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name: "Tommy Lee Wallace"
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roles: ["Editor","Production designer"]
born: "6 September 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:30:25.764885+00:00"
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# Tommy Lee Wallace

Editor and production designer. Born 6 September 1949 in Somerset, Kentucky, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor, Production designer
- **Born:** 6 September 1949, Somerset, Kentucky, USA
- **Also known as:** Thomas Lee Wallace

## Biography

Tommy Lee Wallace (also credited as Thomas Lee Wallace) is an American film director, screenwriter, editor and production designer. He began his career collaborating with John Carpenter, receiving early credits as art director on *Dark Star* (1974) and *Assault on Precinct 13* (1976).

Wallace served as production designer and co-editor (with Charles Bornstein) on Carpenter's *Halloween* (1978) and *The Fog* (1980). He later directed *Halloween III: Season of the Witch* (1982), which he also wrote, *Fright Night Part 2* (1988) and the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's *It*. Other credits include second-unit direction on *Big Trouble in Little China* (1986) and episodes of *The Twilight Zone* (1985).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Halloween* (1978), Fi1m 88, Editor, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/halloween.md)

## Also known for

- *Big Trouble in Little China* (1986), Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/big-trouble-in-little-china.md)
- *It* (1990), Director, Teleplay
- *Halloween III: Season of the Witch* (1982), Director, Screenplay
- *Baywatch* (1989), Director
- *Fright Night Part 2* (1988), Writer, Director
- *Amityville II: The Possession* (1982), Screenplay
- *The Twilight Zone* (1985), Director
- *Vampires: Los Muertos* (2002), Director, Writer

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