American television and film producer nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1989 for the feature film Dead Poets Society. He was also a producer for Insomnia (2002), among other films. He is also the producer of many successful television series from the 1970s into the 1990s such as Golden Girls for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice and won three consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Thomas was the producer of Blossom and many other TV series. He is the co-founder of Witt/Thomas Productions. Tony Thomas is the son of actor and philanthropist Danny Thomas and the former Rose Marie Cassaniti. He is the younger brother of actresses Terre Thomas and Marlo Thomas. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less