New Delhi, June 14 -- Richard Thomas turned 75 on Saturday, June 13, 2026, the same week the Broadway production he is currently anchoring earned him his first Tony nomination since 1973. The actor American audiences will probably always know as John-Boy Walton on CBS's The Waltons is, fifty-three years after the Emmy that role brought him, back in the kind of conversation award voters have. The Balusters, the David Lindsay-Abaire family piece in which Thomas plays Elliott Emerson, sealed his Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall.

The Waltons, the CBS family drama Thomas anchored from 1972 to 1978, set him up for a career most American actors of his generation never recovered from. He won the 1973 Em...