Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Tom Boutross co-directed the 1959 sci-fi
drama
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958). He subsequently worked for many years on TV's
The Magical World of Disney (1954)
under its new title "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color." Boutross
spent most of his career as an editor, beginning in with the
aforementioned
The Hideous Sun Demon (1958) and ending with
Dark Before Dawn (1988).