Thomas Marshall Penick (June 2, 1948 – March 18, 2016) was a writer and film editor who worked on numerous movies and projects, and was also a part of the L.A.
[2] After that, he went to work under an Oscar-award winning editor Michael Kahn on the TV pilot "Fuzz Brothers" (1973), in addition to the films The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973) and Nightmare Circus (1974).
[3] Thomas went on to work for Paramount Pictures, where he served as an assistant editor on the Gordon Parks film Leadbelly (1976).
While attending UCLA, he befriended and worked alongside directors and fellow peers such as Jamaa Fanaka and Charles Burnett, in addition to helping them as a production manager and editor on My Brother's Wedding (1983).
Finally, he worked as an assistant film editor on a number of television series and trailers for MGM, including the miniseries "George Washington" (1984).
[3] Penick achieved the fastest reading-time while attending St. Aloysius by first familiarizing himself with the weight of a book, and then using his unique ability to understand what is being said without reading word-for-word.