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Thomas Babson

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Thomas Babson
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Thomas Babson was born on 15 July 1945 in the USA. He is an actor, known for The Greatest American Hero (1981), Hill Street Blues (1981) and Cheers (1982).
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Richard Dean Anderson and Thomas Babson in MacGyver (1985)

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The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero
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TV Series
  • Colvin(as Thomas W. Babson)
Robert Clohessy, Michael Warren, and Bruce Weitz in Hill Street Blues (1981)
Hill Street Blues
8.2
TV Series
  • Webster(as Tom Babson)
Kirstie Alley, Woody Harrelson, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, and Rhea Perlman in Cheers (1982)
Cheers
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TV Series
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  • Tom Babson
  • Tom Ballard
  • Tom Sherry
Ice Cube, Lori Petty, and Michael Boatman in The Glass Shield (1994)
The Glass Shield
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  • 1994

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  • Ice Cube, Lori Petty, and Michael Boatman in The Glass Shield (1994)
    The Glass Shield
  • Neil Patrick Harris in Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989)
    Doogie Howser, M.D.
    • (as Thomas W. Babson)
  • Curtis McClarin in Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (1992)
    Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
  • Alyssa Milano, Tony Danza, Katherine Helmond, Danny Pintauro, and Judith Light in Who's the Boss? (1984)
    Who's the Boss?
  • Kathryn Harrold and Jack Scalia in Deadly Desire (1991)
    Deadly Desire
  • Kirstie Alley, Woody Harrelson, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, and Rhea Perlman in Cheers (1982)
    Cheers
    • ...
  • Richard Dean Anderson in MacGyver (1985)
    MacGyver
  • Denzel Washington, Ed Begley Jr., David Morse, Howie Mandel, Cynthia Sikes, Ellen Bry, William Daniels, and Ed Flanders in St. Elsewhere (1982)
    St. Elsewhere
  • Beasts (1983)
    Beasts
  • Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
    Scarecrow and Mrs. King
  • Manimal (1983)
    Manimal
  • Patrick Swayze, Tracy Scoggins, Fausto Bara, Randy Brooks, Paul Mones, Robert Thaler, and Brian Tochi in The Renegades (1983)
    The Renegades
  • Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman, Charlene Tilton, Jim Davis, Linda Gray, and Steve Kanaly in Dallas (1978)
    Dallas
    • (as Thomas W. Babson)
  • Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin, John Pleshette, and Ted Shackelford in Knots Landing (1979)
    Knots Landing
  • The Greatest American Hero (1981)
    The Greatest American Hero
    • (as Thomas W. Babson)

Script and Continuity Department

  • The Edge (1977)
    The Edge
    • (as Thomas W. Babson)

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The Glass Shield
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The Glass Shield

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    • July 15, 1945
    • USA
    • (2 children)
  • Other works
    Article: "Theatre's Illegitimate Child: The Screen Actor" by Thomas W. Babson. _The Dramatic Review_, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 17-20. Published by MIT Press.

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    When he starred in Snowbeast (1977), he played a character named Buster who is attacked by a bigfoot creature on the ski slopes. He actually was a ski patrolman at the time and did his own stunt when he fell down the slope.

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