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Martha Chen (sister) Stephen Alter (first cousin) Thomas Beach Alter (22 June 1950 – 29 September 2017) [1] was an American–Indian actor. [2] He was best known for his works in Hindi cinema, [3] [4] and Indian theatre. [5] In 2008, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
Sep 30, 2017 · Film and theater actor Tom Alter passed away at the age of 67 at his Mumbai residence on Saturday. The actor was suffering from squamous cell carcinoma (a type of skin cancer). Tom made his big screen debut in 1976 with a small role in Dharmendra-starrer Charas and later went on to work in many films.
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Tom Alter, the son and grandson of American Presbyterian missionaries who first came to India in 1916, grew up in north India in the towns of Rajpur and Mussoorie, and studied at Woodstock School. It was while teaching at a school in Jagadhri, Haryana in the early 1970s that Alter picked honed his Hindi and fell in love with the movies, in specific Indian cinema.
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- Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Oct 6, 2017 · Oct. 6, 2017. Tom Alter, an Indian-born character actor of American descent who spent his career playing Westerners in Bollywood films, died on Sept. 29 at his home in Mumbai. He was 67. His ...
Tom Alter was born to American parents in Mussoorie and studied at Woodstock School and Yale University. With a gold medal in acting from Pune’s Film and Television Institute, Alter debuted in ...
Sep 30, 2017 · Tom Alter was born in 1950 in Mussoorie, the son of American missionaries. He studied at Woodstock School in Mussoorie and later at Pune's Film and Television Institute.
Sep 30, 2017 · Mumbai: Veteran theatre, film and television actor Tom Alter has passed away aged 67. According to people in his family, Alter, who was battling skin cancer, passed away on Friday night at his ...
