Roy Thinnes

Roy Thinnes belongs to a vanished era of television I have real affection for. As David Vincent in The Invaders, he carried an entire series as a lonely man no one believed, a paranoid-hero template that clearly fed later shows like The X-Files. His run from a Chicago high school through Los Angeles City College to leading roles, including a British science-fiction film and the Law and Order pilot, reflects a working actor who built a career on craft rather than celebrity. I respect performers like him who anchored a genre without ever demanding the spotlight.

Name (English)

Roy Thinnes

Name (Japanese)

ロイ・シネス

Reading

ろい・しねす

Born

April 6, 1938 (age 88)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor

High school

Amundsen High School

University

Los Angeles City College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Thinnes
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1281723

Tags

• Illinois
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.