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Actor Born: June 13, 1951 in Manhattan, New York City, NY Biography:"Richard Thomas" was seven years old when he made his first Broadway appearance in "Sunrise at Campobello" (1958). The wide-eyed, mole-cheeked, sensitive-looking Thomas soon found himself very much in demand for television roles. He was seen in the distinguished company of "Julie Harris", "Christopher Plummer" and "Hume Cronyn" in a 1959 TV presentation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House", worked as a regular on the daytime soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Flame in the Wind", and co-starred with Today Show announcer Jack Lescoulie in the captivating 1961 Sunday-afternoon "edutainment" series 1-2-3 Go. While attending Columbia University, Thomas made his theatrical-film debut in "Downhill Racer", then settled into a series of unpleasant, psychologically disturbed characters in films like "You'll Like My Mother" (1971) and such TV series as Bracken's World. In 1971, Thomas was cast as John-Boy Walton in the... Full Biography
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