Thomas Ian Griffith
Biography
Thomas Ian Griffith is an American actor, screenwriter and producer who grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut and began his career on the New York stage, making his Broadway debut in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1980. He became known for playing Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III (1989), a role he later reprised in the Cobra Kai television series, and for head vampire Jan Valek in John Carpenter's Vampires (1998). His other film roles include Taligaro in Kull the Conqueror (1997), Max Parrish in Hollow Point (1996), and Jack Wild in Crackerjack (1994). On television, he played Catlin Ewing on Another World and Rock Hudson in a 1990 biopic. He later wrote, story edited or produced over sixty episodes of Grimm and over thirty episodes of Virgin River, and received the Star of Tomorrow Award in 1992.
66years old
Turns 67 on March 18in 156 days
- Born Hartford
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Thomas Ian Griffith Jr. (birth name)Also credited as Thomas Griffith
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 14 years1989 to 2003
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First role
Griffith made his Broadway debut in the summer of 1980, while he was a student at the College of the Holy Cross. He replaced featured player Tom Cashin in the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Big break
Griffith's agent sent him to try out for director John Nicolella when ABC was casting its television biopic of Rock Hudson. After a cold reading that Nicolella liked, he read again for a dozen ABC executives and learned the next day he got the part.
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Worked with
Thomas Ian Griffith shares two films with Tia Carrere, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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