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Thomas Lockyear Graeff (September 12, 1929 – December 19, 1970) was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, film editor and cinematographer. He is best known for writing, directing, producing and starring in the 1959 B-movie Teenagers from Outer Space .
The Boy From Out of This World is a documentary project about film director Tom Graeff, a stubborn dreamer struggling with inner demons and the sweet siren song of Hollywood. Best known for 1959 cult film Teenagers from Outer Space, Tom’s entire career spanned less than two decades and seven films.
The following is a very abbreviated biography of Tom Graeff and is an attempt to set the record straight on a number of Internet "urban legends" that have sprung up concerning Graeff and Teenagers from Outer Space.
Tom Graeff was born on 12 September 1929 in Ray, Arizona, USA. He was a director and editor, known for Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), The Noble Experiment (1955) and Toast to Our Brother (1951). He died on 19 December 1970 in San Diego, California, USA.
Thomas Lockyear Graeff was born on September 12, 1929, in Ray, Arizona. Only an open mine shaft and battered fortifications remain of the once booming town just south of Phoenix.
Biography and films of Tom Graeff, director and writer of 1959 sci-fi cult movie Teenagers from Outer Space. Learn about Tom and the documentary project The Boy from Out of This World.
Low-budget auteur, gay liberation pioneer, eccentric rabble rouser, religious fanatic sent to save the world—Tom Graeff was all of these. Unknown in his own lifetime and largely forgotten today, Graeff’s fascinating, doomed journey is the ultimate Hollywood story—filled with ambition, delusion, sex, scandal, hope, and failure.
