Among his works are biographies of Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster, Joel McCrea, Gregory Peck, and Dick Powell, and entries in Citadel Press's Films of series, including chronicles of the careers of Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Gene Kelly, Ronald Reagan, and James Stewart.
Anthony William George Thomas was born on July 31, 1927, near Portsmouth, England, the son of a bandmaster in the Royal Marines.
[2] In 1966, Thomas moved to Los Angeles and began a new career as a film historian and author, being particularly active from the late 1960s to early 1990s.
[1] His distinguished voice was heard for years as the announcer on the televised Kennedy Center Honors and American Film Institute Salutes.
[4] Thomas died on July 8, 1997, at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, of complications from pneumonia, at the age of 69.