- Born
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- Birth nameThomas H. Towers
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Tom Towers was born on January 23, 1913 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956). He died on September 9, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Like most of the people who appeared in the 1956 United Artists documentary movie, "UFO," he was not a professional actor and never acted again. While movie production took place, he was granted a few weeks away from his position as aviation reporter for the old Los Angeles Examiner. He had already firmly established his press credentials as a newspaper writer, and in later years (1970s and perhaps early eighties) served as executive assistant to the general manager at what is now LAX Airport. Towers, who died in approximately 1991, had been a captain in Army Air Force intelligence during WW II. His appearance as the lead actor in "UFO" came about both because he personally knew Albert M. Chop, whom he portrayed in the film, and producer Clarence Greene had met Towers previously. Some confusion has ensued over the years because some publications mistakenly listed Tom Towers as Tom Powers, a professional actor with numerous film credits of his own.
- Enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at Santa Ana Army Air Base on 14 December 1942.
- He was a senior member of the Aviation Writers Association.
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