- Born
- Died
- Birth nameThomas Ernest Wilde
- Nicknames
- Tommy
- Big Daddy
- Tom Wilde or "Big Daddy", as he was known to his drama students, adored the theater. He acted in plays in San Francisco and The Music Circus and various commercials in Sacramento. After his short television career in Hollywood, he found the "dream job" of his life and became a drama teacher at Encina High School in Sacramento,CA., producing and directing classic plays such as "Guys and Dolls", "1776", which he starred, in and "Bye Bye Birdie". He lived in Sacramento, California most of his life with his adoring wife, Neva Wilde and their two children. He is the grandfather of actor/producer Jennifer Bushnell.- IMDb mini biography by: jennifer bushnell (granddaughter)
- He is the grandfather of actress/producer Jennifer Bushnell.
- Was the first Marlboro Man.
- Played bridge with Omar Sharif in Sacramento, California.
- Was in a play in San Francisco with Lloyd Bridges.
- Back in the early 1970's, one of Tom Wilde's drama students (student Ward Kendall) would go on to publish a novel with Counter-Currents Publishing that The New York Times [Ian Allen, - July 30, 2018] would cite as having played a contributing role in the election of President Donald Trump in 2016.
- It was fun working on a set with Alfred Hitchcock. After the takes he would fall back laughing at his own jokes.
- I left Hollywood when I got in a plane crash and crushed my throat, if I had stayed I would have been a star.
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