Tracy Tormé was an American screenwriter and producer. He was born on April 12, 1959, in Los Angeles, California.
Tormé began his career in the 1970s, as a writer on SCTV. From 1982 to 1983, he was a writer for Saturday Night Live. Later in the decade, he was a story editor and writer on the first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1991 with Barry Oringer, Tormé wrote the screenplay for the miniseries Intruders which ran on CBS in May 1992. Intruders was based on the book of the same name by Budd Hopkins. With Robert K. Weiss he co-created the television series Sliders, which ran from 1995 to 2000, first on Fox and later on Sci-Fi Channel. Other series he wrote for included Odyssey 5 and Carnivàle. Tormé was nominated for the 1993 Saturn Award for Best Writing for his screenplay on the film Fire in the Sky based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience. He was also a co-producer on the 2007 film I Am Legend and wrote an early treatment for the project.
Tormé died of complications from diabetes in Escondido, California, on January 4, 2024, at the age of 64.
