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Tom Blomquist is an American author, educator and filmmaker who has been associated with some of television’s most popular entertainment programs. Among his screen credits are Catherine Marshall’s Christy, Farscape , Quantum Leap , The A-Team , Swamp Thing , Freddy’s Nightmares: A Nightmare On Elm Street , Riptide , Stingray , Walker Texas Ranger , Hardcastle and McCormick , Hunter , Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance , Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , Dellaventura , Twice In A Lifetime , Sheena , Fame L.A. , Werewolf , The White Shadow , and series pilots for CBS , NBC , and the Pax Network. Under the pseudonym Kathryn Ann Thomas (a blend of his name with those of his daughter and wife) he also created the story and screenplay for the Dino De Laurentiis feature film production Dracula’s Widow starring Sylvia Kristel, Lenny Von Dohlen , and Josef Sommer.

Blomquist began his career as a Creative Executive at Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising in Chicago, where his duties on the Emmy winning Hallmark Hall of Fame movie specials gave him the opportunity to work in Europe with such luminaries as Orson Wells and Lee Remick on a remake of Kaufman and Hart’s The Man Who Came To Dinner and Vittorio DeSica on Paul Gallico ’s The Small Miracle. He later held similar positions for studio executive Grant Tinker at MTM Enterprises and Producer-Actress Diane Baker at Artemis/Orion Productions, and served as an NBC Staff Producer on Tom Snyder ’s classic late-night Tomorrow Show.

Legendary producer Stephen J. Cannell offered him a multi-year contract, which led to producing roles on the hit series The A-Team, Riptide, and Stingray and script assignments for Hardcastle and McCormick and Hunter. Blomquist eventually moved to Universal Studios as Executive Producer, Writer, and Director of the live action USA Network series Swamp Thing, which was based on the darkly themed graphic novels and cult-classic Wes Craven theatrical motion picture.

Returning to MTM, Blomquist became Supervising Producer and Writer of the CBS drama series Christy starring Kellie Martin, LeVar Burton , Tess Harper , and Tyne Daly. CBS executives subsequently enlisted him as Executive Producer of the action drama Walker Texas Ranger starring Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard , and Sheree Wilson.

In 2000 the new Pax Network responded to strong fan interest in the Christy novel and earlier series by commissioning the television movie Christy: Return To Cutter Gap and a sequel mini-series Christy: Choices of the Heart to resolve storylines established by Catherine Marshall’s best-selling book and previous CBS adaptation. Blomquist, who had served as Supervising Producer of the CBS series, wrote the screenplay for the movie while serving as Executive Producer and Second Unit Director of both Pax productions, which starred Diane Ladd and Lauren Lee Smith and several original CBS cast members.

Soon afterward Blomquist accepted the opportunity to pursue his lifelong interest in teaching with adjunct faculty positions at the American Film Institute Conservatory, University of California Los Angeles , University of Southern California , Chapman University , and California State University Long Beach. He became a tenured Professor of Film and Television Production at Long Beach, where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus. He additionally served as Visiting Artist at El Camino College in Torrance, California and the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany.

While working as a college educator Blomquist continued his creative output through a variety of projects; including directing music videos for Warner-Chappell Music, Walk On and I Would Die For That , starring ACM Best New Female Artist Kellie Coffey ); writing and directing a feature length documentary about Ms. Coffey’s music career Kellie Coffey: I’m Still Here ; directing the award-winning stage play Einstein! ; and directing Whoa! , a comedy pilot for Richter Scale Media starring Academy Award Nominee Linda Blair , Emmy winner Leslie Jordan , Streamy Award winner Mark Gantt , and Grammy winner Dawnn Lewis . He received International Gold CINDY Awards and Special Achievement in Directing honors from Cinema In Industry for Whoa! as well as Missed Communication , a corporate communications video for Skaz Productions. He also served as Production Consultant for two motion pictures, Blood Pageant and Foe.

In 2013 Blomquist co-authored with Maria Viera, Ph.D. the textbook Eye of the Storm: Directing for Film, Television & Emerging Media for Kendall Hunt Publishers, which was selected as recommended reading by the prestigious Disney Studios/ABC DGA Directors Program. His first novel, the genre-bending forensic mystery Silent Partners was published by Lindstrom Legacy Publishing (2018).

Author Website: www.tomblomquist.com Television Interview (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUiCguywaSI&t=7s