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Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith
A man with long grey hair tied in a ponytail, wearing black-rimmed glasses.
A screen capture of Griffith during a YouTube interview in December 2021.
Born
Thomas Ian Griffith Jr.

(1962-03-18) March 18, 1962 (age 62)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Other namesThomas Griffith
Alma materCollege of the Holy Cross
Occupations
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • producer
  • musician
  • martial artist
Years active
  • 1978–present
OrganizationIan Page Productions
Style
Television
Height6 ft 4.5 in (194 cm)[1]
Spouse
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(m. 1991)​
Children2

Thomas Ian Griffith (born March 18, 1962)[2][3] is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and martial artist.[4]

His best-known roles include Terry Silver in John G. Avildsen's 1989 martial arts film The Karate Kid Part III, which he later reprised in the fourth through sixth seasons of the Netflix television series Cobra Kai (2021–2025), as well as voicing his character in the video game Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising (2022);[5] head vampire Jan Valek in John Carpenter's 1998 neo-Western action horror film Vampires; warrior Taligaro in Raffaella De Laurentiis' 1997 sword and sorcery picture Kull the Conqueror; recurring character Larry Sawyer in the first season of The WB's teen drama series One Tree Hill (2004); and Catlin Ewing in NBC's soap opera Another World, which he helmed from 1984–1987.

He also wrote, story edited, co-produced, or supervised produced over sixty episodes of NBC's fantasy police procedural drama horror program Grimm from its second through sixth and final season (2012–2017), and has written, supervised producer, or co-executive produced over twenty episodes of Netflix's romantic drama series Virgin River during its fifth and sixth seasons (2023–2024). Griffith and his wife, Mary Page Keller, formed the independent film production company Ian Page Productions in the late 1980s, through which they produced a handful of films, including Night of the Warrior (1991), Ulterior Motives (1991), Excessive Force (1992), and Avalanche (1999).

During the early 1990s, he was positioned to be one of Hollywood's next big action stars.[6][7] From critics and journalists, he received frequent comparisons to actors like Jean Claude van Damme, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Jeff Speakman, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, and even Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and Mickey Rourke. Writing for the New York Daily News in 1992, Nancy Stedman offered "He's being touted as a better-looking version of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jean-Claude Van Damme. But with a difference: Muscles are a sideline with Griffith; he has spent years acting in theater."[8] At the eighth annual ShowEast film industry conference held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in October 1992, Griffith received the Star of Tomorrow Award.[9][10][11]

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  3. ^ Clary, David W. (March 1993). "Meet the Karate Kid's Worst Enemy". Black Belt. p. 18. Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2020. Griffith, 32... [interview necessarily conducted prior to March 1993 publication date]
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  5. ^ Petski, Denise (May 27, 2021). "Terry Silver Returns In 'Cobra Kai' Season 4". Deadline. Archived from the original on May 27, 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
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  7. ^ "Daily News from New York, New York". Newspapers.com. February 28, 1993. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  8. ^ Stedman, Nancy (August 13, 1992). "He's more than just a pretty hunk". New York Daily News. Retrieved January 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
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