Tom Gregory (producer) Lincoln. Hollywood memorabilia in his collection are the cowboy shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the film Brokeback Mountain as well as the suit, shirt, tie and campaign pin worn by Sean Penn during his Oscar-winning performance in Milk The auction bids for these items have benefited different children's charities. Tom Gregory's philanthropic involvement also spans both coasts. In Los Angeles, he teaches after-school acting classes for preteens, drawing on his own acting experience gained in repertory companies in East Hampton, New York, Delray Beach, Florida, and across the United States. In Southampton New York, Tom Gregory
Heath Ledger worked with the actor praised him for his creativity, seriousness and intuition. "I've never felt as old as I did watching Heath explore his talents," "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan has written, expressing amazement over the actor's working process, genuine curiosity and charisma. