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Tommy Gormley is a Scottish film director and producer. He is known for his work on the genres of action, drama and science fiction. Gormley has produced or served as assistant director on films such as Star Trek and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He produced or co-produced a number of TV series, including Fringe.
Tommy Gormley was born on 3 May 1968 in Scotland, UK. He is an assistant director and producer, known for Super 8 (2011), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Wonder Woman (2017). He has been married to Sarah Purser since 7 October 1995. They have two children.
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Thomas "Tommy" Gormley (born 3 May 1968; age 56) is a Scottish assistant director and producer who worked as first assistant director for J.J. Abrams on Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. He was also credited as co-producer on Into Darkness.
A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Gormley began his career as an assistant director on British made-for-TV movies and independent films. His first major studio film was The Browning Version (1994), which was distributed in the United States by Paramount Pictures. The first film he worked on as first assistant director was 1996's The Leading Man, whose cast included David Warner.
His first American production (although it was filmed in Ireland) was The Boxer (1997). He then worked as 1st AD on the British-made, Academy Award-nominated 1998 historical drama Elizabeth. His subsequent 1st AD credits include the films Angela's Ashes (1999), The Tailor of Panama (2001), Paramount's The Four Feathers (2002), Veronica Guerin (2003), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
Gormley was Jonathan Frakes' 1st AD on Thunderbirds. He was also 1st AD on the acclaimed HBO series Rome, for which he shared a Director's Guild of America (DGA) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a primetime dramatic series. Gormley's other credits as 1st AD include Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Inkheart (2008), 2012 (2009, with John Billingsley, Osric Chau, and Stephen McHattie), and John Carter (2012). He was also 1st AD for the second unit of The Golden Compass (2007).
Gormley has worked with J.J. Abrams on a large number of projects. He served as first assistant director to Abrams on Mission: Impossible III (2006, co-starring Simon Pegg, written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and photographed by Dan Mindel), Super 8 (2011, with Bruce Greenwood and Michael Giacchino), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, with Simon Pegg, Greg Grunberg, and Gerald W. Abrams), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, with Greg Grunberg). He also worked as co-producer on Super 8 and The Force Awakens and as executive producer on The Rise of Skywalker.
Gormley also directed a 2012 episode of Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci's science fiction series Fringe, starring John Noble. This is his only directing credit to date. Gormley is the owner of the production company Little White Rose Films Inc.
Feb 23, 2013 · Tommy Gormley has worked as first assistant director on both new Star Trek movies, two Mission Impossibles and blockbusters such as 2012. But when you ask who he has most...
Tommy Gormley was born on 3 May 1968 in Scotland, UK. He is an assistant director and producer, known for Super 8 (2011), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Wonder Woman (2017). He has been married to Sarah Purser since 7 October 1995.
Tommy Gormley is the 1st assistant director for Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker.
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Tommy Gormley is known as an First Assistant Director, Co-Producer, Executive Producer, Second Unit First Assistant Director, Second Assistant Director, Director, Third Assistant Director, Assistant Director, and Production Runner.
