Tom Barnes

Hi my name is Tom Barnes and I'm an actor, writer and hurricane hunter.

I was born in Ft. Myers, Florida, and brought up in central Georgia where I got hooked on Civil War stories. I dutifully wrote those stories into my war journal and got my first taste for writing.

At age 17 I joined the Navy, earned my Aircrew Wings and spent a season with the Hurricane Hunters.

Following my hitch in the Navy I returned to school, studied English literature at Middle Georgia College and drama at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. I did dozens of plays ranging from Our Town and Uncle Vanya to My Three Angels and The Tender Trap.

Then I moved to New York for Off Broadway, summer stock and worked with Bert Lahr in Harvey, Vera Miles in The Country Girl and June Lockhart in Forty Carats, Sweet Bird of Youth and Edie Adams. Film The Greatest Gift with Glen Ford and Julie Harris, Good Bye Charlie with Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, and Walter Matthau also Walter Matthau in Tallahassee 7000. Soaps The Edge of Night, all my Children and General Hospital.

PBS hired me to do the TV Series, "Georgia's Heritage" - as writer and host, narrator.

During our last segment of Heritage I had my first brush with the legendary Doc Holliday.

Most of my writing has a touch of history, even my blogs where I write stories about everything from the Algonquin Round Table and the characters that gathhered there for lunch during the 1920's, to the growth of the movie industry and horse racing's Triple Crown. Then going back to my season with the Hurricane Hunters I blog about hurricanes and the Bermuda Triangle.