Tom Alter Movies and Career Information

Tom Alter (born 1950) is an Indian actor of American origin. As a thespian and television actor, he is most prominently known for his work in Hindi language Indian cinema . In 2008, he was awarded Padma Shri by the Indian government. A native of Mussoorie of Uttarakhand state in India, Tom Alter is the son of American Christian missionaries and has lived for years between the metropolis of Mumbai and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. His father was born in Sialkot. His elder sister Martha is a PhD in Sanskrit and brother John, a poet and a teacher . As a child, he studied Hindi and Urdu and, as a result, has occasionally been referred to as the "Blue-eyed saheb with the impeccable Hindi." He studied at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune, 1972 batch.His major inspiration to come in film line was Rajesh Khanna. He confessed in an interview “I still dream of being Rajesh Khanna. For me, in the early 1970s, he was the only hero — romantic to the core, not larger than life, so Indian and real — he was my hero; the reason I came into films and he still is. Tom taught at st thomas school in Jagadhri (Haryana) for $50 a month before taking the film route.he worked as a