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Richard Thomas<\/span><\/strong> is an American actor best known for playing John-Boy Walton<\/strong> in the hit 1970s TV series The Waltons<\/em><\/mark>, a role that earned him an Emmy Award in 1973. Born on June 13, 1951, in New York City, he has maintained a highly successful acting career for nearly seven decades across television, film, and theater.<\/div>\n
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Early Life and Family<\/div>\n
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  • Artistic Roots:<\/strong> He was born to Richard S. Thomas and Barbara Fallis, both professional ballet dancers and founders of the New York School of Ballet.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Child Prodigy:<\/strong> He entered the acting world at a very young age, making his Broadway debut at just seven years old in the 1958 play Sunrise at Campobello<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Education:<\/strong> He attended Columbia University, where he studied Chinese and English before leaving to pursue acting full-time.<\/span><\/li>\n

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    Career Highlights<\/div>\n
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    • The Waltons<\/em> (1972\u20131977):<\/strong> He achieved international fame as the eldest son and narrator, John-Boy. His performance made “Good night, John-Boy” one of the most famous catchphrases in television history.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Iconic Horror:<\/strong> He starred as the adult Bill Denbrough in the wildly popular 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s It<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Acclaimed Drama:<\/strong> In recent years, he gained critical praise as FBI Special Agent Frank Gaad in The Americans<\/em> and as Nathan Davis in Netflix’s Ozark<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Stage Mastery:<\/strong> A prolific theater actor, he recently spent three years touring the United States as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>. He also earned a 2026 Tony Award nomination for his role in the Broadway play The Balusters<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n

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      Personal Life<\/div>\n
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      • Marriages:<\/strong> He was married to Alma Gonzales from 1975 to 1993, and married Georgiana Bischoff in 1994.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Children:<\/strong> He is a father to seven children, which includes a son and identical triplet daughters from his first marriage, and a son with his current wife.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Advocacy:<\/strong> He suffers from cochlear otosclerosis, a condition causing hearing loss, and serves as an advocate and chairperson for the Better Hearing Institute.<\/span><\/li>\n

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        Richard Thomas is an American actor best known for playing John-Boy Walton in the hit 1970s TV series The Waltons, a role that earned him an Emmy Award in 1973. Born on June 13, 1951, in New York City, he has maintained a highly successful acting career for nearly seven decades across television, film, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}