Timothy Headington is the Chief Executive Officer of Headington Oil, a film producer, and real estate developer.
Education
He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History. He also received graduate degrees in theology and psychology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and completed his residency at the University of Southern California. He has received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater.
Career
Headington"s father was a geologist. Headington is president and sole shareholder of Headington Resources, Incorporated., a Dallas-headquartered company, concentrated primarily in oil and natural gas, real estate/hotel development, film production, private equity and entertainment. Headington is an active philanthropist, personally and through various family foundations.
He stayed under the radar until 2008 when he sold acreage in North Dakota"s Bakken oil play to XTO Energy for $1.85 billion.
As a film financier, he has bankrolled more than a dozen films, most recently World War Z (European Parliament cr) and Hugo (producer), which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning five. As a producer, his greatest commercial success has been The Tourist which grossed $278,346,189 worldwide.
Headington owns two hotels in Dallas, Lumen and Joule.