Tom Lazarus's first career was in entertainment advertising where he created advertising for the major motion picture studios. He also designed album covers and was nominated for a Grammy. His second career was writing, directing and producing educational and business films. He won more than two dozen international film festival honors including Best Educational Film of the Year at the San Francisco Film Festival. He was nominated for a CLIO for directing a Fair House Public Service TV spot.

Then, Mr. Lazarus started writing for television, writing seven Movies of the Week including HEAR NO EVIL and THE ORDEAL OF BILL CARNEY and working as a staff writer/producer for nine network series such as HUNTER, JAKE AND THE FATMAN, STARMAN, STINGRAY, MIKE HAMMER and WAR OF THE WORLDS.

His feature credits include the original story for George Burns/Brooke Shields motion picture JUST YOU AND ME, KID, the script for the Swedish made REVENGE AND JUSTICE and the #1 film in America upon its release, STIGMATA. He has had nine feature films made from his original screenplays.

Tom Lazarus has directed five feature films: MOVIES KILL, WORD OF MOUTH, HOUSE OF LOVE, VOYEUR CONFESSIONS, and EXHIBITIONIST FILES.

Mr. Lazarus has just finished writing, directing and executive producing the fifth season of the cable TV hit 7 LIVES XPOSED.

In 2001, St. Martins Press published Mr. Lazarus's book SECRETS OF FILM WRITING. Presently, Tom is finishing his novel HOUSE OF PAIN.

Mr. Lazarus has taught screenwriting and advanced screenwriting for the last twelve years at UCLA Extension.He has also taught undergraduate screenwriting at the University of California Santa Barbara and a Master Class at California State University Northridge.His grandfather, Paul Lazarus, was a motion picture pioneer working for Vitagraph in 1916 and United Artists in 1919. His father, Paul Lazarus, Jr., worked for both Columbia Pictures and Warner Brothers as Vice President in charge of Advertising and Publicity.

Tom lives in Los Angeles with his wife writer Stevie Stern Lazarus and the two sweetest dogs in the world Ruby and Morgan.