Tom McDermott

Tom McDermott was born on Jul 20, 1912 in USA. Tom McDermott's big-screen debut came with Captain Video and His Video Rangers - Season 2 directed by Steve Previn in 1950, strarring Permes Lykos / Anzo, king of the Pharol empire. Tom McDermott is known for Ghostbusters directed by Ivan Reitman, Bill Murray stars as Dr. Peter Venkman and Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz. The upcoming new movie Tom McDermott plays is The Substance of Fire which will be released on Mar 14, 1997.

Hardworking actor with a 64-year career on and off Broadway, in television and films. His characterization of Permes Lykos on "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" is considered to be a precursor to the Mr. Spock role as an alien on the later "Star Trek" television and film series.He had no formal training but began acting in a Chicago high school in "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", achieving a foamy-mouthed transformation by slipping Alka-Seltzer tablets into his mouth. He was a very active member of Actors Equity and married his actress-girlfriend so they could share living quarters during a touring stage play with propriety. Though that play closed after two performances, the marriage lasted through 61 years.His stage roles included "Three Sisters" with Katharine Cornell and Judith Anderson, "The Best Man" with Melvyn Douglas, "Macbeth", and as the Secretary of State in Larry Gelbart's 1989 staging of "Mastergate", and he was Captain Vere in the first staging of "Billy Budd".