He's been a recurring character on many television shows, including ED, FREAKS AND GEEKS, DO OVER, TITUS, MAGGIE, FIRED UP, and been a guest star on COLD CASE, STILL STANDING, REBA, GEORGE LOPEZ, BOSTON PUBLIC, ZOEY 101, RODNEY, THE FACTS OF LIFE, and many more. He's appeared in some twenty-five feature films, including his Saturn award-winning performance in the now classic BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy, and has recently been a part of the SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS phenomena, performing many voices in the Nickelodeon series, as well as THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE. Accepted as a regular at the world famous "Comedy Store" on the Sunset Strip on his first audition, at 21 years old he became a member of the "Comedy Store Players," improvising onstage with the likes of Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, and the large group of comedy colleagues who formed the nexus of the modern comedy boom. Within a short time, he was headlining in comedy clubs up and down the east coast, and moved to Los Angeles soon after that. He's starred in comedy specials on NBC, Global Television in Canada, and on myriad cable networks, and has written and performed his one man show, "Cowboy Tommy" to critical acclaim and full houses across North America.įanatically eager to get onstage, when Broadway didn't answer the door quickly enough, he began performing stand up comedy in his teens, while studying to be an actor in New York. Internationally, he's appeared on Tonight Live in Australia, Good Morning, Great Britain, and literally hundreds of local television and radio programs around the world. We can’t wait for the next VHS auction.”įor complete results, visit Heritage Auctions.Tom Wilson is one of the premiere stand up comedians in the country, boasting appearances on The Tonight Show with both Jay Leno and Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Regis, as well as Good Morning, America, The Today Show, and CBS This Morning. “This is a new area of collecting, and it’s clear there’s a deep love for what we’re offering. “The success of this inaugural auction shows, again, the power these movies and this format hold over audiences young and old,” says Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena. Based on everything I've seen today, VHS and home media have a bright future, and Heritage is just getting started.” A few years ago, sealed VHS collectors were outliers in the collecting community, so it really is something to see it grow and attract enough new collectors to warrant a standalone auction at a major auction house. “VHS collectors have never gone away, but interest in sealed VHS has blossomed in a way few could have imagined over the last couple of years. “The results for Tom Wilson's Back to the Future tapes, for Goonies and Jaws and Ghostbusters and many others, were nothing short of amazing,” says VHS Consignment Director Jay Carlson. But this sealed rarity, and the Maverickrocketing to the top of the box office in recent weeks, prove that everything old is new – and valuable – again. Top Gun was the first tape considered affordable for purchase, retailing for $26.95 this one was given away by the soft-drink maker. The auction closed with a dogfight over one of the movies that defined the videocassette era, the summer of 1986 … and the summer of 2022, for that matter.Ī near-mint copy of Top Gun sold for $17,500 – and not just any copy, but a promotional offering from Diet Pepsi, which changed the case’s cover and added its logo to the back. ![]() ![]() This is one of the movies that defined the videocassette era, the summer of 1986 … and now the summer of 2022, with "Top Gun: Maverick," which, as of June 14, was the highest-grossing movie of 2022 after soaring past $400 million at the domestic Box Office. After a dogfight broke out over this near-mint copy of "Top Gun" with a promotional offering from Diet Pepsi, the winning bidder got it for $17,500.
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