Biography

Call 1.800.966.1380 to contact Tom Wilson booking agent, publicist, manager, pr firm, representative and management company if you would like to hire Tom Wilson for a speaker appearance, autograph signing, endorsement deal or corporate event. Here you can find speaker fees, booking fees, costs, availability and schedule information. Tom Wilson's career on stage began in the theatre, studying in New York, which led down an unusual path of starvation and opportunity to the stages of comedy clubs, where he performed for many years.

After moving to Los Angeles, he was accepted as a regular at the world famous “Comedy Store”, performing with the “Comedy Store Players”, improvising onstage with Richard Pryor, Robin Williams and Jim Carrey when he was 21 years old. He was soon cast in episodic television shows, commercials and eventually was cast as “Biff”, Michael J. Fox’s beefy nemesis in the classic Back To The Future trilogy of films.

A long string of movie roles followed with the opportunity to work with legendary directors such as John Frankenheimer, Stuart Rosenberg, Taylor Hackford, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Steve Oedekerk. He has appeared as a recurring guest star on the television series Ed, Do Over, Freaks and Geeks, Titus, Fired Up, and Maggie, as well as Boston Public, Two and a Half Men and many, many others.

As a writer, Tom Wilson's fiction has been published in the literary magazines Amelia, West Word, Ipsissima verba and nonfiction and editorial writing have appeared in The New Yorker, Envoy, Us, P.C. Games and on the PBS.com website as part of the Frontline series. He’s been a development writer under contract at Disney, Universal, and Film Roman studios and his writing recently appeared in the anthology, Sacred Passages.

Tom Wilson’s paintings can best be described by the reactions they receive — a moment of joyful surprise and happy longing. After studying fine art photography at U.C.L.A., he followed the path from photography to mixed media works until he finally found a home in color and canvas. Tom studied drawing and painting at the Art Academy of Los Angeles as well as the California Art Institute followed by extensive study in painting with the noted abstract painter Rene Amitai and renowned California impressionist Arthur Bjorn Egeli.

His career in the arts began on the stage as an actor, comedian, and writer. He has shared the stage and screen with a who’s who of the entertainment industry, making hundreds of television appearances around the world, including The Today Show, Good Morning, America, CBS This Morning, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning Great Britain and Tonight Live in Australia, as well as a televised royal premiere for the benefit of the Prince’s Trust, where he was received and congratulated by Princess Diana herself.