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Richard Thomas is a Actor, Executive Producer and Stunt Double American born on 13 june 1951 at New York City (USA)

Richard Thomas

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Birth name Richard Earl Thomas
Nationality USA
Birth 13 june 1951 (72 years) at New York City (USA)

Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama The Waltons, where he won one Emmy Award, and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

Biography

Thomas married Alma Gonzales on February 14, 1975. They had one son, Richard Francisco, born in 1976, and triplet daughters Barbara Ayala, Gweneth Gonzales and Pilar Alma, born August 26, 1981. They divorced in 1993.

Thomas married Georgiana Bischoff on November 20, 1994. They have one son, Montana James Thomas, born July 28, 1996. At the time she married Thomas, Bischoff had two daughters from previous marriages, Brooke Murphy and Kendra Kneifel. Daughter Kendra Kneifel has since changed her name to Kendra Thomas.

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Clu Gulager
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Roger Corman
Roger Corman
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Barton Heyman
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James Schamus
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Filmography of Richard Thomas (32 films)

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Anesthesia
Anesthesia (2016)
, 1h30
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kristen Stewart, Hannah Marks, Sam Waterston, Gretchen Mol, Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Close
Roles Mr. Werth
Rating60% 3.04583.04583.04583.04583.0458
When Professor Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston) gets violently mugged, it brings together the lives of people he's affected in the past.
The Music Teacher, 1h30
Directed by Ron Oliver
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Annie Potts, Shawn Roberts, Emilie Ullerup, Moneca Delain, Kery James, Richard Thomas
Roles Ray
Rating58% 2.9079652.9079652.9079652.9079652.907965
Faute de crédits, Alyson, professeur de musique, est contrainte par la direction du lycée de supprimer ses cours de comédie musicale. Peinés par la nouvelle, ses anciens élèves décident de monter un spectacle afin de récolter les fonds nécessaires pour maintenir ce cours. Réconfortée par autant de soutien, Alyson entraîne les adolescents, jusqu'au jour où Jace, la nouvelle star du lycée, décide de bouleverser toute la troupe.
Taking Woodstock, 1h55
Directed by Ang Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Imelda Staunton, Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Liev Schreiber, Edward Hibbert, Jonathan Groff
Roles Don
Rating66% 3.3464753.3464753.3464753.3464753.346475
Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents, Jake (Henry Goodman) and Sonia (Imelda Staunton), own the small dilapidated El Monaco Resort in White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York. A hippie theater troupe, The Earthlight Players, rents the barn, but can hardly pay any rent. Due to financial trouble, the motel may have to be closed, but Elliot pleads with the local bank not to foreclose on the mortgage and Sonia delivers a tirade about her struggles as a Russian refugee. The family is given until the end of the summer to pay up.
The Lazarus Project, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Paul Walker, Linda Cardellini, Piper Perabo, Malcolm Goodwin, Tony Curran, Bob Gunton
Roles Cop #2
Rating59% 2.9999852.9999852.9999852.9999852.999985
When Ben Garvey, a reformed criminal on parole, unexpectedly loses his job because of his criminal records, he turns to his ex-con brother which subsequently leads to a laboratory robbery of gold dust gone horribly wrong, and his brother killed. Sentenced to death, he wakes up from his lethal injection near a psychiatric hospital in a small Oregon town, where he is told that he has been given a second chance from God and to begin work as a groundskeeper at the local mental hospital. As time goes on, and with a wife and daughter he left behind, he wonders whether he has truly cheated death or if he has become part of a far more sinister plan for him.
Wild Hearts, 1h20
Directed by Steve Boyum
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Richard Thomas, Geoffrey Lewis, Hallee Hirsh, Nancy McKeon, A.J. Trauth, James T. Callahan
Roles Bob
Rating63% 3.193693.193693.193693.193693.19369
This script must be run from the command line
Annie's Point
Directed by Michael Switzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Betty White, Richard Thomas, Amy Davidson, Keir O'Donnell, Frances Bay, Jay Underwood
Roles Richard Eason
Rating66% 3.3363253.3363253.3363253.3363253.336325
Annie Eason (White), a recent widow, is living on her own before her son Richard (Thomas) decides that she shouldn't be and wants her to move to a retirement village where she will be taken care of. Annie instead runs away and embarks on a journey across America with her granddaughter Ella (Davidson), who wants to be a singer-songwriter. Annie plans to spread the ashes of her late husband at Annie's Point, a location on the Californian coast which he named after her.
Anna's Dream, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lindsay Felton, Cara DeLizia, Connie Sellecca, Melissa Schuman, Richard Thomas, Courtney Elizabeth Jines
Roles Rod Morgan
Rating49% 2.478042.478042.478042.478042.47804
Eighteen-year-old Anna Morgan becomes a paraplegic after a gymnastics accident. Her whole world has changed. Her boyfriend ignores her, she loses her friends and her parents treat her like a helpless child. Anna is befriended by a stranger, whose life changed overnight. He tells Anna that she can't get her old life back, but he can offer a special gift: hope
The Miracle of the Cards, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kirk Cameron, Karin Konoval, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Wingfield, Richard Thomas
Roles Dr. Neal Kassell
Rating50% 2.520122.520122.520122.520122.52012
The Miracle of the Cards is based on the true story of eight-year-old English youngster Craig Shergold (Thomas Sangster), who in 1989 is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Although the prognosis is negative, Craig's mother Marion (Catherine Oxenberg) becomes convinced that there is a cure for it, and that the means of finding that cure is to break the Guinness World Record for receiving greeting cards. Broadcasting a plea to everyone in the world, Marion is successful in bringing 350 million cards to Craig's door. One of those cards provides the key for Craig's ultimate salvation. A cynical reporter, Josh (Kirk Cameron), finds himself witnessing a miracle he can hardly believe.
Wonder Boys, 1h51
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Rip Torn
Roles Walter Gaskell
Rating71% 3.5982653.5982653.5982653.5982653.598265
Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter (Richard Thomas), is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor. Grady's third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a second novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending. The book runs to over two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.
In the Name of the People, 1h36
Directed by Peter Levin
Actors Amy Madigan, Richard Thomas, Scott Bakula, Gillian Barber, Robert Wisden
Roles Jack Murphy

