Tom Byrd
| Thomas "Tom" Byrd | |
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| Born |
Thomas "Tom" Byrd May 18, 1960 Philippine Islands Reared in Florida, USA |
| Occupation |
(1) Boone Sawyer on NBC's Boone (1983-1984) (2) Lou Waller on UPN's Live Shot (1995) |
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Byrd was cast as young musician Boone Sawyer in NBC's Boone in 1983, but the series, created by sentimental author Earl Hamner, Jr., never garnered the needed ratings, as had Hamner's successful series, The Waltons and Falcon Crest.
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Thomas "Tom" Byrd (born May 18, 1960 in the Philippine Islands) is an American actor.
Byrd, who was reared in Florida, has primarily appeared on network television between 1981 and 2000. During the 1983-1984 season, at the age of twenty-three, he was cast as a teenager, Boone Sawyer, an aspiring Elvis Presley-style singer living in Tennessee during the 1950s, in the short-lived NBC series Boone.
Boone was the replacement program (Mondays at 8 p.m. Eastern) for Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie, which concluded a nine-year run in the same time slot in the spring of 1983. The program was created by the author Earl Hamner, Jr., who had been far more successful with his CBS series The Waltons. A critic described Boone as "an excellent show that didn't get a chance" in the fierce competition of network television: That's Incredible! on ABC and Scarecrow and Mrs. King on CBS.
Barry Corbin, a native Texan, played Byrd's father, Merit Sawyer, who considered the pursuit of a musical career to have been unlikely to succeed. Corbin later had a leading role on the CBS series Northern Exposure.Ronnie Claire Edwards, the Oklahoma City native who starred as Corabeth Godsey, the wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey (Joe Conley) in Hamner's The Waltons, played Boone's "Aunt Dolly".
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