Thomas Gomez
Thomas Gomez | |
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 Thomas Gomez in The Gambler from Natchez (1954) | |
| Born | Sabino Tomas Gomez July 10, 1905 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 18, 1971 (aged 65) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Car accident |
| Resting place | Westwood Memorial Park |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1942–1971 |
Sabino Tomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 – June 18, 1971) was an American actor.[1][2][3]
Life and career
Born Sabino Thomas Gomez, Jr., 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.
The future actor was born the son of Sabino T. Gomez, whose parents had emigrated to the U.S. from Spain. Thomas Gomez was the first Spanish-American to be nominated for an Academy Award when he received this accolade 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. Billboard lauded the "humanity and finely effective detail of his character work" in the short-running 1942 Broadway play The Flowers of Virtue.[4]
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.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | R.F. Meade, Nazi agent | |
| Who Done It? | Colonel J.R. Andrews | ||
| Pittsburgh | Joe Malneck | ||
| Arabian Nights | Hakim | ||
| 1943 | White Savage | Sam Miller | |
| Frontier Badmen | Ballard | ||
| Corvette K-225 | Smithy | ||
| Crazy House | N.G. Wagstaff | ||
| 1944 | Phantom Lady | Inspector Burgess | |
| Follow the Boys | Himself | Uncredited | |
| In Society | Drexel | ||
| The Climax | Count Seebruck | ||
| Bowery to Broadway | Tom Harvey | ||
| Dead Man's Eyes | Captain Drury | ||
| Can't Help Singing | Jake Carstairs | ||
| 1945 | Frisco Sal | Police Captain Dan Martin | |
| Patrick the Great | Max Wilson | ||
| I'll Tell the World | J.B. Kindell | ||
| The Daltons Ride Again | 'Professor' J.K.McKenna | ||
| 1946 | Night in Paradise | King Croesus | |
| Swell Guy | Dave Vinson | ||
| 1947 | Johnny O'Clock | Guido Marchettis | |
| Singapore | Mr. Mauribus | ||
| Ride the Pink Horse | Pancho | ||
| A Double Life | Cassio | Voice, Uncredited | |
| Captain from Castile | Father Bartolome Romero | ||
| 1948 | Casbah | Louvain | |
| Key Largo | Richard "Curly" Hoff | ||
| Angel in Exile | Dr. Estaban Chavez | ||
| Force of Evil | Leo Morse | ||
| 1949 | Sorrowful Jones | Reardon | |
| Come to the Stable | Luigi Rossi | ||
| That Midnight Kiss | Guido Russino Betelli | ||
| I Married a Communist | Vanning | ||
| 1950 | The Eagle and the Hawk | General Liguras | |
| The Furies | El Tigre | ||
| Kim | Emissary | ||
| 1951 | Harlem Globetrotters | Coach Saperstein | |
| Anne of the Indies | Blackbeard | ||
| 1952 | Macao | Lieutenant Sebastian | |
| The Sellout | Sheriff Kellwin C. Burke | ||
| The Merry Widow | King of Marshovia | ||
| Pony Soldier | Natayo Smith | ||
| 1953 | Sombrero | Don Homero Calderon | |
| 1954 | The Gambler from Natchez | Captain Antoine Barbee | |
| The Adventures of Hajji Baba | Osman Aga | ||
| 1955 | The Looters | George Parkinson | |
| Las Vegas Shakedown | Al "Gimpy" Sirago | ||
| The Magnificent Matador | Don David | ||
| Night Freight | Haight | ||
| 1956 | The Conqueror | Wang Kahn | |
| Trapeze | Bouglione | ||
| 1957 | Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (TV) | Ivor Hager | |
| 1959 | "Stranger at Night" (The Rifleman episode) (TV) | Artemus Quarles | |
| "Escape Clause" (Twilight Zone episode) (TV) | Mr. Cadwallader | ||
| John Paul Jones | Esek Hopkins | ||
| But Not for Me | Demetrios Bacos | ||
| 1961 | Dust (Twilight Zone episode) (TV) | Peter Sykes | |
| The Power and the Glory (TV) | Delgado | ||
| Summer and Smoke | Papa Zacharias | ||
| 1968 | Shadow Over Elveron (TV) | Arturo Silvera | |
| Stay Away, Joe | Grandpa | ||
| 1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Minister |
References
- ^ Obituary Variety June 23, 1971.
- ^ Obituary New York Times, June 20, 1971; page 50.
- ^ "Thomas Gomez, Veteran Actor, Dies at 65 After Brief Illness" Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1971; page 3.
- ^ Eugene Burr (June 13, 1942). "From Out Front". Billboard. p. 9. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
