1. Thomas Lester Tryon was an American actor and novelist.
29 Facts About Tom Tryon
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Tom Tryon later turned to the writing of prose fiction and screenplays, and wrote several successful science fiction, horror and mystery novels as Thomas Tom Tryon.
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Tom Tryon served in the United States Navy in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946 during and after World War II.
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Tom Tryon began his acting career appearing on stage in Wish You Were Here, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Richard III.
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Tom Tryon next found work in TV, appearing in The Way of the World with Gloria Lewis, Leora Thatcher, and Sydney Smith.
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Tom Tryon guest-starred in 1955 as Antoine De Mores in the two-part episode "King of the Dakotas" of NBC's western anthology series Frontier.
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Tom Tryon was signed to a long-term contract to Paramount in 1955.
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Tom Tryon was top billed in a low budget war film at Allied Artists, Screaming Eagles, then supported Charlton Heston and Anne Baxter in Three Violent People at Paramount.
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Tom Tryon was announced for, but did not end up appearing in, Short Cut to Hell.
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Tom Tryon had a support role in RKO's The Unholy Wife billed after Rod Steiger and Diana Dors.
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Tom Tryon had the lead in a low budget science fiction film at Paramount, I Married a Monster from Outer Space.
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Tom Tryon's work was mostly in TV, appearing in numerous roles such as Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, Playhouse 90, Zane Grey Theater, Studio 57, Matinee Theatre, and Lux Video Theatre, The Restless Gun with John Payne, General Electric Theater, The Millionaire, and The Big Valley, that he was a guest star in the 1966 episode "The Midas Man".
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Tom Tryon appeared in the lead in "The Mark Hanford Story" on NBC's Wagon Train with Onslow Stevens and Kathleen Crowley.
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Tom Tryon played Texas John Slaughter in a series of TV movies for Disney which ran from 1958 to 1961.
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Tom Tryon was considered but eventually passed over for the role of Janet Leigh's lover, Sam Loomis, in the classic thriller Psycho ; the role went to John Gavin.
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Tom Tryon starred in The Story of Ruth at 20th Century Fox.
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Tom Tryon was one of many names in The Longest Day at Fox.
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In 1962, Tom Tryon was cast to play the role of Stephen Burkett in the unfinished Marilyn Monroe-Dean Martin comedy film, Something's Got to Give, directed by George Cukor, but lost that role after Monroe was fired from the movie; the picture was remade with Doris Day and James Garner as Move Over, Darling with Chuck Connors playing Tom Tryon's part.
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Tom Tryon later guest-starred on Kraft Suspense Theatre and then was reunited with Preminger in In Harm's Way starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.
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Tom Tryon was part of a live television performance of The Fall of the House of Usher.
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Disillusioned with acting, Tom Tryon retired from the profession in 1969 and began writing horror and mystery novels.
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Tom Tryon moved into film financing, serving as executive producer of Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun.
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Tom Tryon adapted his novel into a film released the following year that starred Diana Muldaur, Uta Hagen, and John Ritter.
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Tom Tryon sold the film rights to Universal to make four films based on the novellas.
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In 1955, Tryon married Ann L Noyes, the daughter of stockbroker Joseph Leo Lilienthal and his wife, the former Edna Arnstein.
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Tom Tryon was the former wife of Thomas Ewing Noyes, with whom she had been a theatrical producer.
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Tom Tryon said that she committed suicide and that he kept a photograph of her in his apartment.
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From 1973 to 1977, Tom Tryon was in a relationship with porn actor Casey Donovan.
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Tom Tryon died on September 4,1991, at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California.