Acting

Tom Davis

Born 13 August 1952 · St. Paul, Minnesota, USA · Died 19 July 2012 at 59

Tom Davis was a four-time Emmy Award winning writer from twelve seasons at Saturday Night Live. He wrote/co-wrote sketches for the series including Theodoric of York, The Coneheads (inspired by his Easter Island vacation with Dan Aykroyd on LSD), The Continental, and Nick the Lounge Singer. He wrote a memoir Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss and co-authored Rhoney Gissen Stanley's memoir Owsley and Me: My LSD Family. He also collaborated with Jerry Garcia on a screenplay adaptation of The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. that was never produced. He was half the comedy team of Franken & Davis from high school in 1968 until he & Al broke up in 1990.