The movie focuses on the Murphy family, whose daughter was murdered by John Burke. Sentenced to death, the man realises that his daughter will become an orphan. Unexpectedly he asks the Murphys to care for her.
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, 3h20
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Richard Thomas, Lindsay Crouse, Meredith Monroe, Barbara Jane Reams, Haley McCormick, Walton Goggins
Roles Charles Ingalls
Rating60% 3.0019253.0019253.0019253.0019253.001925
Une version de "La petite maison" qui couvre certains des événements qui se déroulent dans les trois derniers tomes de la série et dans "Les quatre première années" Laura vit dans la prairie près de De Smet, dans le Dakota du Sud et finit par rencontrer l'homme qu'elle épousera, Almanzo Wilder. La vie, cependant, n'est pas facile dans la prairie et après une récolte ruinée par la grêle, la perte de leur bébé, l'incendie de leur maison et un terrible épisode de diphtérie, les Wilder doivent faire des choix difficiles pour surmonter ces tragédies.
I Can Make You Love Me
Directed by Michael Switzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Richard Thomas, Brooke Shields, William Allen Young, Scott Bryce, Linda Emond, T. Max Graham
Roles Richard Farley
Rating63% 3.1989753.1989753.1989753.1989753.198975
Laura Black, a young and ambitious intern from Virginia, accepts a job at Kensitron Electronics International (KEI) in Silicon Valley, California. During a tour of her new workplace with future co-worker Chris, Laura meets long-time KEI employee Richard Farley, who is immediately infatuated with Laura's beauty. Richard invites her to a local tractor pull, but she politely declines the offer. Looking for a home, she later visits an apartment in Sunnyvale, and is accepted as a new roommate by the current tenant.
Linda
Linda (1993)
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Politic
Actors Richard Thomas, Virginia Madsen, Ted McGinley, Laura Harrington, J. Don Ferguson, Maria Howell
Roles Paul Cowley
Rating57% 2.851122.851122.851122.851122.85112
Two couples, Paul and Linda along with their friends Jeff and Stella, have been friends for about a year. They spend so much time together they eventually all go on vacation to Florida. Jeff and Linda are secretly having an affair but they spend so much time together that their spouses are getting suspicious. While on vacation things take a turn for the worse and spiral out of control. One spouse is dead and another is shot. The one innocent spouse is framed for murder.
Precious Victims, 1h33
Directed by Peter Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robby Benson, Frederic Forrest, Richard Thomas, Brion James, Cliff De Young, Park Overall
Roles Don Weber
Rating66% 3.331323.331323.331323.331323.33132
Accusée du meurtre de ses deux filles dont elle avait déclaré les disparitions à trois ans d'intervalle, une jeune mère de famille doit faire preuve de son innocence devant la justice.
Andre's Mother, 1h
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Thomas, Sada Thompson, Sylvia Sidney, Richard Venture, Haviland Morris
Roles Cal (Andre's Lover)
Rating76% 3.840563.840563.840563.840563.84056
Set at the Manhattan memorial service for Andre Gerard, who died of AIDS and was buried in Dallas several weeks earlier, the story focuses on his mother Katharine's inability to come to terms with his death or share her grief with Cal, the young man's lover. Her rage is directed not only at the man she never accepted and her own mother, who was less judgmental of her grandson's life, but at Andre himself as well.