Tom Huckabee
Tom Huckabee | |
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| Born | Tom Huckabee September 2, 1955 Ft. Worth, Texas, USA |
| Died | January 28, 2022 (aged 66) Ft. Worth, Texas, USA |
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| Years active | 1973–2022 |
| Spouses | Barbara Cohen
(m. 1983; died 2006) |
Tom Huckabee (2 September 1955 – 28 January 2022) was an American film director, producer, fine artist, and screenwriter. Huckabee was also a musician and songwriter in the early US hard punk music scene of the 70s and 80s, primarily through his Austin Texas band known as the Huns, and then later via the band Re*Cords (Reversible Cords), a group once called, "an anarchic quartet, given to street performances and occasional scrapes with the law".
Tom Huckabee is best known for his longtime association with US actor Bill Paxton, both in personal and professional capacities, most notably from Huckabee's "third phase" collaboration with Paxton's first film, the 1983 science fiction movie Taking Tiger Mountain.
Tom Huckabee once stated that he and Bill Paxton together, as filmmakers, "climbed the ladder one rung at a time." Tom Huckabee also said of Paxton, "He was the funniest person I ever knew."