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name: "Tom Maddox"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-maddox"
fi1m_id: "tom-maddox"
tmdb_id: 1235788
roles: ["Writer"]
died: "18 October 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:43:08.275003+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tom Maddox

## Identity

Tom Maddox

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-maddox
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-maddox
- **TMDB ID:** 1235788
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1235788

Writer. Born in Beckley, West Virginia, USA. Died 18 October 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Died:** 18 October 2022
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1235788

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The X-Files*](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tom Maddox (1945–2022) was an American science fiction writer and academic. He published short stories from the mid-1980s onwards and was associated with the early cyberpunk movement. He served as a professor of literary studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Maddox co-wrote two episodes of the television series *The X-Files* with William Gibson: "Kill Switch" (1998) and "First Person Shooter" (2000). His only novel, *Halo*, was published in 1991. He originated the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (ICE).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, locusmag.com, sf-encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The X-Files* (1993), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The X-Files* (1993), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *Two Tragic Blondes - Marilyn Monroe And Jean Harlow* (1989), Director

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