# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:20:05.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-thomas"
name: "Richard Thomas"
slug: "richard-thomas"
description: "Richard Earl Thomas 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. He also received another Emmy nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for that role."
tagline: "American actor (b. 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Thomas_John-Boy_Walton_1973.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.88
  momentum:             8.751608127151776
  historical:           24.141868
  currentAttention:     21.24
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001796"
sources:
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    title: "رچرڈ تھامس (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد توماس (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Thomas (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ריצ'רד תומאס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Thomas (attore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リチャード・トーマス (俳優)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "리처드 토머스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Thomas (Schauspeler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thomas"
    title: "Richard Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thomas_(aktor)"
    title: "Richard Thomas (aktor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thomas"
    title: "Richard Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Томас, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Thomas (glumac)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Thomas (oyuncu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q492238"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19576"
    title: "Richard Thomas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump