Tom Chick

Tom W. Chick (born August 14, 1966) is an American television and movie actor, and independent journalist. His most prominent TV roles were as Oscar's boyfriend Gil in the US version of The Office, and the hard-hitting reporter Gordon in The West Wing. As a writer, Tom has contributed to many current and past video game publications. He recently ended his role as editor-in-chief for the now closed Fidgit gaming blog to move on to other opportunities. Tom actively maintains a gaming and movie blog on his web site Quarter to Three.

Chick attended Harvard Divinity School and received a Masters of Theological Studies with a focus on the Old Testament. Deciding not to pursue the ministry, he later moved to Hollywood, California, where he currently resides and pursues a career in writing about video games and occasionally acting for television roles. He is also the co-founder and administrator of a web-based site for games discussion, Quarter to Three.

In late September 2014, Tom Chick revealed in a podcast he had stage 4 Hypopharyngeal cancer, and was about to begin chemotherapy. This treatment would interrupt his podcasting activities at Quarter To Three due to an impact on his speaking voice. Though he was actively posting on the Quarter To Three Forums in Winter, 2014, he did not returned to the podcast until the March 17, 2015 podcast, at which he stated he was cancer free though his voice was still in recovery.

Chick is an independent journalist whose columns on video games have appeared online and in print. As a freelance columnist, he has written for a number of sites, including Firing Squad, Yahoo Games,GameSpy, GameSpot, Xtreme Gamer, 1Up,Rotten Tomatoes and others. His articles have also appeared in magazines such as the "Tom vs. Bruce" series in Computer Gaming World, and he was listed as "one of the field's rare American practitioners" in an article on "New Games Journalism" in the New York Times.

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