Biography: Tom Aldredge was born Thomas Ernest Aldredge on February 28, 1928 in Dayton, Ohio to Lucienne Juliet and William Joseph Aldredge. He trained at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. He performed often with the New York Shakespeare Festival from the 1950s to the 1980s. He performed with Premise, a Greenwich Village improvisational troupe, in the 1960s. He married costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge.

Film/TV Credits: Film credits include: "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Rounders," "Cold Mountain," "Intolerable Cruelty," "What About Bob?," "Message in a Bottle," "All the King's Men," "My Sassy Girl," "Lawn Dogs," and "The Adventures of Huck Finn." Television credits include: "The Sopranos," "Law & Order," "Boardwalk Empire," "Damages," "Third Watch," "Great Performances," "New York News," and "Now and Again."

Other Awards: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming for "The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People" in 1978.

Trivia:
In the 1940s, he attended the University of Dayton as a pre-law student.