Thomas Gomez
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| Thomas Gomez | |
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| Born | Sabino Tomas Gomez July 10, 1905 New York, New York, USA |
| Died | June 18, 1971 (aged 65) (after a car accident) Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Occupation | actor |
Thomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 – June 18, 1971) was an Academy Award-nominated American actor.
Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York, New York, Gomez began his acting career in theater during the 1920s and was a student of the actor Walter Hampden. He made his first film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror in 1942 and by the end of his career had appeared in sixty films.
He received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Ride the Pink Horse (1947). Directed by and starring Robert Montgomery, it was later used as the basis for an episode of the same name for the television series Robert Montgomery Presents in which Gomez reprised his role.
His other film roles include Who Done It? (1942), Key Largo (1948), Force of Evil (1948), The Conqueror (1956) and his final film Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). A frequent performer on television, Gomez also appeared in guest roles in such series as The Twilight Zone, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Mr. Ed, Burke's Law, The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and Gunsmoke.
Gomez had many notable stage roles, in Broadway and off-Broadway shows, and replaced Leo McKern as Thomas Cromwell in the original Broadway run of A Man for All Seasons.
Thomas Gomez died in Santa Monica, California from injuries sustained in a car accident and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
| 1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Minister |
| 1968 | Stay Away, Joe | Grandpa |
| 1968 | Shadow Over Elveron (TV) | Arturo Silvera |
| 1961 | Summer and Smoke | Papa Zacharias |
| 1961 | The Power and the Glory (TV) | Delgado |
| 1959 | But Not for Me | Demetrios Bacos |
| 1959 | John Paul Jones | Esek Hopkins |
| 1956 | Trapeze | Bouglione |
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Wang Kahn |
| 1955 | Night Feight | Haight |
| 1955 | The Looters | George Parkinson |
| 1955 | The Magnificent Matador | Don David |
| 1955 | Las Vegas Shakedown | Al "Gimpy" Sirago |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Hajji Baba | Osman Aga |
| 1954 | The Gabler from Natchez | Captain Antoine Barbee |
| 1953 | Sombrero | Don Homero Calderon |
| 1952 | Pony Soldier | Natayo Smith |
| 1952 | The Merry Widow | King of Marshovia |
| 1952 | The Sellout | Sheriff Kellwin C. Burke |
| 1952 | Macao | Lieutenant Sebastian |
| 1951 | Harlem Globetrotters | Coach Saperstein |
| 1951 | Anne of the Indies | Blackbeard |
| 1950 | Kim | Emissary |
| 1950 | The Furies | El Tigre |
| 1950 | The Eagle and the Hawk | General Liguras |
| 1949 | I Married a Communist | Vanning |
| 1949 | The Midnight Kiss | Guido Russino Betelli |
| 1949 | Come to the Stable | Luigi Rossi |
| 1949 | Sorrowful Jones | Reardon |
| 1948 | Force of Evil | Leo Morse |
| 1948 | Angel in Exile | Dr. Estaban Chavez |
| 1948 | Key Largo | Richard "Curly" Hoff |
| 1948 | Casbah | Louvain |
| 1948 | Captain from Castile | Father Bartolome Romero |
| 1947 | A Double Life | Voice of Cassio |
| 1947 | Ride the Pink Horse | Pancho |
| 1947 | Singapore | Mr. Mauribus |
| 1947 | Johnny O'Clock | Pete Marchettis |
| 1946 | Swell Guy | Dave Vinson |
| 1946 | A Night in Paradise | King Croesus |
| 1946 | The Daltons Ride Again | McKenna |
| 1945 | I'll Tell the World | J.B. Kindell |
| 1945 | Patrick the Great | Max Wilson |
| 1945 | Frisco Sal | Police Captain Dan Martin |
| 1945 | Can't Help Singing | Jake Carstairs |
| 1944 | Dead Man's Eyes | Captain Drury |
| 1944 | Bowery to Broadway | Tom Harvey |
| 1944 | The Climax | Count Seebruck |
| 1944 | In Society | Drexel |
| 1944 | Phantom Lady | Inspector Burgess |
| 1943 | Crazy House | N.G. Wagstaff |
| 1943 | Corvett K-225 | Smithy |
| 1943 | Frontier Badmen | Ballard |
| 1943 | White Savage | Sam Miller |
| 1942 | Arabian Nights | Hakim |
| 1942 | Pittsburgh | Joe Malneck |
| 1942 | Who Done It? | Colonel J.R. Andrews |
| 1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | R.F. Meade, Nazy agent |
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| NAME | Gomez, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gomez, Sabino Tomas |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905-07-10 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York, New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971-06-18 (after a car accident) |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Santa Monica, California, USA |
