Tommy Lee Wallace
| Tommy Lee Wallace | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thomas Lee Wallace September 6, 1949 Somerset, Kentucky, US |
| Other names | Tommy L. Wallace, Tom Wallace |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Kyes (divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
Thomas "Tommy" Lee Wallace (born September 6, 1949) is an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing horror films such as Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Fright Night Part 2 and It. He is a long-time collaborator of director John Carpenter, getting his first credit as an art director on Carpenter's directorial debut Dark Star. Along with Charles Bornstein, he edited both the original Halloween and The Fog. Initially approached to direct Halloween II, a position eventually taken by Rick Rosenthal, he directed the following entry Season of the Witch.
Born Thomas Lee Wallace in Somerset, Kentucky, to Robert G. Wallace, and his wife Kathleen Wallace, he has one sister, Linda. He grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and attended high school at Western Kentucky University teachers training school (College High).
Wallace entered the film business from USC film school, starting as an art director and editor for commercials and industrial films. In 1976, he worked as sound effects editor and art director on Assault on Precinct 13, directed by longtime friend John Carpenter, with whom he had previously worked on 1974's Dark Star, a low-budget science-fiction comedy that started life as a student film and took years to make. In 1978, he served as production designer and editor of Halloween, also directed by Carpenter. (He gave co-editing credit to his assistant editor, Charles Bornstein.) In 1980, he served in the same capacity for Carpenter's next theatrical release, The Fog. In addition to his duties as co-editor and production designer, Wallace also appeared in Halloween intermittently as The Shape (the masked Michael Myers), and later in The Fog as several different ghosts; his voice was featured in both films as TV/radio announcers.
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