Thomas Vincent Savini was born on November 3,1946 and is an American prosthetic makeup artist, actor, stunt performer and film director.
34 Facts About Tom Savini
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Tom Savini is known for his makeup and special effects work on many films directed by George A Romero, including Martin, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow and Monkey Shines; he created the special effects and makeup for many cult classics like Friday the 13th, Maniac, The Burning, The Prowler and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
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Tom Savini directed Night of the Living Dead, the 1990 remake of Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead; his other directing work includes three episodes of the TV show Tales from the Darkside and one segment in The Theatre Bizarre.
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Tom Savini was born on November 3,1946, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is of Italian descent.
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Tom Savini was raised Catholic and graduated from Central Catholic High School.
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Tom Savini attended Point Park University for three years, before enlisting in the United States Army.
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Tom Savini appeared in stage productions throughout college and continued on stage long after his tour of duty in Vietnam.
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Tom Savini served as a combat photographer during the Vietnam War.
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Against military protocol, Tom Savini fired into the bush without informing his superiors.
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Tom Savini is primarily known for his groundbreaking work in the field of special make-up effects, known as prosthetic makeup.
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Tom Savini continued to perfect those techniques in another film that year, Maniac.
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In 1986, Tom Savini worked with director Tobe Hooper on the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
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Tom Savini has worked on films by Italian director Dario Argento, first in 1990 on the film Two Evil Eyes and again on the 1993 film Trauma.
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Tom Savini's first appearance was a relatively straight, innocuous character in Martin in 1978; however, he played a menacing biker called Blades in his next film Dawn of the Dead, a role he reprised in zombie form with a cameo appearance in the 2005 continuation of the series, Land of the Dead.
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In 2007, Tom Savini had a role in Planet Terror, one of two stories in the Grindhouse film, directed by Robert Rodriguez.
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Tom Savini plays Deputy Tolo, who fights to save his town from an infestation of zombie-like creatures.
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In 2006, Tom Savini essayed the role of Prester John, the mythical villain in the dreamlike Sea of Dust.
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That year saw the release of Johannes Roberts' Forest of the Damned, in which Tom Savini played a mad hermit surrounded by angels cast from heaven.
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Tom Savini appeared in The Dead Matter, along with Andrew Divoff and Jim O'Rear.
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Tom Savini voiced himself on The Simpsons episode "Worst Episode Ever".
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In 2012, Tom Savini appeared as a shop teacher, Mr Callahan, in the Pittsburgh-set teen drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower, starring Logan Lerman.
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Tom Savini appeared as one of the Trackers in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
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Future projects include Tom Savini starring in the Nazi zombie film The 4th Reich directed by Shaun Robert Smith, playing the role of SS-Standartenfuhrer Oskar Dirlewanger.
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In 2009, Tom Savini announced his plan to direct a new film, Death Island, with special make-up effects by his former protege Greg Nicotero.
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On September 1,2013, Tom Savini began a crowd funding project on Indiegogo for Death Island.
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Tom Savini's plans were to begin filming by the end of 2013.
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Tom Savini briefly took part in Jerry Lawler's 2010 revival of the Memphis Wrestling pro wrestling television show.
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In 2018, Savini announced via his Instagram that he would be directing a horror web series, in collaboration with others, including Tina Romero, George A Romero's daughter.
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In May 2019, Slipknot lead singer and frontman Corey Taylor said in an interview that Tom Savini worked to produce and create his new masks for the upcoming We Are Not Your Kind album and subsequent tour cycles.
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Around the same time, Tom Savini was approached by wrestler Bray Wyatt to design the mask for his brand new "Fiend" character.
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Tom Savini is happy to say that he refers offers he receives for movie make-up effects projects to his students and graduates of his school as well.
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Tom Savini is the author of several books on special effects including Grande Illusions I and II which detail the production and mechanical workings of many of his famous film effects.
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Tom Savini is associated with other books in the horror genre including Book of the Dead and Horror 101 for which he wrote the foreword.
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Tom Savini has appeared in public demonstrating his effects, including appearances in the 1980s on Late Night With David Letterman in which he demonstrated such effects as "fire gel" and a gunshot to the head on Letterman himself.