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Thomas Lockyear Graeff (September 12, 1929 – December 19, 1970) was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, film editor and cinematographer. He is best known for writing, directing, producing and starring in the 1959 B-movie Teenagers from Outer Space .
The Boy From Out of This World is a documentary project about film director Tom Graeff, a stubborn dreamer struggling with inner demons and the sweet siren song of Hollywood. Best known for 1959 cult film Teenagers from Outer Space, Tom’s entire career spanned less than two decades and seven films.
Low-budget auteur, gay liberation pioneer, eccentric rabble rouser, religious fanatic sent to save the world—Tom Graeff was all of these. Unknown in his own lifetime and largely forgotten today, Graeff’s fascinating, doomed journey is the ultimate Hollywood story—filled with ambition, delusion, sex, scandal, hope, and failure.
Tom Graeff was born on 12 September 1929 in Ray, Arizona, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), The Noble Experiment (1955) and Toast to Our Brother (1951). He died on 19 December 1970 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Director, Editor, Actor
- September 12, 1929
- Tom Graeff
- December 19, 1970
Tom Graeff, neglected independent filmmaker in the 1950s, is the subject of an ongoing biography project by writer and filmmaker Jim Tushinski
Thomas Lockyear Graeff was born on September 12, 1929, in Ray, Arizona. Only an open mine shaft and battered fortifications remain of the once booming town just south of Phoenix. Shortly after his birth, Tom’s father, George Aichroth Graeff, a draftsman working at the copper mine, and young mother, Grace Marie Lockyear, moved to California ...
The Boy From Out of This World is a documentary project about film director Tom Graeff, a stubborn dreamer struggling with inner demons and the sweet siren song of Hollywood. Best known for 1959 cult film Teenagers from Outer Space, Tom’s entire career spanned less than two decades and seven films. Since 2006 we’ve actively been compiling ...
