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Tom DeSimone

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Writer/ director, Tom DeSimone, was born in Cambridge MA. He received his bachelor's degree in directing from Emerson College in Boston and then headed West to UCLA where he earned a master's degree in Motion Picture production. Following graduation Tom worked briefly as Post Production Supervisor at
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After signing with Creative Artist's Agency he moved from features to television where the remainder of his career has been in directing episodic television for various production studios and networks including. Lorimar, Warner Bros, MGM Television, CBS Television, and USA Network. Tom also did a
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His awards include a Golden Eagle award/Cine Film Festival for his short, WOODEN LULLABY; a UCLA Film School scholarship for his film, THE GAME, and a Lifetime Achievement award in the 2005 Gayvn Hall of Fame. Tom now resides in Palm Springs.
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Under Hand in Hand Films, DiSimone worked behind the scenes as a camera man on three of the gay porn studio's releases and directed some of his own, including
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one-year stint in Mexico City where he directed all 120 episodes of the Telenova, ACAPULCO BAY, for Televisa Studios.
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in the late 1960s, including several gay pornography films under the pseudonym Lancer Brooks. His 1970 film
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was awarded the Mama Cass award in the "Wet Dream Film Festival" in Amsterdam that same year.
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Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana
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was the first X-rated gay feature film to include dialogue and a plot while his 1971 effort
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Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video
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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986
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is send-up of women's prison films starring Wendy O Williams,
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Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies
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DeSimone began his career as a director of numerous
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Index

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Emerson College
University of California, Los Angeles
Chatterbox
Hell Night
The Concrete Jungle
Hand in Hand Films
adult films
Chatterbox
Hell Night
Reform School Girls
The Concrete Jungle
Freddy's Nightmares
Dark Justice
Chatterbox
Hell Night
The Concrete Jungle
Savage Streets
Reform School Girls
Angel III: The Final Chapter
Freddy's Nightmares
Super Force
Swamp Thing
Dark Justice
The Big Easy
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
She Spies
Murray 1998
"All the Good Boys • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine"
"BJ's TOM DESIMONE page; great gay film maker"

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