Education
He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied History.
He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied History.
Winter is also a partner in ThomasWinterCooke, which produces television commercials and represents a number of commercial directors. He has helped along such film schools as the Veracity Project, Biola University, and lectured at Regent College, Vancouver. Winter was born in Glendale, California, the son of Effie Audrey (Crawford) and Charles Frederick Winter.
His first experience in production was producing training videos for Broadway Department Stores.
In 1978, Winter started working in the film business for Paramount Pictures television, where he worked on Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork and Mindy. Following his experiences in television he started working alongside Harve Bennett on the Star Trek films.
Winter is also active in producing Christian movies, such as Thr3e, based on Ted Dekker"s book, and Hangman"s Curse and The Visitation, both of which were novel-to-movie creations written by Christian author Frank Peretti. His latest Christian film House was released in March 2009.
Recently, it was announced that he is producing a film version of C. South. Lewis" The Screwtape Letters.
Filmography 1984 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1989 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 Plymouth 1993 Hocus Pocus 1994 The Puppet Masters 1995 Hackers 1996 High Incident 1998 Mighty Joe Young 1999 Inspector Gadget 2000 X-Men 2000 Left Behind: The Movie 2001 Planet of the Apes 2003 Blizzard 2003 X2: X-Men United 2005 Fantastic Four 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 The Visitation 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 2007 Thr3e 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2010 In My Sleep 2010 Cool It TBA Reagan.
He is also a member of the Entertainment & Tourism Management Advisory Board at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton.