Biography
From Wikipedia Thomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 – June 18, 1971) was an American actor. Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York City, Gomez began his acting career in theater during the 1920s and was a student of the actor Walter Hampden. He made his first film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror in 1942 and by the end of his career had appeared in sixty films. Gomez was the first Hispanic-American to be nominated for an Academy Award when he was nominated for his performance in the 1947 film Ride...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
as Minister
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
Stay Away, Joe
1968
as Grandpa
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can success...
Shadow Over Elveron
1968
as Arturo Silvera
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, th...
The Power and the Glory
1963
as Delgado
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant ...
Summer and Smoke
1961
as Papa Zacharias
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
But Not for Me
1959
as Demetrios Bacos
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubi...
John Paul Jones
1959
as Esek Hopkins
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Malenkov
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including...
Collector’s Item
1957
as Ivor Hager
Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased col...
Trapeze
1956
as Bouglione
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a ...
The Conqueror
1956
as Wang Khan
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Night Freight
1955
as Haight
Trucker tries to put a railroad man out of business.
The Magnificent Matador
1955
as Don David
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who h...
Las Vegas Shakedown
1955
as Al 'Gimpy' Sirago
A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.
The Looters
1955
as George Parkinson
A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors--and also find $250,000 in cas...
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
1954
as Osman Aga
In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Cal...
The Gambler from Natchez
1954
as Antoine Barbee
A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
Sombrero
1953
as Don Homero Calderon
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
The Merry Widow
1952
as King of Marshovia
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Mars...
The Sellout
1952
as Sherrif Kellwin C. 'Casey' Burke
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Macao
1952
as Lt. Sebastian
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he misle...
Pony Soldier
1952
as Natayo Smith
Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation. His guide i...
Anne of the Indies
1951
as Captaine Edward Teach alias Blackbeard
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captai...
The Harlem Globetrotters
1951
as Coach Abe Saperstein
All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with impo...
Kim
1950
as Emissary
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English s...
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950
as Gen. Liguras - The Hawk
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...
Force of Evil
1950
as Leo Morse
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of...
The Furies
1950
as El Tigre
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
The Woman on Pier 13
1950
as Vanning
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
That Midnight Kiss
1949
as Guido Russino Betelli
Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new op...
Come to the Stable
1949
as Luigi Rossi
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospita...
Sorrowful Jones
1949
as Reardon
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a...
Angel in Exile
1948
as Dr. Esteban Chavez
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe ...
Key Largo
1948
as Richard 'Curly' Hoff
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and ...
Casbah
1948
as Louvain
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
A Double Life
1947
as Cassio (voice) (uncredited)
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Captain from Castile
1947
as Father Bartolome Romero
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...
Ride the Pink Horse
1947
as Pancho
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
Singapore
1947
as Mr. Mauribus
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...
Johnny O'Clock
1947
as Pete Marchettis
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partn...
Swell Guy
1946
as Dave Vinson
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.
Night in Paradise
1946
as King Croesus
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
The Daltons Ride Again
1945
as 'Professor' J.K.McKenna
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be ...
I'll Tell the World
1945
as J.B. Kindell
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
Patrick the Great
1945
as Max Wilson
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
Frisco Sal
1945
as Police Capt. Dan Martin
Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude...
Enemy Bacteria
1945
A Navy animation film about bacteria.
Can't Help Singing
1944
as Carstairs
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has hi...
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
as Police Capt. Drury
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring ...
Bowery to Broadway
1944
as Tom Harvey
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup...
The Climax
1944
as Count Seebruck
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obs...
In Society
1944
as Drexel
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree i...
Follow the Boys
1944
as Thomas Gomez (uncredited)
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical ...
To the People of the United States
1944
as Compton - Member of the Local Draft Board (uncredited)
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
Phantom Lady
1944
as Inspector Burgess
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
Crazy House
1943
as N.G. Wagstaff
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...
Corvette K-225
1943
as Smithy
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Frontier Badmen
1943
as Ballard
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get fo...
White Savage
1943
as Sam Miller
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
Arabian Nights
1942
as Hakim
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
Pittsburgh
1942
as Joe Malneck (Miners Union President)
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel...
Who Done It?
1942
as Col. J.R. Andrews
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder wh...
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942
as R.F. Meade
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terr...