Biography

John Edd Thompson was born on July 25, 1942 in Mobile, Alabama. He was an actor, known for Felony (1994), In the Heat of the Night (1988) and The Bold and the Beautiful (1987). He died on May 5, 2025 in Mobile County, Alabama, USA.

Earned his degrees in geosciences and communications from Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama respectively.

Graduated from Mobile, Alabama's Murphy High School.

One of the founding members of the Mobile Songwriters Association.

Member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

While studying journalism at the University of Alabama, Thompson decided he would rather pursue interests in radio and gained experience at WNPT-FM in Tuscaloosa. Thompson would later gain more radio experience in WARF in Jasper, Alabama, WTUF in Georgia and WABB in Mobile. In Mobile, he gained a job at WKRG doing a local country music show titled TV-5 Party Line. The station moved Thompson to weather in 1971, and he would end up doing weekend weather segments at WALA-TV in 1977, then affiliated with NBC. After six months, Thompson was moved to weekly weather.