Tom Alter

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Alter
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Jun 22, 1950(1950-06-22)
Age	74
Date Of Death	September 29, 2017, Mumbai, India
Birthplace	Mussoorie
Country	India
Birth City	Uttarakhand
Horoscope	Cancer

Tom Alter Biography

Tom Alter is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on June 22, 1950 in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.

Thomas Beach Alter (22 June 1950 – 29 September 2017) was an Indian actor of American descent. He was best known for his work in Hindi cinema and Indian theatre.

As a child, Alter studied Hindi among other subjects in Mussoorie. Consequently, he came to be occasionally referred to as the “Blue-eyed saheb with impeccable Hindi.” He was educated in Mussoorie’s Woodstock School. At 18, Alter left for the U.S. for higher education and studied at Yale University for a year before returning to India upon losing interest in studies. The following year, he obtained work as a teacher at St. Thomas School, Jagadhri, in Haryana. He worked there for six months, simultaneously coaching his students in cricket. Over the next two and a half years, Alter worked several jobs, teaching for a while at Woodstock School, Mussoorie, and working at a hospital in the U.S., and returning to India before continuing to work at Jagadhri. At Jagadhri, he began to watch Hindi films. It was during this time that he saw the Hindi film Aradhana, which proved to be a turning point in his career and drifted towards a career in acting, inspired by the lead actor Rajesh Khanna. He headed to Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, where he studied acting from 1972 to 1974 under Roshan Taneja. In a 2017 interview, he recalled, “I came to Mumbai to become Rajesh Khanna; didn’t come to act on stage.”

Tom Alter Net Worth

Tom Alter is one of the richest Actor from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Alter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Mussoorie in present-day Uttarakhand, Alter was the son of American Presbyterian missionaries of English, Scottish and Swiss German ancestry and lived for years in Mumbai and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. His grandparents migrated to Madras, India from Ohio, U.S., in November 1916. From there, they moved to and settled in Lahore, in present-day Pakistan. His father was born in Sialkot. After the Partition of India, Alter’s family too split into two; his grandparents chose to stay in Pakistan while his parents moved to India. After living in Allahabad, Jabalpur and Saharanpur, in 1954 they finally settled in Rajpur, Uttarakhand, then a small town located between Dehradun and Mussoorie; Rajpur is now considered a suburb of Dehradun. Alter’s siblings are older sister Martha Chen, who teaches at Harvard University and brother John, a poet.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Tom Alter Dating?

According to our records, Tom Alter married to Carol Evans Alter. As of December 1, 2023, Tom Alter’s is not dating anyone.

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Alter has written books including The Longest Race, Rerun at Rialto, and The Best in the World. He was also a sports journalist with a special interest in cricket, a game on which he has written extensively in publications such as Sportsweek, Outlook, Cricket Talk, Sunday Observer, Firstpost, Citizen, and Debonair. He played cricket for a film industry team MCC (Match Cut Club), which includes Naseeruddin Shah, Satish Shah, Vishal Bhardwaj, Aamir Khan, Nana Patekar, Bhupinder Singh and Amarinder Sangha. He also wrote on cricket in Indian publications. In 1996, he was invited by friend Siraj Syed to Singapore, to do cricket commentary in Hindi, for Indian viewers, on the sports TV channel, ESPN. In addition to acting, Alter also ventured into direction – he directed a one-shot episode for the short-lived series Yule Love Stories in the mid-1990s – and was a sports journalist in the late 1980s to early 1990s. He has written three books, one non-fiction and two fiction. Before his sudden death, Alter had just announced his inaugural feature film as a director called Rerun at Rialto, which was based on the book written by him.

Facts & Trivia

Torsten Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Tom Alter celebrates birthday on June 22 of every year.

In the early 2000s, he played the Indian independence activist Maulana Azad in a one-man Urdu-language play.

What is the age of Tom Alter?

67 years (1950–2017)

Is Jamie Alter son of Tom Alter?

Son of Bollywood/Theatre actor Tom Alter.

Is Tom Alter alive?

September 29, 2017

Who is Tom Alter's wife?

Carol Evans Alter

Is Tom Alter Indian?

Thomas Beach Alter (22 June 1950 – 29 September 2017) was an Indian actor. He was best known for his work in Hindi cinema, and Indian theatre. In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.