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Popular As | Tommy Lee Wallace |
Occupation | Director |
Age | 73 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Libra |
Born | October 08, 1949 ( Somerset, Kentucky, United States) |
Birthday | October 08 |
Town/City | Somerset, Kentucky, United States |
Nationality | United States |
Tommy Lee Wallace’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Tommy Lee Wallace was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Wallace entered the film Business while attending USC film school, starting as an art Director and film Editor for commercials and industrial films. While in school, he began collaborating with childhood friend and fellow student John Carpenter, working on Carpenter's Dark Star (1974), a low-budget, science-fiction comedy that began as a student film. In 1976, he worked as sound effects Editor and art Director on Carpenter's second film, Assault on Precinct 13. He continued working with Carpenter, serving as production designer and co-editor of Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980). In addition to his behind-the-scenes duties for these last two films, Wallace also appeared in front of the camera: intermittently as The Shape (the masked Michael Myers in the closet scene) in Halloween, and in The Fog as several different ghosts; his voice was also featured in both films as TV/radio announcers.
Wallace's work in television was varied, including directing episodes of the cult TV show Max Headroom; the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone; and Baywatch. At the height of television films popularity in the 1990s, Wallace directed several notable films including an adaptation of the Vincent Bugliosi novel And the Sea Will Tell (1991), The Comrades of Summer (1992), Steel Chariots (1997) and The Spree (1998).
In 1986, he performed the title song of Carpenter's film Big Trouble in Little China as part of the band The Coup de Villes, alongside Carpenter and another friend, Nick Castle.