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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 series The Waltons for which he won an Emmy Award. [2]
This first Walton child is known throughout the series as "John-Boy," is born in 1916 (according to the television show's chronology), and is the eldest son and child of Olivia Walton (née Daly) and John Walton Sr. John-Boy is based on creator / author Earl Hamner Jr (1923–2016), who narrates the opening and closing of each episode as the ...
The story is about the family of John Walton Jr. (known as John-Boy): his six siblings, his parents John and Olivia Walton, and paternal grandparents Zebulon "Zeb" and Esther Walton. John-Boy is the first of the seven children (15 years old in The Homecoming; 17 at the beginning of the series), [7] who becomes a journalist and novelist. Each ...
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, The Waltons and Falcon Crest.
The “Waltons” star now stars in the touring production of Broadway’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” opening in Kansas City on Tuesday. From John-Boy to Atticus Finch: Richard Thomas a natural ...
The Waltons’ Homecoming stars Bellamy Young (Prodigal Son) as Olivia and Logan Shroyer (This Is Us) as John Boy. Richard Thomas, who played John Boy in the original Waltons TV series, will serve ...
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In the 1990s, Kate McNeil appeared as Janet Gilchrist, fiance and then wedded wife of famous TV teen-ager character of the 1970s, now older and more mature main character "John Boy" Walton (Richard Thomas, born 1951), in the final three of subsequent six sequel / reunion made-for-TV films aired in the 1990s (1993, 1995 and 1997), following the ...