{"id":282032,"date":"2026-06-30T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282032\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:09:17","slug":"tom-ligon-dead-stage-screen-actor-served-on-sag-aftras-ny-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282032\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Ligon Dead: Stage & Screen Actor Served On SAG-AFTRA’s NY Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Ligon<\/a>, a veteran actor in films, TV and on Broadway who also was a longtime member of SAG-AFTRA<\/a> New York Local board, has died. He was 85. The actors union confirmed his death but did not provide a cause or other details.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on September 10, 1940, in New Orleans, Ligon got his start guesting on TV in the mid-1960s before booking a supporting role in the 1969 film musical Paint Your Wagon starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. That same year he starred in a pair of short-lived Broadway shows: Angela opposite Geraldine Page and Love Is a Time of Day with Sandy Duncan. He also appeared in numerous New York stage productions during the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe continued to work steadily onscreen from the 1970s into the 2010s, with films credits ranging from The Last American Hero and Bang the Drum Slowly \u2014 in which he also sang \u201cStreets of Laredo\u201d \u2014 to Joyride, Young Doctors in Love and Serial. His TV work included guesting on such popular series as Medical Center, Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman, Baretta, Dallas, Law & Order: SVU and daytime soaps The Young and the Restless, Loving, Santa Barbara, Another World and All My Children.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe also was an understudy in Broadway\u2019s Tartuffe in 1996.<\/p>\n

\n\tA SAG-AFTRA member for some 60 years, Ligon served on the New York Local\u2019s board and multiple committees, chairing the National Seniors Committee and co-chairing the NY Seniors Committee. He also was a strong advocate of the merging of SAG and AFTRA, which was finalized in 2012.<\/p>\n

\n\tLigon wed fellow actor K.C. Ligon (n\u00e9e Crawford) in 1976, and they remained married until her death in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Ligon, a veteran actor in films, TV and on Broadway who also was a longtime member of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,35185,108149],"class_list":["post-282032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sag-aftra","tag-tom-ligon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}