Thomas Jefferson (actor)

Jefferson in 1902

Thomas Lockyer Jefferson (September 10, 1856 – April 2, 1932) was an American film and stage actor in mostly silent films.

He was born to Margaret Clements Lockyer (died 1861) and actor Joseph Jefferson. The Burns Mantle Yearbook reported that he was sixth in a line of famous Jeffersons. He had leading roles in several films including The Grim Game (1919) with Harry Houdini. He also starred in two film adaptations of Rip Van Winkle as the title character, a role his father had performed on stage.

He toured the U.S. performing a starring role in the play Lightnin'. He married actress Daisy Jefferson and had three daughters from an earlier marriage.

Selected filmography

• The Sable Lorcha (1915)
• Only a Tramp (1915)

Lobby poster for Rip Van Winkle (1921)

• Under the Gaslight (1914)
• The Seats of the Mighty (1914)
• Rip Van Winkle (1914)
• Classmates (1914)
• No Place for Father (1913)
• Olaf—An Atom (1913)
• The Mainspring (1916)
• The Missing Links (1916)
• An Old-Fashioned Young Man (1917)
• A Hoosier Romance (1918)
• The Grim Game (1919)
• The Other Half (1919)
• The Spender (1919)
• Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919)
• Hearts Are Trumps (1920)
• White Youth (1920)
• The Little Grey Mouse (1920)
• A Splendid Hazard (1920)
• Help Wanted - Male (1920)
• The Girl in the Web (1920)
• The Idle Rich (1921)
• Rip Van Winkle (1921)
• My Lady's Latchkey (1921)
• Beauty's Worth (1922)
• Soft Living (1928)
• Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931)
• Forbidden (1932)
• The Hatchet Man (1932)

External links

• Thomas Jefferson at IMDb 
• Thomas Jefferson at the Internet Broadway Database