Thomas Thorne (September 22, 1885-March 11, 1910) was born in London to a theatrical family. His father, Fred Thorne, was a tragedian who also performed in New York. He resided in Washington Heights with his sister, Minnie Thorne.
Thorne’s election date to The Lambs is unclear.
His first role was a small one in 1903 with Annie Russell in Mice and Men, written by Madeleine Lucette Ryley. The following season he was onstage with Lily Langtry in Mrs. Deering‘s Divorce at the Savoy Theatre. Then came engagements with the Hunter-Bradford Players in Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., and in the Fawcett Stock Company in Baltimore.
Thorne appeared with Brother Lamb William S. Hart in The Squaw Man (1905), written by Edwin Milton Royle, with Maxine Elliot’s company in The Chaperon (1908), with Harrison Grey Fiske’s production The Gay Life as Dopey McKnight, and as the Duke in An American Widow at the Hudson Theatre.
Thorne’s last role was in The Fourth Estate, a comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, produced at the Wallack Theatre, on Oct. 6, 1909. He played a poet who becomes a cub reporter, whose first story is that of a suicide in the Tenderloin. The Liebler Company took the production on the road to Chicago’s Studebaker Theatre. On March 11, 1910, Thorne was found dead by hanging in the Alexandria Hotel in Chicago. He was 24 years old.