Thomas Gomez

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Thomas Gomez (born July 10, 1905 in New York City , New York , USA , † June 18, 1971 in Santa Monica , California , USA , actually: Sabino Tomas Gomez ) was an American film and theater actor .

Life

Gomez, an American with Spanish roots, joined the theater group after graduating from high school in 1923 with the help of a scholarship , which the two actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne , who were later also nominated for Oscars , co-founded. But soon he also took on independent theater engagements on Broadway and therefore celebrated his debut as a theater actor in October 1925 with the theater production Hamlet .

Gomez's acting career focused exclusively on the theater until the early 1940s, so that he did not appear in front of the camera for the first time until 1941 in the crime film The Voice of Terror . Gomez 'sustainably successful film was probably the 1947 film produced ride on the Pink Horse ( Ride the Pink Horse ), for which he in 1948 for the Oscar in the category Actor Best was nominated.

In his private life, Gomez led a very dissolute life, only visiting the best restaurants in Hollywood , and not least because of that, he soon weighed 290 pounds. Because of his distinctive face, he was usually offered the roles of villains, including in one of his last films, Return to the Planet of the Apes from 1970. At the same time, Gomez was a member of the Screen Actors Guild for over four decades .

Gomez, who was never married and had no children, died in June 1971 at the age of 65 from serious injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

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SURNAME Gomez, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomez, Sabino Tomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH 18th June 1971
Place of death Santa Monica , California , USA