REST WITH THE ANGELS
TOM LIGON
9/10/1940 - 6/29/2026
A WORLD APART T.D. Drinkard 1969-71
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS Lucas Prentiss 1978-82
LOVING Coach Billy Bristow 1983-84
ONE LIFE TO LIVE Carl, Dorian's accountant Unknown Year
DALLAS Unknown Role 1987
SANTA BARBARA William Addison 1987
ANOTHER WORLD Dr.Ted Briar 1990
ALL MY CHILDREN Dr. Snow 1994
ANOTHER WORLD Bailey Thompson 1995
Bus Station Ticket Clerk 1998
AS THE WORLD TURNS Emmett, Molly's Date 1997
ALL MY CHILDREN Reverend Fred Lomax 2004
and
AMERICAN HERITAGE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION II-- THE IMPOSSIBLE WAR Harrison 1972 (Special)
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (DAYTIME) 1979
OZ # 014208 Alvin Yood 2001 - 03
THE HEART, SHE HOLLER Bartender 2011 - 13
PodCasts:
SONGONAUTS Buzzkill 2017
THE TRUTH Various 2012 - 22
movies
NOTHING BUT A MAN Teenager 1964
PAINT YOUR WAGON Horton Fenty 1969
JUMP Chester Jump 1971
THE LAST AMERICAN HERO Lamar 1973
BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY Piney 1973
THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK Childs 1974
THE WIDE WORLD OF MYSTERY "The Black Box Murders" 1975 (Made for T. V.)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IN HOLLYWOOD Alan Campbell 1975 (Made for T. V.)
JUDGE HORTON AND THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Leslie Carter 1976 (Made for T. V.)
JOYRIDE Sanders 1977
YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE Soap Cameos 1982
THE DEMON MURDER CASE Philip Russo 1983 (Made for T. V.)
CUTTING CLASS Mr. Ingalls 1989
I BELIEVE IN AMERICA Oliver 2007
SERIAL CHEF Joseph Spataford 2007
LOST REVOLUTION Oliver 2011
FRONT COVER Gus LaMar 2015
BROADWAY
HAVE I GOT A GIRL FOR YOU! 12/2/1963 Steve Kozick
ANGELA 10/30/1969 - 11/1/1969 Jeff Dolan
LOVE IS A TIME OF DAY 12/22/1969 - 12/27/1969 Skipper Allen
TARTUFFE 5/30/1996 - 6/23/1996 Understudy -- Orgon; Visitor
THEATER
BILLY BUDD Billy Budd 1965 The Arena Theatre
YOUR OWN THING 1968 Orson Orpheum Theater
THE 39TH WITNESS 1968 Goldman The N. E. T. Playhouse
GOD SAYS THERE IS NO PETER OTT 1972 Peter Ott McAlpin Rooftop Theatre
GENIUSES 1982 Eugene Winter -- Replacement Playwrights Horizons
CAROUSEL 1985 - 86 Paper Mill Playhouse
ANOTHER PARADISE 1986 Players Theater
A BACKER'S AUDITION 1992 Roger Freed American Jewish Theatre
BREAKING LEGS 1993 Cape Playhouse Dennis Massachusetts
YOU NEVER KNOW January - February 1996 Paper Mill Playhouse
BAFO (BEST AND FINAL OFFER) 1998 Clay American Place Theater
EVELYN AND THE POLKA KING Hank Czerniak " The Polka King" The Actors Theatre of Louisville
THE RAINMAKER H. C. Curry Center Stage, Baltimore, Maryland
BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO Tiger The Lark Theatre, New York City
CAMINO REAL Kilroy
REQUIEM FOR WILLIAM
HARD TRAVELIN' The Arena Stage
DEN OF THIEVES
THE GOLF BALL
ALL THE WAY HOME Connelly Theatre New York City
THE AUDIENCE Connelly Theatre New York City
OUR TOWN George Gibbs
Marriage:
K. C. Ligon 12/31/1976 - 3/23/2009 (Her Death)
From The New York Times (Paywall)
He Used to Be on Police Dramas, Then He Met a Bad Guy in Real Life
By Michael Wilson
Aug. 16, 2013
A 72-year-old man stretched his tall, thick, worn self onto the little bed in his Greenwich Village apartment for an afternoon nap. It was Aug. 1, hot outside.
