In 1948, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance as the unyielding Dr. Austin Sloper in the original production of "The Heiress", which featured Wendy Hiller as his timid, spinster daughter.
Thomas Gomez, ki se je kot nemški vohun predhodno pojavil že v filmu "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror", je v igri odigral vlogo profesorja Moriartyja.