Tom Pittman (March 16, 1932 – October 31, 1958) was an American actor. He died aged twenty-six, described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of Hollywood's most promising young actors".

He was born in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

. His father was TV-radio actor Frank Alten. He appeared in the films The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel

The Proud Rebel is a 1958 American film directed by Michael Curtiz with a screenplay by Lillie Hayward that is based on a story by James Edward Grant. The movie is about a former confederate soldier who is falsely accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman comes to his aid, but she...

(1958) with Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd

-Early life:Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was the only child of Ina Raleigh Ladd and Alan Ladd, Sr. He was of English ancestry. His father died when he was four, and his mother relocated to Oklahoma City where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter...

, High School Big Shot

High School Big Shot

High School Big Shot is a 1959 film starring Tom Pittman as Marv Grant, a smart high school student whose plans for getting a college scholarship are threatened by his alcoholic father played by Malcolm Atterbury, and his relationship with the most popular girl in school. The plot is remarkably...

(1958) and Verboten!

Verboten!

Verboten! is a 1959 film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller. It was the last film of the influential but troubled RKO studio, which co-produced it with Fuller's own Globe Enterprises. It was filmed at the RKO Forty Acres backlot...

(1959); and also in Wagon Train, Cimarron and Zane Grey Theater on television.

He died in a car crash at Benedict Canyon, California in 1958, after leaving a Halloween party; his body was found nearly three weeks later.

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