Tommy Cole Biography
Tommy Cole is an American make-up artist, actor, and musician who played a Mouseketeer in the Mickey Mouse Club television series. Cole began his musical career as a young youngster, playing accordion with three other kids in a western swing band.
Tommy Cole Age
Cole was born Thomas Alden Cole on 20 December 1941, in Burbank, California, United States of America. He is 82 years old as of December 2023.
Tommy Cole Family- Parents
Tommy Cole was born in Burbank, California, but grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of La Cañada. His father was an editor for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, while his mother eventually worked part-time at movie studios as a welfare guardian for minor children. He has one older brother named John Cole.
Tommy Cole Wife
Tommy’s wife, Aileen, is a former dancer. They met in Korea during a USO tour in the mid-1960s and married when they both returned to the United States. They have two children.
Tommy Cole Career
Cole began his musical career as a young youngster, playing accordion with three other kids in a western swing band. The band performed in amateur contests and small clubs, and they even landed a one-time spot on Ray Bolger’s mid-1950s television show Where’s Raymond? In addition to playing the accordion, he was the band’s singer. When the ensemble auditioned at the Disney Studios for The Mickey Mouse Club in the spring of 1955, he was the only one chosen to join the Mouseketeers cast. Cole’s singing abilities earned him a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club’s first-string Red Team halfway through the 1955-56 season. He remained with the show for its final two seasons of original programming (1956–1958).
Tommy Cole’s career for the next few years revolved around live singing at youth clubs, public events, and as an opening act for other musicians. He attended Pasadena City College, served in the Air Force, and appeared as a guest star on several television shows. By 1964, he understood that his days as a performer were numbered, so he looked for another means to stay in show business. Cole began learning make-up techniques from one of the show’s regular artists while appearing on an episode of My Three Sons in 1963. He quickly became an apprentice, working first for ABC and then, in the 1960s, for NBC.
He began freelancing as a make-up artist in the early 1970s, receiving Emmy nominations in 1975 for Masquerade Party and 1978 for Once Upon a Brothers Grimm before winning in 1979 with Mark Bussan and Ron Walters for Backstairs at the White House. Cole has since received Emmy nominations for the miniseries Right to Die (1988), the television series Wings (1996), and, most recently, the television special Gepetto (2000), for which he co-won the Hollywood Makeup Artists and Hairstylist Guild Award.
Tommy Cole Net Worth
Cole has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Tommy Cole Movies
The Mickey Mouse Club
Disneyland
Leave It to Beaver
My Three Sons
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Mickey Mouse Club Story