He has also done some Shakespearean acting and has won a Tony award for his portrayal of a gay Vietnam vet in the play “The 5th of July.” Since leaving “The Waltons,” Thomas has became a familiar face on the tube, starring in close to 40 television movies. “I needed to do what John-Boy needed to do – I needed to get out,” he said. The son of two New York City ballet dancers, Thomas spent five years playing the aspiring teenage writer before he became wary of being typecast and left the show. Thomas is the only Walton kid to have a successful acting career after the show. John-Boy Walton, played by Richard Thomas This was a show about a poor, rural, large family growing up in the Depression. “It was the age of super cops, super lawyers, wonderful doctors, funny shows. “There was nothing like it on the air,” John-Boy actor Richard Thomas told the show. The British special chronicles the lives of the cast after “The Waltons” ended, showing how the young Waltons, while not having lives as perfect as they had on Walton’s Mountain, managed to avoid the pitfalls of drugs and crime that plagued the casts of many other ’70s and ’80s shows. Its theme and trademark ending – “Good night, John-Boy” – has become an American icon. The show – in which actors Ralph Waite and Michael Learned played the parents of seven children growing up on Walton’s Mountain – lives on forever in reruns. “The Waltons” ran for 10 years in the ’70s and ’80s, featuring the lives of a large clan of homespun country folk in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. The cast was reunited again this month for the British TV show After They Were Famous, produced by Yorkshire Television. One posed for Playboy, one battles a deadly disease, another drifts between dead-end jobs and another is a successful businessman. After the last “Goodnight, John-Boy” rang out from Walton’s Mountain, whatever happened to the young cast of the long-running hit series?
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