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- Related Stories Obituaries 2026 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Obituaries 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Born on December 5, 1949, in New Orleans, Causey’s career in sound spanned more than 40 years, working with such top-name directors as Francis Ford Coppola (Gardens of Stone), Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich), Garry Marshall , Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King), John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon 3), Albert Brooks (Defending Your Life) and James L.
- Brooks (Broadcast News).
- He also worked on nine films starring and/or produced by Adam Sandler.
- Sometimes credited as Tom Causey, he already had a handful of sound-department credits when he served as a sound mixer on Carpenter’s landmark 1978 horror pic Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
- That year he also worked as a production mixer on several episodes of CBS’ Dallas and NBC’s Police Story.
