Thomas "Tom" Rickman (February 8, 1940 – September 3, 2018) was an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the 1980 film '' Coal Miner's Daughter''.

Early life and education

Rickman was born in

Sharpe, Kentucky Sharpe is an unincorporated community in northwest Marshall County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United S ...

. He was in the first class at the

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; the class also included Gill Dennis,

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and

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Career

He received a nomination for

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for writing the screenplay of '' Coal Miner's Daughter''. His other films include ''

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'' (1978), '' Truman'' (1995), ''

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'' (1988), and the television film ''

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'' (1999)

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