Thom Mount

Thomas Henderson Mount (born 26 May 1948) is an American film producer, who was formerly the President of Universal Pictures.^[1][2]

Thom Mount
Born	(1948-05-26) 26 May 1948 (age 76) United States
Occupation	Studio Executive

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he studied art at Bard College where he received a BA. He received an MFA in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

Starting as assistant to Executive VP Ned Tanen in 1972 Mount rose quickly through the MCA/Universal ranks to become Universal President in 1975 through early 1985. There he developed, supervise, financed and distributed over 200 features.

After leaving Universal in late 1984,^[3] Mount founded his own company, which produced acclaimed films like Bull Durham, Tequila Sunrise, Frantic, Natural Born Killers, Can't Buy Me Love, The Indian Runner, Night Falls on Manhattan, and Death and the Maiden, which he first produced on stage in London's West End and on Broadway.^[4] Although The Mount Company had outgoing agreements with various film studios like Warner Bros., Tri-Star Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios and Lorimar Motion Pictures, on June 11, 1986, The Mount Company received a three-year, two-picture-a-year, non-exclusive deal with Columbia Pictures, in order that Mount would develop projects for the studio.^[5]

Mount is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Film School, two-term president of the Producers Guild of America,^[6] and has been a consultant for RKO Pictures.

He has been an active Academy member since 1977.

Frequently rumored to be the model for Robert Altman's The Player, Mount said "Not me. I've never murdered a screenwriter".^[7]

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit
1985	My Man Adam	Executive producer
1986	Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling	Supervising producer
	Pirates	Executive producer
1987	Can't Buy Me Love
1988	Frantic
	Bull Durham
	Stealing Home
	Tequila Sunrise
1990	Frankenstein Unbound	Executive producer
1991	The Indian Runner	Executive producer
1994	Natural Born Killers	Executive producer
	Death and the Maiden
1996	Night Falls on Manhattan
2007	Are We Done Yet?	Supervising producer
	Have Dreams, Will Travel	Executive producer
2008	Bathory	Executive producer
2009	Chéri	Executive producer
	In Her Skin	Executive producer
TBA	Good Luck with That

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
1986	Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling	Special thanks
1991	My Own Private Idaho
2019	Animal Among Us	Very special thanks

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1988	Open Admissions		Television film
1991	Son of the Morning Star		Television film
1999	The Mark Twain Prize: Richard Pryor	Co-producer	Television special

References

1. Barbara Zheutlin; David Talbot (1978). Creative differences: profiles of Hollywood dissidents (1st ed.). Boston: South End press. pp. 145ff. ISBN 978-0-89608-043-0. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
2. Harmetz, Aljean (17 November 1983). "Film Official Dismissed". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
3. Crowe, Cameron (September 1985). "Independents: Thom and Nicolette Bret Mount". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
4. "Death and the Maiden". Playbill. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
5. "Mount Co. In 3-Year, Non-Exclusive Deal With Col For 2 Pix Annually". Variety. 11 June 1986. p. 6.
6. Madigan, Nick (29 June 1998). "Mount elected prez of Producers Guild". Variety. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
7. Neumer, Chris. "Animal House: The Movie that Changed Comedy". Stumped Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

External links

• Thom Mount at IMDb
• Thom Mount at the Internet Broadway Database
• Witchel, Alex (19 August 2007). "His Kind of Town". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2013.