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.
Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series · 1973
Filmography50+ titles
Chicago P.D.
Ozark
White Collar
Anna's Dream
Tales from the Crypt
No Other Love
It's a Miracle
The Americans
Rizzoli & Isles
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Nature
Billions
Blue Bloods
Night Gallery
The Practice
The Outer Limits
The Blacklist
Elementary
The Good Wife
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Bonanza
Pennywise: The Story of It
The Unforgivable
Roots: The Next Generations
NCIS: New Orleans
Law & Order
Touched by an Angel
The Waltons
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Timepiece
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
It
The Ice Road
Conviction
Wonder Boys
September 30, 1955
I Can Make You Love Me
Berlin Tunnel 21
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Experience
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Death in Small Doses
Every Act of Life
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
You'll Like My Mother
Taking Woodstock
To Save the Children
The Lazarus Project
A Thousand Men and a Baby
Riding the Rails