Timothy L. Raynor
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Born March 15th, 1950, in Greenport, Long Island, New York, the
youngest of four children attended the "little red school house" school
in New Suffolk, Long Island until his parents moved to Oyster Bay, Long
Island. This was the start of many "moves" ending up in Gas City,
Indiana where he graduated from Mississinewa High School in 1968.
Always wanting to be a movie star - he and a friend hitchhiked to
California after graduation and sought out that dream - but the draft
at that time called to him and he decided to join the Navy and entered
the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois. He stayed in the
Navy on board the USS Lafayette - SSBN 616 until his honorable
discharge in 1973. He started his martial arts training at an early age
of 10 and up to his discharge from the Navy - he met and studied under
many masters of different forms. In 1973 - he opened his first martial
arts school in Norwich Conn - where he trained and put together a
championship demo and tournament team - and through this - he still
sought out his acting career and landed his first role in a major film
- Final Exam (1981) - a spin-off of