Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951 height 5' 8½" (1,74 m)) 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 F...
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Complete Filmography

A Waltons Thanksgiving
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Follows the Walton family as they prepare enthusiastically for the annual Harvest Festival Fair on Walton Mountain in 1934, but their lives are dramat...

The Waltons' Homecoming
2021
as Self - Narrator
The Walton family is excited to learn that John Sr. will be coming home for Christmas during the winter of 1933. However, when a storm threatens his a...

The Unforgivable
2021
as Michael Malcolm
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Christmas vs The Walters
2021
as Roger
Diane Walters, an over-burdened mother of two with a third child on the way, strives to create the perfect Christmas while her loving but dysfunctiona...

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
as Himself
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans aroun...

The Ice Road
2021
Stunts
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save th...

Christmas Day in the Morning
2020
as Self
In December 2019, The Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square, and Bells at Temple Square joined with award–winning star Kelli O’Hara and renowne...

The Price for Silence
2018
as Richard Davenport
After the death of her father, a troubled woman returns home to confront the family who paid for her silence. Kira Flynn grew up in a storybook NJ se...

Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

Time After Time
2011
A young journalist returns home to work in the local newspaper. There again see his girlfriend, who is now engaged. For her, this reunion will be a gr...

Taking Woodstock
2009
as Don
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happe...

The Lazarus Project
2008
as Cop #2
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death senten...

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
2008
as Self
A making of featurette of 12 Angry Men made exclusively for the Collector's Edition DVD.

Wild Hearts
2006
as Bob
When Bob Hart, a widowed police detective trying to raise a rebellious teenage daughter, inherits a Montana horse ranch, he jumps at the opportunity t...
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006
as Tennessee Williams
Theater producer and director Margo Jones pioneered the regional theater movement, supporting the work of new playwrights such as Tennessee Williams.

Annie's Point
2005
as Richard Eason
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Poi...

Anna's Dream
2002
as Rod Morgan
After a gymnastics accident leaves her paraplegic, 18-year-old Anna Morgan returns to high school. Because of time lost due to her injury and rehab, s...

Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled
2002
Stunt Double
The unspeakable evil of the soul-devouring djinn rises again in this fourth electrifying installment of the unstoppable Wishmaster horror legacy! But ...

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
2002
as Charles Ingalls
Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's ...

The Miracle of the Cards
2001
as Dr. Neal Kassell
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Seve...

The Christmas Secret
2000
as Jerry McNeil
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas...

Wonder Boys
2000
as Walter Gaskell
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago....

In the Name of the People
2000
John Burke is on death row for the murder of a young girl. He is worried about what will happen to his own young daughter after his execution. He asks...

The Million Dollar Kid
2000
as Ted Hunter
The Hunter family has hit the jackpot--scoring a winning 50 million dollar lottery ticket! But when the ticket is lost on the way to cashing it in, th...

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
1999
as Charles Ingalls
A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Fo...

Big and Hairy
1998
as Victor Dewlap
A boy moves into a new town and has difficulty making friends, so he joins the basketball team. Initially experiencing little success, his popularity ...

A Thousand Men and a Baby
1997
as Dr. Hugh Bud Keenan
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but th...

Flood: A River's Rampage
1997
as Herb Dellenbach
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Kate Vernon realise their town is next on the hit li...

A Walton Easter
1997
as John-Boy Walton
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans t...

Riding the Rails
1997
as Narrator
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers ...

Timepiece
1996
as Richard Evans
Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner come...

What Love Sees
1996
as Gordon Holly
Jean Treadway, a beautiful young girl in her twenties, comes from a world of wealth and privilege. Gordon Holly is a handsome but humble rancher, the ...

The Christmas Box
1995
as Richard Evans
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balan...

The Invaders
1995
as Jerry Thayer
Nolan Wood is a pilot who uncovers a plot to promote the ecological destruction of Earth in order to pave the way for alien colonization. Now, with th...

Down, Out and Dangerous
1995
as Tim Willows
An escaped killer convict (Richard Thomas) upheaves the lives of a San Diego businessman (Bruce Davison) and his pregnant wife (Cynthia Ettinger).

A Walton Wedding
1995
as John-Boy Walton
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two...

Death in Small Doses
1995
as Richard Lyon
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her ...

To Save the Children
1994
as David Young
Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is sh...

A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
1993
as John-Boy Walton
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhi...

Linda
1993
as Paul Cowley
Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far too much time to...

Precious Victims
1993
as Don Weber
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no trace of the kidnappers, they address the public for ...

I Can Make You Love Me
1993
as Richard Farley
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and...
Lincoln
1992
as John Hay (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
1992
as Gary Brown
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on J...

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
as James O'Hanlan
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about ...

Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1991
as Lieutenant Steven Scott
True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-marti...

Common Ground
1990
as Colin Diver
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus...

Andre's Mother
1990
as Cal
Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son...

The Easter Story
1990
as Mark (voice)
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, an...

Glory! Glory!
1989
as Rev. Bobby Joe
A rock singer revives a failing TV ministry, but the cost may be high when she falls for a reporter planning an exposé.

Go Toward the Light
1988
as Greg Madison
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.

Final Jeopardy
1985
as Marty Campbell
A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderou...

Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...

Hobson's Choice
1983
as Will Mossup
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
as Hank Williams, Jr.
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and as...

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
Executive Producer
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and as...

Johnny Belinda
1982
as William Richmond
While attempting to set up a communal garden in a poverty stricken rural community, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a mute, disheveled girl named Belin...

Fifth of July
1982
as Kenneth Talley Jr.
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggl...

Barefoot In the Park
1982
as Paul Bratter
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have jus...

Berlin Tunnel 21
1981
as Sandy Mueller
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, inc...

To Find My Son
1980
as David Benjamin
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with...

Battle Beyond the Stars
1980
as Shad
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
as Paul Bäumer
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerl...

No Other Love
1979
as Andrew Madison
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- d...

Getting Married
1978
as Michael Carboni
A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.

September 30, 1955
1977
as Jimmy J.
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.

The Silence
1975
as Cadet James Pelosi
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he i...
The Red Badge of Courage
1974
as Pvt. Henry Fleming
During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to real...

You'll Like My Mother
1972
as Kenny
Francesca, a pregnant Los Angeles widow, journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family. After being met with...

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
as John-Boy Walton
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in th...
Cactus in the Snow
1971
as Harley MacIntosh
A young soldier attempts to lose his virginity before he leaves for Vietnam.

The Todd Killings
1971
as Billy Roy
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year ol...

Red Sky at Morning
1971
as Joshua Arnold
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexic...

Last Summer
1969
as Peter
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationsh...

Winning
1969
as Charley
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing...
Give Us Barabbas!
1961
as Junge

A Doll's House
1959
as Ivor
A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.
The Christmas Tree
1958
as Joey
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s...