Biography
Jameson Thomas (born Thomas Roland Jameson; 24 March 1888 – 10 January 1939) was an English film actor. He was born in St George Hanover Square, London, and appeared on the stage from his early teens before making his screen debut in Chu Chin Chow (1923). He went on to appear in more than eighty films between 1923 and 1939.
In Britain he took leading roles in silent films including The Farmer's Wife (1928) and Piccadilly (1929). Thomas later moved to Hollywood, where he played supporting parts such as the fortune-hunting King Westley in It Happened One Night (1934) and uncredited roles in The Invisible Man (1933) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). He died of tuberculosis in Sierra Madre, California.
