Tracy Tormé | |
Birth Date: | 12 April 1959 |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Death Place: | Escondido, California, U.S. |
Mother: | Arlene Miles |
Tracy Tormé (April 12, 1959 – January 4, 2024) was an American screenwriter and television producer, known for his work on the science fiction series Sliders and , and the film Fire in the Sky.
Tracy Tormé was born on April 12, 1959, in Los Angeles, to Arlene Miles and singer Mel Tormé.[1] He was educated at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University, where he studied film.[1]
Tormé began his career in the 1970s, as a writer on SCTV.[1] From 1982 to 1983, he was a writer for Saturday Night Live.[1] Later in the decade, he was a story editor and writer on the first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but left over creative differences.[1]
In 1991 with Barry Oringer, Tormé wrote the screenplay for the miniseries Intruders which ran on CBS in May 1992.[2] Intruders was based on the book of the same name by Budd Hopkins.[3]
With Robert K. Weiss he co-created the television series Sliders, which ran 1995–2000.[1] Other series he wrote for included Odyssey 5 and Carnivàle.[1]
Tormé wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Fire in the Sky based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience.[4] He was credited as a co-producer on the 2007 film I Am Legend, and wrote an early treatment for the project.[1]
Tormé was nominated for the 1993 Saturn Award for Best Writing for his screenplay on the film Fire in the Sky.[5]
Tormé had siblings Steve, Melissa, Daisy, and James Tormé, and step-siblings Carrie Tormé and Kurt Goldsmith.[6] He was married twice.[1]
Tormé died of complications from diabetes in Escondido, California, on January 4, 2024, at the age of 64.[1]