Thomas Hamilton

Director · Cast · Writer

Born

May 15, 1965 · Scotland, UK

Birth name

Thomas Docherty

Thomas Hamilton is the writer and director of "Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn" (2015) & the upcoming "Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster" (2021) (the latter in collaboration with Ron MacCloskey) Prior to entering film making Hamilton was an alternative musician and video producer. Credited as Thomas Frenzi, he wrote music for the independently produced feature, "Virtues of Knature" (Kaprice Kea) (1987), shorts "Tell Me No Lies" (Neil Hunter) (1992), "Honeymoon Beyond" (Kaprice Kea) (1993) and "Demon Soul" (Elisar Cabrera) (1995) and pulled double duty, directing and creating music for "The Moon Gives Life" (1992) and "Ill Met" (1993). In the 1990's Hamilton produced corporate training films before returning to writing and direction with the psychological horror film "Fate" (2004), a version of which screened at Cannes Short Film Corner. August 2015 - Hamilton was working on the companion piece to "Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn" - "The Mystery of Flight 777" (yet to be released).