Trivia

First Chair Cellist in the Walla Walla Symphony Orchestra while attending his first two years at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

Acting teachers include Mira Rostova, Wynn Handman, Peter Kass, Martin Landau, Olympia Dukakis, John Fernald (former Director of RADA) & Norman Ayrton (LAMDA).

Acted in two films about the iconic Texas fort, The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) and The Alamo (2004).

While working on a TV project in Houston, Everett befriended a lady from Tyler, Texas and asked her to send him some cassettes of her just speaking; from that tape he developed the east Texas accent he employed in films such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990).

As a resident member of the acting company at the American Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford, Connecticut), he shared a house with other members of the company including Powers Boothe and Kate Mulgrew.

As of 2022, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Goodbye Girl (1977), Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Of those, Dances with Wolves (1990) is a winner in the category.

When he was awarded the ITT International Fellowship in the Fulbright Competition, one of the judges, actress Beatrice Straight became Everett's biggest supporter. She contacted her friend Laurence Olivier and asked him his opinion as to where her protégé should study in London; Olivier told Straight that he recommended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, where Everett later studied and matriculated.

Two movies, both comedic southern/western films in which Tom had a leading role (Hard Time Romance (1991) (John Lee Hancock's first film, also starring Leon Rippy and Mariska Hargitay) and Mi Amigo (2002) (also starring Burton Gilliam and Josh Holloway, directed by Milton Brown) never saw much of the light of day: Mi Amigo (2002) had a tiny DVD release; Hard Time Romance (1991) has never been seen in theaters, on TV, or DVD.

Dr. Hugo Iltis, the Czechoslovakian Botanist who in 1935 authored "Der Mythus von Blut und Rasse" ("The Myth of Blood and Race") which argued against the pseudoscientific basis of Nazi racial superiority, was Tom's great uncle.

Has shared the Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway and regional theatre stages with, to name a few, Tom Hulce, Philip Bosco, Hervé Villechaize, Tracey Walter, Rachel Roberts, Richard Gere, Henry Winkler, Morris Carnovsky; he's also shared the screen with, to name a few, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Ewan McGregor, Jon Voight, Dennis Quaid, Jack Lemmon, Leon Rippy, Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Kevin McKidd, Allison Janney, Don Cheadle and Stacy Keach'.

After receiving great reviews for his performance as a nebbishy joke writer in the comedy "Winning Isn't Everything" at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC directed by the legendary comedic director George Abbott, he got a call from a casting office that he was going to be tested in Los Angeles for a sitcom pilot and that he needed to immediately get on a plane. When he got the call he was cleaning the floors at the Actors Studio, where, at the time he was an "Observer," i.e. before he became a Lifetime Member. He told casting he didn't have enough money on him to get to the airport. Somehow or other casting got him the money and he got on the plane. The plane's departure was delayed 4 hours, and by the time he got to Los Angeles he was a wet noodle. He tested 5 hours later and ended up not getting the part. But life had lots of other good things in store for him.

He worked with James Keach in the play "Tom Paine" directed by Tom O'Horgan (director of Hair (1979)) and later worked with Stacy Keach in a beautiful scene in a cemetery in The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986) directed by Ray Danton (who gave him the job without auditioning him). "What a blessed thing to be given work by someone who just happens to appreciate the work that they have seen".

When he first came to NYC, his first hotel (in which he stayed for one night only) was the old Mills House, then known as The Greenwich, a flop house with urine smell and little cubicles with chicken wire mesh at the top of the walls and a lot of drunken drugged men - a fine introduction to New York and a long way from Oregon.

When his "Porchlight on in Oregon" album (LSP4562) first came out on RCA in l97l, before playing a gig in Winnepeg, Canada to promote the album, he first did a job at the Ohio State Fair, lip-synching and dancing to an industrial sponsored by the phone company.

In l971 when Everett's "Porchlight on in Oregon" album on RCA came out (with Eric Weissberg and David Bromberg as sidemen), Everett's first major concert of his own music was at The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village; Mississippi Fred McDowell was the opening act. Later, Everett opened for country vocalist Gene Watson and again for Kinky Friedman and the Jewboys at the now defunct Lone Star Cafe in New York, which closed in 1989.

Tom is a first cousin-one removed of Czech pianist Aliza Sommer-Herz, the subject of the 2014 Academy Award winning Documentary Short "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life.".

Tom is also related to the now deceased Viennese sculptress Irma Rothstein who emigrated to the United States in 1938 and also to the now deceased Viennese actress Jennie Gross.

Tom is related to the Viennese Actress Jenny Gross (1863-1904).

At the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference, Tom was the first to workshop the role of Joey in "The Last Tenant." Subsequently "The Last Tenant" by George Rubino was made into a t.v. movie with Tony LoBianco playing Joey as the son and Lee Strassberg as his father.

A friend of actor Irwin Keyes whom he met in NYC in l976.

After his sophomore year at Whitman College and before transferring back east for his junior year at Adelphi University, which he hadn't seen except in a catalog, he hitchhiked from a summer theatre he was working in in Colorado to Mazatlan, Mexico and then back up to Oregon. The longest time between rides was getting a lift two miles from his home in Oregon.