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Thomas Wayne "Rock" O'Mary

Thomas Wayne "Rock" O'Mary (born December 1, 1947) is an American Amazon River explorer, illustrator, motion picture producer/director. He has received numerous awards in multiple fields and is currently working as a feature film producer under the label of Rock Wayne Organization. RWO he developes potential motion pictures as joint ventures, one film per joint venture. O'Mary began his multiple careers leaving his hometown of Pullman, Washington to begin working as a junior art director in a Palo Alto, CA. advertising agency. He gained national recognition in 1976 from the Society of Illustrators of New York for his Amazon River filming and illustrating exploration, filming in unexplored tributaries the Cayaru and Javari, previously the areas of shrunken heads and blow guns. He shared this expedition with photo journalist of San Diego Magazine Melinda Gates whom he later married. He was later recognised by the intelligence community for his work during the Nicaragua conflict leading to his receiving a Pentagon star lapel pin presented by Majority Leader Trent Lott and Sonny Montgomery, of the select committee on intelligence and one hundred Congressmen at the Longworth building in Washington D. C. in 1987. He co-produced and wrote the original screenplay for THE LAST SUPPER, 13 Men of Courage that can be seen on TBN.