He was awakened by a noise. In the next room, a window to the street was open for the breeze, and through it, a stranger was climbing into his home.
The intruder filled the man in bed not with fear, but fury. How dare he?
The man in bed was Tom Ligon, who was born in New Orleans and then made his way to New York in the early 1960s to try to act for a living. He fell in with a kindred spirit named Sam Waterston, and the two shared a $25-a-month sublet until they lost that, and Mr. Waterston found this spot on a quiet block of the Village.
One night, the two went to a party, and by the end, the way Mr. Ligon remembers it, Mr. Waterston was mooning over a young lady. He moved out and married her. And Mr. Ligon stayed put.
(Mr. Waterston went on to great success, and the two remained friends. “He says, ‘You married me off to get the apartment,’” Mr. Ligon said.)
In 1969, Mr. Ligon landed a role in the film “Paint Your Wagon.”
Around the same time, a friend visiting the apartment brought along a young lady, and now it was Mr. Ligon’s turn to moon. She was an actress and dialect coach named Katharine Dunfee Clarke.
“We were a special pair,” Mr. Ligon said. They married and lived on and off in California pursuing roles, but they never gave up the apartment. “I closed it up,” he said.
He was handsome and muscular. He ate raw food and practiced yoga and meditation. Fans of 1970s police shows have Mr. Ligon’s face stamped in unconscious corners of their minds.
He played bit parts in “Baretta” and “Police Woman.” In an episode of “Starsky and Hutch,” he played a character listed in the credits as Young Man, a mumbling, brainwashed prisoner in a castle. He
played Cadet Ted Miller in an episode of “Charlie’s Angels.”
In 1978, Mr. Ligon stepped into the role for which he is widely remembered to viewers, mostly women, of a certain age: Lucas Lorenzo Prentiss on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” He was game for anything the show threw at him. (“Lucas discovered ‘Priscilla’ as a stowaway on the jet,” an online fan site wrote in a description of his character.) He spent more than four years on the show, until 1982. (“Lucas left town for parts unknown.”)
In the Village, he remained accustomed to shouts of “Lucas!” In 1989, he acted in “Cutting Class,” playing a father. His son was played by an unknown, Brad Pitt. Mr. Ligon told his wife, “He’s going to be a big star.”
He had a recurring role as a prisoner in “Oz” on HBO, and there were several appearances on various “Law and Order” properties.
He also visited his wife’s dialect and voice classes at the Circle in the Square Theater School.
His wife was blunt. She was said to have told James Gandolfini, cast in a stage production of “On the Waterfront,” that he wasn’t having a dialect problem, but an acting problem.
In 2009, she died of a blood disorder. She was 60 and terribly ill, spending her painful final weeks at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan.
Mr. Ligon came home around the corner to an empty apartment.
“It’s the first time I’ve lived alone,” he said.
He drank heavily. His solid frame softened and he grew a pot belly.
St. Vincent’s closed. “I’m glad it’s gone,” he said. Bad memories.
It has been four years. This is the man who was napping Aug. 1.
“Who comes through the window?” he said later. “Maybe one friend back in the ’70s, back when we were smoking a lot of dope.”
He leapt up from bed. “You don’t think, ‘Oh, I can’t move like that,’ ” he said. “I did this purely on reflexes. I take 10 minutes to get out of bed in the morning.”
Mr. Ligon yelled “my Japanese yell — ‘Hi-YA!’” he said. “I hit him in the top of the head with my fist.” The intruder fell to the sidewalk and ran away, losing a sneaker in his escape. The police took it for evidence. He remains at large.
At least his wife was not there. “She would have killed him,” he said.
https://deadline.com/2026/06/tom-ligon-dead-actor-1236970726/
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