Tom Woodruff Jr.

Academy Award winning Character Creator | Co-Founder Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.

Consistently listed among the top 10 creature performers of all time. Tom Woodruff Jr. …makes the best characters ever.

Nicholas Earl

Tom Woodruff Jr. Forum, Filmbug

About Tom

Tom Woodruff Jr. is a legendary creature suit performer, Academy Award-winning character creator, and Co-Founder of Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.

Soon after moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Tom started working at Stan Winston Studio on The Terminator. While working for Winston, he would also contribute to Aliens and Predator. For The Monster Squad, Woodruff, Jr. gained Winston’s support to portray the Gillman and followed up with leading monster roles in SWS projects Pumpkinhead and Leviathan.

Tom would eventually leave Stan Winston Studio to form Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) with fellow Stan Winston Studio effects supervisor Alec Gillis. Since then, Tom has gone on to design and play creatures and animals in a wide variety of feature films and television shows. He shared an Academy Award for ADI’s work in Death Becomes Her, an Oscar nomination for Alien 3, and numerous industry awards.

In addition to his most recent credits Prey, Smile, and Godzilla vs. Kong, Tom's work can be seen in The Predator, The Nun, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, It, Bright, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Ender’s Game, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Zookeeper, Spider-Man, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Alien vs. Predator, The Santa Clause 1-3, Tremors 1-4, Starship Troopers, Jumanji, Mortal Kombat, Wolf, and many more.