Richard Thomas Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for the 1995 CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
• Has served as the Better Hearing Institute's national chairman
• His first professional acting job was as a cast replacement as John A․ Roosevelt in a Broadway production of "Sunrise at Campobello" when he was 7 years old
• Moved up from acting on Daytime soap operas broadcast from Manhatten to his most recognizable role as an aspiring writer on "The Waltons․"
• Has played numerous characters with unsettling psychological problems
• A nerve disorder left him with 50% hearing loss and uses two small hearing aids to correct the problem
• Introduced His Holiness Pope John Paul II at the University of South Carolina's Ecumenical Service of the Family