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name: "Tommy Tune"
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born: "28 February 1939"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T05:20:02.518089+00:00"
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# Tommy Tune

Actor. Born 28 February 1939 in Wichita Falls.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 February 1939, Wichita Falls
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tune, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7819952, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876585/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587018

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Hello, Dolly!*](https://film.one/film/hello-dolly.md) (56)

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## Biography

Tommy Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer and choreographer. Born Thomas James Tune on 28 February 1939 in Wichita Falls, Texas, he trained at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a BFA in drama in 1962, and at the University of Houston, where he received an MFA in directing.

He made his Broadway debut in 1965 in the chorus of *Baker Street*. His film credits include the role of Ambrose Kemper in *Hello, Dolly!* (1969) and Tommy in *The Boy Friend* (1971); he later appeared as Argyle Austero in the television series *Arrested Development*. Tune is primarily known for his work on Broadway, where he has won ten Tony Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, as well as the National Medal of Arts.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hello, Dolly!* (1969), Fi1m 56, as Ambrose Kemper — [page](https://film.one/film/hello-dolly.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Arrested Development* (2003), series, as Argyle — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)
- *Broadway's Lost Treasures* (2003), as Host (segment "Dancin'") / Billy Buck Chandler (segment "My One and Only")
- *The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue* (1993), Stage Director, Choreographer
- *Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden* (1976), as Jack
- *The Boy Friend* (1971), as Tommy
- *Nanny and the Professor* (1970), series, as Carnival Barker, Ernie Lewis
- *Hello, Dolly!* (1969), as Ambrose Kemper — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/hello-dolly.md)

## Gallery

- ![Tommy Tune](https://film.one/media/person/1243828/gallery-ab6172240054.jpg) Tommy Tune — ICM-International Creative Management (management), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Tommy_Tune_1977.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tommy Tune, directing "Cloud 9" (1982)](https://film.one/media/person/1243828/gallery-42e47bbfdea2.jpg) Tommy Tune, directing "Cloud 9" (1982) — Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Tommy_Tune%2C_directing_cloud_9.jpg/1280px-Tommy_Tune%2C_directing_cloud_9.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tommy Tune](https://film.one/media/person/1243828/gallery-12386f4e4404.jpg) Tommy Tune — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won, 3 nominated

- Capezio Dance Award 2012: Capezio Dance Award (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1991: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1990: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (won)
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical 1983: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1983: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1982: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (won)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1980: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominated)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1979: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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