Tommy Lee Wallace

Tommy Lee Wallace (born September 6, 1949) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.He is best known for directing Season of the Witch and It.

Biography

Early life

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, KY and attended high school at Western Kentucky University teachers training school (aka College High).

Education

BFA in Design from Ohio University, Athens, OHMFA program in Film production at University Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Early film work

Wallace began to realize his dream of working in the film business in 1976 when he worked as the 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 took years to make. In 1978, he served as production designer and co-editor of Halloween, also directed by Carpenter. In 1980, he followed up his work as editor and production designer for Halloween by serving in the same capacity for Carpenter's next theatrical release The Fog. In addition to his duties as editor and production designer, Wallace also appeared in Halloween intermittently as The Shape (the masked Michael Myers) and in The Fog as several different ghosts.

Directorial debut

For Halloween II, John Carpenter, serving as producer, offered the directorial responsibilities to...
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