Tom DeSimone

Tom DeSimone born 1939 is an American director writer producer and editor perhaps best known for directing the cult films Chatterbox 1977 Hell Night 1981 and The Concrete Jungle 1982 DeSimone was born in Cambridge Massachusetts and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College He relocated to Los Angeles California in the 1960s and enrolled at the University of Southern California to earn a Masters degree in filmmaking DeSimone began his career as a director of numerous adult films in the late 1960s including several gay pornography films under the pseudonym Lancer Brooks He would later become known for directing the cult film Chatterbox 1977 produced by Bruce Cohn Curtis Curtis would then hire him to direct his subsequent film the cult slasher film Hell Night 1981 He also directed the films The Concrete Jungle and Reform School Girls and the television series Freddys Nightmares and Dark Justice From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia