Thomas Gomez
Born: 1905-07-10 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1971-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Thomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 – June 18, 1971) was an American actor. Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York City, 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. Gomez was the first Hispanic-American to be nominated for an Academy Award when he was nominated for his performance in the 1947 film Ride the Pink Horse. 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, The Rifleman, and Gunsmoke. Gomez had many notable stage roles, such as the one 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.
Filmography
1997
- Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes as Minister
1968
- The Outsider
- Stay Away, Joe as Grandpa
- Shadow Over Elveron as Arturo Silvera
1965
- The F.B.I. as El Presidente
- Laredo
1963
- Burke's Law as Caligula Foxe
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- The Power and the Glory as Delgado
1962
- The Virginian as Fedencio
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Truxton Bramley
- Mister Ed
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Summer and Smoke as Papa Zacharias
1960
- Route 66
- The Islanders as Darius
- The Aquanauts as Hakim
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Cadwallader
- Adventures in Paradise as Bello
- Riverboat as Gustaf Tourette
- But Not for Me as Demetrios Bacos
- John Paul Jones as Esek Hopkins
1958
1957
- Collector’s Item as Ivor Hager
1956
- Trapeze as Bouglione
- The Conqueror as Wang Khan
1955
- Gunsmoke as Agustin
- Playwrights '56
- The Looters as George Parkinson
- The Magnificent Matador as Don David
- Night Freight as Haight
- Las Vegas Shakedown as Al 'Gimpy' Sirago
1954
- Climax! as Senor Torres, Commandante of Police
- The Adventures of Hajji Baba as Osman Aga
- The Gambler from Natchez as Antoine Barbee
1953
- General Electric Theater as McMaster
- Medallion Theatre
- Sombrero as Don Homero Calderon
1952
- Macao as Lt. Sebastian
- The Merry Widow as King of Marshovia
- The Sellout as Sherrif Kellwin C. 'Casey' Burke
- Pony Soldier as Natayo Smith
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Anne of the Indies as Captaine Edward Teach alias Blackbeard
- The Harlem Globetrotters as Coach Abe Saperstein
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Pancho
- Lux Video Theatre as The Boss
- Force of Evil as Leo Morse
- Kim as Emissary
- The Furies as El Tigre
- The Woman on Pier 13 as Vanning
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Gen. Liguras - The Hawk
1949
- Sorrowful Jones as Reardon
- That Midnight Kiss as Guido Russino Betelli
- Come to the Stable as Luigi Rossi
1948
- Key Largo as Richard 'Curly' Hoff
- Casbah as Louvain
- Angel in Exile as Dr. Esteban Chavez
1947
- Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho
- A Double Life as Cassio (voice) (uncredited)
- Captain from Castile as Father Bartolome Romero
- Singapore as Mr. Mauribus
- Johnny O'Clock as Pete Marchettis
1946
- Swell Guy as Dave Vinson
- Night in Paradise as King Croesus
1945
- The Daltons Ride Again as 'Professor' J.K.McKenna
- Frisco Sal as Police Capt. Dan Martin
- Patrick the Great as Max Wilson
- I'll Tell the World as J.B. Kindell
- Enemy Bacteria
1944
- Phantom Lady as Inspector Burgess
- Follow the Boys as Thomas Gomez (uncredited)
- In Society as Drexel
- Dead Man's Eyes as Police Capt. Drury
- The Climax as Count Seebruck
- Can't Help Singing as Carstairs
- To the People of the United States as Compton - Member of the Local Draft Board (uncredited)
- Bowery to Broadway as Tom Harvey
1943
- Corvette K-225 as Smithy
- Crazy House as N.G. Wagstaff
- White Savage as Sam Miller
- Frontier Badmen as Ballard
1942
- Arabian Nights as Hakim
- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror as R.F. Meade
- Who Done It? as Col. J.R. Andrews
- Pittsburgh as Joe Malneck (Miners Union President)