Tracy Tormé

American screenwriter
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican screenwriter
PlacesUnited States of America
isScreenwriter Film producer
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth12 April 1959, Los Angeles, USA
Age65 years
Star signAries
The details

Biography

Tracy Tormé (born April 12, 1959) is an American screenwriter and television producer, known for his work on the science fiction series Sliders and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the film Fire in the Sky.

Early life

Tormé was born on April 12, 1959, in Los Angeles, California to Arlene Miles and singer Mel Tormé.

Career

In the early 1980s, Tormé was a writer for Saturday Night Live.

In the late 1980s, he was a story editor and writer in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but left early in the second season over creative differences.

In 1991 with Barry Oringer, Tormé wrote the screenplay for the miniseries Intruders which ran on CBS in May 1992. Intruders was based on the book of the same name by Budd Hopkins.

Tormé wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Fire in the Sky based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience.

With Robert K. Weiss he co-created the television series Sliders, which ran 1995–2000.

Other series he has written for include Odyssey 5 and Carnivàle.

Accolades

Tormé was nominated for the 1993 Saturn Award for Best Writing for his screenplay on the film Fire in the Sky.

Personal life

Tormé has siblings Steve, Melissa, Daisy, and James Tormé, and step-siblings Carrie Tormé and Kurt Goldsmith.

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