Biography of Tom Cook
Writer/Author and Co-Producer

 Tom Cook is one of the most successful and respected writers in the film/TV industry.  When one looks at his list of credits it is very impressive—starting with a film he wrote about nuclear energy and safety—a topic that is still very much on everyone’s mind—The China Syndrome.  The China Syndrome was nominated for an Academy Award, also a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe.  Cook won for Writer of the Best Original Screenplay for The China Syndrome along with an American Movie Award. 

His television credits and awards are just as impressive.  His The Tuskegee Airmen was nominated for an Emmy award in 1996 for the Best Written Made-for-TV Movie.  It also won the Cable Ace Award for Best written Original Movie of the Week.

Cook’s film Nightbreaker won a Writers Guild Award for the Best Original Teleplay and First Prize at the Houston Film Festival.  Nightbreaker also won Best Foreign Film at the Bulgarian Film Festival in Europe.

He is one of Hollywood’s most prolific writers in feature films, television mini-series, made for TV movies and episodic TV.  His mini-series and made for TV credits include; In the Line of Duty; The Switch; Texas Justice; Forgotten Evil; High Noon;  High Desert Kill; Out of the Darkness; Attack on Fear; Red Flag-the Ultimate Game; We’re Fighting Back; Scared Straight-Another Story. His TV episodes include; Baretta; The Paper Chase; Project UFO and Airwolf.

Active in the industry Cook has served on the Board of Directors for the Writers Guild of America 95-97; Committee on the Professional Status of Writers from 1994 to the present; Board of Directors for the Writers Guild Foundation from 97 to present; WGA TV council from 99 to present; Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, Writers Committee from 2000 to the present and the Writers Guild Industry Pension and Health Fund Board of Directors from 2005 to present.

Another of his passions is writing for live theater.  In the spring of 2008 Cook’s stage play Ravensridge premiered in Los Angeles to rave reviews in the Los Angeles Times and Variety Magazine.  He will soon premier another work for the stage entitled Everything But. 

Currently he is developing a feature-film based on the life of Sasha Litvinenko the poisoned Russian KGB agent.  United Producers Entertainment has licensed and is developing Tom’s feature-film script Ancestor.  His script is an important statement on traditions and science that will be benchmark in modern science. For more information go to Internet Movie Data Base, IMDB.com.