Tim Whitcomb was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to parents James and Barbara Whitcomb. His parents opened the first bar in Green Bay to welcome black patrons in the late 1960s and early 1970s, called My Brothers Place. This decision brought his parents a ton of hate and death threats, but Tim feels extremely fortunate to have met many Green Bay Packer Football Players, including Hall of Famers such as Herb Adderly and Willie Wood, who became close friends of the family.
Tim attended grade school through high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but he spent every summer on Catfish Lake in Eagle River, Wisconsin. His passion for filmmaking began when he discovered Omen II was filming down the road from his parents' summer home when he was 14. It was here that he became fascinated with "movie magic" and vividly remembers watching the filming of the "woman whose eyes were plucked out" before she was struck by a truck. He was grossed out and inspired, and began making home movies with special effects on his parents' Super 8mm camera.
Tim later majored in Theater and Drama at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1986-1990, and was a classically trained actor in Stanislavsky, Meisner, and Uta Hagen techniques. He won Best Actor for his portrayal of Benedick in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". He later had the lead in several more classics, from Becket to Pirandello, and worked with playwright Sam Gaines, a contemporary of legendary playwright Sam Shepherd. Tim also minored in Economics, as he wanted to be able to speak the language of financiers, and spent four years on Wall Street as a Vice President of OTC Trading for Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis. He then moved to Portland, Oregon after his divorce, so he could be closer to his three children.
While working as a Trader in Portland, Oregon, Tim directed many Shakespeare plays in the summer, including Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night. He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Elbert Lovborg in Hedda Gabler.
Tim left his lucrative Wall Street career in 1999 to produce his first feature, Anoosh of the Airways, for which he raised the $1 million budget. His debut effort was selected as one of eight finalists in the 1999 Hollywood Film Festival. The film received mixed reviews and only received foreign distribution, but later became a cult hit in Eastern European countries, who identified with the Armenian immigrant story.
He recently produced the feature film City Baby, which was selected as first runner-up Best Feature in the 2013 Dances with Films Festival in Los Angeles and is available on Amazon Prime.
Tim is most proud of the viral hoax sensation Blackstar Warrior HD, which was screened as "lost footage" at the 2010 Comicon in San Diego. The media picked it up, and many people thought it was a true origin story for Lando Calrissian, garnering over 2 million views.
