Trivia

Following an auto accident in late May 1971, Thomas Gomez was in a coma for three weeks before passing away on Friday, June 18th, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, CA.

He replaced Leo McKern on short notice in the role of Thomas Cromwell in the Broadway production of 'A Man For All Seasons' in 1961. This was his first Broadway role in over 20 years. McKern had found New York terrifying, and also greatly missed his family, who had remained in England; he handed in his notice almost as soon as the play opened. He highly praised Gomez in his autobiography.

Along with another hefty actor, William Conrad, Gomez was one of the few cast members of the film The Conqueror (1956) who did not die from cancer, reportedly caused by radiation in the desert locale where A-bombs had been tested.

Biography in "Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry. According to this: his paternal grandfather came from Santander, Spain; his paternal grandmother came from Gibraltar; his maternal grandfather came from Strasbourg, Alsace (present-day France); and his maternal grandmother came from Newmarket, County Cork, Ireland.