993
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
7.333/3
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhi...
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
1980
To Find My Son
6.4/5
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with...
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To Find My Son
1995
Death in Small Doses
6.5/2
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her...
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Death in Small Doses
2021
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
7.413/40
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans aroun...
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Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
1978
Getting Married
6/3
A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.
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Getting Married
2018
Every Act of Life
6.4/10
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ...
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Every Act of Life
1997
A Walton Easter
7.333/3
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans t...
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A Walton Easter
1979
No Other Love
8/2
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- d...
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No Other Love
1982
Fifth of July
7/1
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggl...
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Fifth of July
2008
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
0/0
A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
1983
Hobson's Choice
7/1
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
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Hobson's Choice
2018
The Price for Silence
5.5/10
After the death of her father, a troubled woman returns home to confront the family who paid for her silence. Kira Flynn grew up in a storybook NJ se...
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The Price for Silence
1958
The Christmas Tree
2/1
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s...
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The Christmas Tree
2021
The Unforgivable
7.409/2121
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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The Unforgivable
1997
Flood: A River's Rampage
5.3/11
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Kate Vernon realise their town is next on the hit li...
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Flood: A River's Rampage
1982
Johnny Belinda
6.333/3
While attempting to set up a communal garden in a poverty stricken rural community, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a mute, disheveled girl named Belin...
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Johnny Belinda
1959
A Doll's House
10/2
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
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A Doll's House
1999
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
7/6
A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Fo...
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Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
1975
The Silence
9/1
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he i...
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The Silence
2000
In the Name of the People
5.5/2
John Burke is on death row for the murder of a young girl. He is worried about what will happen to his own young daughter after his execution. He asks...
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In the Name of the People
1995
A Walton Wedding
0/0
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two...
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A Walton Wedding
2005
Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
9/1
Set against the backdrop of the magical White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, SACRED STAGE explores what the Mariinsky Theater has meant to Russian...
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Sacred Stage: The Mariinsky Theater
2016
Anesthesia
5.719/130
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Anesthesia
1984
The Master of Ballantrae
6.25/4
The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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The Master of Ballantrae
2012
The Music Teacher
5/2
Music Teacher revolves around Alyson Daley (Potts), a high school music teacher who is on the brink of losing her beloved school music program because...
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