Tommy Lee Wallace

Tommy Lee Wallace is an American film director and screenwriter who built his career in the horror genre, working most often alongside John Carpenter. Born in Somerset, Kentucky, and raised in Bowling Green, he studied design at Ohio University and film production at the University of Southern California, where he began collaborating with Carpenter on the low-budget science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974), his first credit as art director. He also worked as art director and sound effects editor on Assault on Precinct 13, then as production designer and co-editor, with Charles Bornstein, of Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980), also appearing briefly on screen in both. He wrote and directed Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), wrote Amityville II: The Possession, and directed Fright Night Part 2 (1988) and the 1990 television miniseries of Stephen King's It, later directing episodes of Max Headroom, The Twilight Zone and Baywatch.