---
name: "Tom Thon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-thon"
fi1m_id: "tom-thon"
imdb_id: "nm0861123"
tmdb_id: 2195483
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-26T01:55:53.606748+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tom Thon

## Identity

Tom Thon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-thon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-thon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0861123
- **TMDB ID:** 2195483
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2195483

Actor. Born in Peoria, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Active:** 1990–present
- **Also known as:** Thomas E. Thon
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (2), 2010s 60 (1), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 2, Romance 2, Thriller 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $23m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2195483

## Biography

Tom Thon is an American actor, also credited as Thomas E. Thon. He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and moved to New York in 1948. After serving in the US Air Force in Vietnam, he studied industrial engineering and worked in the space and defence industry before becoming a division director for United Way of Long Island.

Thon began acting through community theatre in 1980 and joined the actors' union. He appeared as an extra in films including *Silent Madness* (1984), *Prizzi's Honour* (1985) and *Last Exit to Brooklyn* (1989). His early screen credits include the Deli Man in *Trust* (1990) and the News Vendor in *The Unbelievable Truth* (1989). He has since appeared in television series such as *Preacher* (2017) as the Pope, *MacGyver* (2020) as Thomas Edison, *Manhunt* (2017) as a political science professor, and *The Good Lord Bird* (2020) as an ancient man, as well as the film *Juror #2* (2024) as an elderly man. Since 1993 he has lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia.

*Sources: imdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Juror #2* (2024), Fi1m 75, as Elderly Man — [page](https://film.one/film/juror-2.md)
- *Lizzie* (2018), Fi1m 60, as Professor Wood — [page](https://film.one/film/lizzie.md)
- *The Unbelievable Truth* (1990), Fi1m 76, as News Vendor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-unbelievable-truth.md)
- *Trust* (1990), Fi1m 79, as Deli Man — [page](https://film.one/film/trust.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Juror #2* (2024), as Elderly Man — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/juror-2.md)
- *Kemba* (2023), as Judge Kellam
- *Bigfoot: The Conspiracy* (2020), as as Charlie
- *The Good Lord Bird* (2020), series, as Ancient Man
- *Kingpins* (2020), Actor
- *Love Takes Flight* (2019), as Walter Allen
- *The Lover in the Attic: A True Story* (2018), as Wakeman
- *Lizzie* (2018), as Professor Wood — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/lizzie.md)
- *Lore* (2017), series, as Dr. Isaac Bristol
- *Manhunt* (2017), series, as Political Science Professor
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, as Thomas Edison
- *Preacher* (2016), series, as The Pope
- *Good Grief Suicide Hotline* (2015), as Paul
- *Powers* (2015), series, as Security Guard Albert
- *Trust* (1990), as Deli Man — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/trust.md)
- *The Unbelievable Truth* (1990), as News Vendor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-unbelievable-truth.md)
- *Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery Theatre*, as Thomas Dunn English

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/tom-thon