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- Died
- Birth nameThomas Bryant Ligon
- Handsome, chameleon character actor and sometimes lead, best known for his performances in Paint Your Wagon (1969), the TV series The Young and the Restless (1973), and Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) in which he also sang the title song. Ligon created the role of Orson in the prize-winning Off-Broadway musical 'Your Own Thing', and starred on Broadway opposite Geraldine Page in "Angela" and with Sandy Duncan in "Love is a Time of Day." While attending St. Alban's School in Washington, DC, he broke his leg playing football, and his interest turned from sports to theatre. At Yale, where he graduated as an English major, he was discovered by Tennessee Williams, who saw his performance as Kilroy in Williams' play, "Camino Real." Ligon became one of the most sought after young actors in New York in the 1960s.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseK.C. Ligon(December 31, 1976 - March 23, 2009) (her death)
- At age 67, sent an intruder tumbling to the pavement below with a hit on the forehead after the man had who entered Ligon's Greenwich Village apartment through the window one August afternoon in 2013.
- He and friend Sam Waterston shared a New York City apartment in the early 1960s when they were struggling young actors, splitting rent of $25 a month. Waterson left to get married.
- Tom Ligon and K.C. Ligon were married on New Year's Eve in 1976 by Leigh Taylor-Young in her home in Beverly Hills, California. Among those present were the bride's parents, Nora Dunfee and David Clarke, and one of Mr. Ligon's co-stars in Jump (1971), Sally Kirkland.
- Plays H. C. Curry in "The Rainmaker" play by N. Richard Nash directed by Tim Vasen (Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland, USA).
- Playing the Tiger in Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," directed by Giovanna Sardelli, at the Lark Theatre, New York City.
- [responding to news that a career burglar he once chased away was in jail] Well, he's not having much of a career right now. You have your ups and downs. It's like acting.
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