Career Highlights

  • Tom’s memoir, If You Could See What I Hear, was turned into a major motion picture
  • Emmy-winning Sullivan continues to write and produce for television and film
  • Tom recently created, wrote, hosted and produced ESPN’s Emmy nominated special, “Superior Beings”
  • Tom taught Ben Affleck to be blind in the movie Daredevil, about a blind superhero
  • Tom was honored with the 2004 Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Memorial Award. Former honorees include Carol Burnett, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart.
  • Tom moved audiences singing with Dellas Reese on Touched by an Angel
  • Tom gained national reputation over 5 years as a special correspondent for Good Morning America along with 60 Tonight Show appearances starring Johnny Carson
  • Tom is 1 of only 35 people who sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowl
  • Tom won the 2004 Books for a Better Life Award for Seeing Lessons: 14 Life Secrets I’ve Learned Along the Way
  • Tom is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Tom snow skis, shoots mid 80 golf, competes in marathons and triathlons, water skis and occasionally bungee jumps. TRY THAT BLIND
  • Along with Helen Keller, Tom is the only recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Foundation for the Blind