Biography

Tom Farrell is an actor, writer and filmmaker who is frequently cast as various crazed cult leaders, supercilious fops, psychotic sadists/rapists, hirsute cross-dressers, red-neck racists, intolerable bores, demon-possessed serial murderers and sad old clowns. He has worked on both sides of the camera in film and television productions, has written and produced works for stage and screen and has performed on stages in both Carolinas for over thirty years. Tom has been writing for over fifty years and has been published in literary magazines, scholarly periodicals and scientific journals. He became addicted as a teenager to the process of film-making and maintains an active interest in film history as well as a vicarious fascination with salvaged 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm footage from the earliest eras of amateur home movies. He is an alumnus of the Actors Conservatory of NYC, the New York Bartending School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillis an alumnus of the Actors Conservatory of NYC.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Farrell

His first film, "Terror in the Toilet," shot in 1972 using a borrowed Super 8 camera and over a hundred rolls of toilet paper, won a an award from Eastman Kodak.