Tom Kennedy (producer)

Tom Kennedy (died 2011) was an American film trailer producer, film director, voice-over artist, author, writer and film editor, raised in the Bronx, New York City, who studied film at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. After editing the PBS children's show Big Blue Marble he moved to Los Angeles in 1977 and became a project director, editor and writer at Kaleidoscope Films, a major creator of Hollywood film trailers, where he oversaw advertising for films such as The Empire Strikes Back, The Terminator and the Star Trek films. In 1992 he became a partner and executive producer at Cimarron/Bacon/O'Brien, working on campaigns for Basic Instinct and Home Alone, and in 1997 he became senior vice president of creative advertising at MGM/UA, overseeing the James Bond franchise. He directed one feature, Time Walker, in 1982, and founded Technical Knock Out Pictures in 2000.