Actor (stage, film, and television)
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Key moments and achievements from Thomas Ligon's life.
Thomas was born
· New York, New York, United States
Graduation
Graduated from Yale University as an English major. While performing as Kilroy in a Yale Dramatic Association production of Camino Real, he was discovered by the play's author, Tennessee Williams.
Graduation
Graduated from Yale University as an English major. While performing as Kilroy in a Yale Dramatic Association production of Camino Real, he was discovered by the play's author, Tennessee Williams.
Stage Role
Created the role of Orson in the off-Broadway musical Your Own Thing, part of an active early stage career that also included a 1963 Broadway debut and the title role in Billy Budd.
Stage Role
Created the role of Orson in the off-Broadway musical Your Own Thing, part of an active early stage career that also included a 1963 Broadway debut and the title role in Billy Budd.
Film Role
Played the backup catcher Piney Woods in the acclaimed baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly, in which he sang Streets of Laredo. It remained one of his best-remembered film roles.
Film Role
Played the backup catcher Piney Woods in the acclaimed baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly, in which he sang Streets of Laredo. It remained one of his best-remembered film roles.
Marriage
Married actress and dialect coach Katharine Dunfee Clarke, known as K.C. The couple were married for more than thirty years until her death in 2009.
Marriage
Married actress and dialect coach Katharine Dunfee Clarke, known as K.C. The couple were married for more than thirty years until her death in 2009.
Television Role
Joined the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless as Lucas Lorenzo Prentiss, a role he played through 1982 and the part for which he became most widely known to television audiences.
Television Role
Joined the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless as Lucas Lorenzo Prentiss, a role he played through 1982 and the part for which he became most widely known to television audiences.
Television Role
Played the inmate Alvin Yood on the HBO prison drama Oz from 2001 to 2003, returning to series television decades into his career.
Television Role
Played the inmate Alvin Yood on the HBO prison drama Oz from 2001 to 2003, returning to series television decades into his career.
Thomas Ligon passed away
