Biography

During the epic 1972-73 ski season, Tom (aka Thomas) dropped out of high school and began his career in the ski industry at Mt. Baldy. At Baldy, Tom was an early adapter and used an old 8mm film camera for ski race training. In 1979, while living and racing out of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Tom was hired as a grip to help slide a cardboard barrel filled with Waterford Crystal Champagne glasses of a 90-meter ski jump for a national TV advertisement for the cardboard company.

After a great run in the mountains, Tom tried acting while at UCLA before moving on to King Hall (the UC Davis Law School). Over his 35+ year legal career, Tom's acting and storytelling skills have served him well as one of Northern California's top business bankruptcy lawyers. He also had artistic side gigs, as the Director of Electronic Media for his wife's training stable (Fox Farms), and over the past several years, he attended film school and worked on multiple short films, one of which as DP and Editor won multiple film festival awards.

In July 2023, Tom took a sabbatical to produce a SAG-approved film he had written, "The Rich Kid Rules" (based on his unpublished manuscript, "362 Rules of a High School Drop-Out").
- IMDb mini biography by: Thomas Willoughby