FILM DIRECTOR

Tommy Lee Wallace

1949 - Today

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Thomas Lee Wallace (born September 6, 1949) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror genre, directing films such as Halloween III: Season of the Witch and Fright Night Part 2 and also directing the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel It. He is a long-time collaborator of director John Carpenter, receiving his first credit as art director on Carpenter's directorial debut Dark Star. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Lee Wallace has received more than 697,775 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tommy Lee Wallace is the 1,351st most popular film director (down from 1,183rd in 2019), the 9,133rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,920th in 2019) and the 350th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 700k

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  • 44.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tommy Lee Wallace ranks 1,351 out of 2,041. Before him are Michael Caton-Jones, Dennis Gansel, Scott Derrickson, Mark Sandrich, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and Lucrecia Martel. After him are Stanley Tong, Carlo Vanzina, Alexander Hall, Tim Miller, Malik Bendjelloul, and Leon Shamroy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Tommy Lee Wallace ranks 564. Before him are Per Røntved, Micky Arison, Sunil Gavaskar, Wendy Sherman, Zbigniew Gut, and Paul Manafort. After him are Dan Ar Braz, Boris Plotnikov, Marc Garneau, Francisco Aguilar, Témime Lahzami, and Alberto Cardaccio.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tommy Lee Wallace ranks 9,133 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Jablonsky (1970), M. Scott Peck (1936), Lukas Haas (1976), Philander C. Knox (1853), Bill Laimbeer (1957), and Lauren Vélez (1964). After him are Gouverneur Morris (1752), Garth Brooks (1962), Abraham Baldwin (1754), Jimmy Garrison (1934), Edward Moore (1897), and Bam Bam Bigelow (1961).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Tommy Lee Wallace ranks 350. Before him are Frank Pierson (1925), Douglas Trumbull (1942), D. A. Pennebaker (1925), Howard Deutch (1950), Scott Derrickson (1966), and Mark Sandrich (1900). After him are Alexander Hall (1894), Tim Miller (1964), Leon Shamroy (1901), Peter Segal (1962), Allen Daviau (1942), and Robert Surtees (1906).

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Filmography

It
Director
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
6.918 / 10
Big Trouble in Little China
Director
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
May 30th 19867.2 / 10
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Director
A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask. Suddenly, Doctor Daniel Challis finds himself thrust into a terrifying nightmare.
Oct 22nd 19825.217 / 10