Thom Mount

Thomas Henderson Mount (born May 26, 1948) is an American film producer who was formerly the president of Universal Pictures.¹² Born in Durham, North Carolina, he studied art at Bard College where he received a BA. He received an MFA in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

Starting as assistant to Universal executive vice president Ned Tanen in 1972, Mount rose quickly through the ranks to become president of the studio in 1975. During his time as Universal president, Mount developed, supervised, financed and distributed over 200 features. After leaving the studio in late 1984,³ Mount founded his own company, the Mount Company, which produced acclaimed films like Bull Durham, Tequila Sunrise, Frantic, Natural Born Killers, Can't Buy Me Love, The Indian Runner, Night Falls on Manhattan, and Death and the Maiden (which he first produced on stage in London's West End and on Broadway).⁴ Although the Mount Company had outgoing agreements with various film studios like Warner Bros., Tri-Star Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios and Lorimar Motion Pictures, on June 11, 1986, the Mount Company received a three-year, two-picture-a-year, non-exclusive deal with Columbia Pictures, in which Mount would develop projects for the studio.⁵

Mount is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Film School, two-term president of the Producers Guild of America,⁶ and has been a consultant for RKO Pictures. He has been an active Academy member since 1977.

Frequently rumored to be the model for Robert Altman's The Player, Mount said it was "not me. I've never murdered a screenwriter."⁷

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

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