Tom Wilson(LXXXVI)
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Tom Wilson is a creative artist whose professional career has explored
almost every imaginable artistic discipline, blending them into a
unique and very individual declaration of a life in the arts. A man of
fervent but private faith his whole life, the last few years have been
interesting, with hundreds of invitations to speak at conferences and
retreats, as well as the opportunity to record the music that he began
playing in church in the 1970s. Tom has enjoyed a successful career as
an actor, writer and comedian for over 20 years. He has more than 50
films, television shows and comedy specials to his credit, and has
appeared on talk shows with everyone from
Johnny Carson to
Jay Leno to
David Letterman to
Regis Philbin and
Kathie Lee Gifford. As a voice-over
actor, he has worked in dozens of animated series, including many
episodes of Nickelodeon's
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999).
As a comedian he has been a regular performer at the world-famous
Improv and Comedy Store since the day he arrived in Hollywood. His
self-written one-man show, "Cowboy Tommy," boasted a series of sold-out
engagements. He continues to act in movies and television, and he
performs comedy and music at theaters across America. As a writer and
producer, he's written for several prestigious literary magazines, as
well as for Universal Studios, Disney, Fox and Film Roman studios, and
produced a groundbreaking series of debates for Canadian television
called "The Seven Deadly Sins", which examined cultural values and the
role of the arts within them. As an avocation, he is a photographer and
painter, with a photograph in the permanent collection of the
California Museum of Photography and paintings on the walls of the
guest bedrooms of many close personal friends (or, as artists like to
say, "in many private collections.") Actor, comedian, writer, musician,
and artist - Tom Wilson has transcended the limitations of pop-cultural
celebrity to become an artist of honesty, gravity and grace. Thomas is
a graduate of Radnor high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was
known for his comedic personality.
