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Actor Born: July 10, 1905 in Long Island, NY Death: June 18, 1971 in California Biography:Awarded a scholarship to a prestigious New York drama school at 17, "Thomas Gomez" first stepped on the Broadway stage as a cadet in "Walter Hampden"'s Cyrano de Bergerac. He joined "Alfred Lunt"'s company in the 1930s, playing character parts of varying sizes. He also made a pioneering television appearance in a 1940 broadcast of a long-forgotten playlet called "A Game of Chess". After garnering good reviews for his performance in the 1942 play Flowers of Virtue, Gomez was signed to play a megalomanic Nazi spy in his first film, "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1942). By virtue of his weight, his raspy voice and his baleful appearance, Gomez was often cast as heavies, though he evinced a preference for characters with "some rascality, warmth and dimension." Of Spanish heritage, Gomez refused to play Latin characters unless they could be presented "with sympathy, or at least with humanity." In... Full Biography
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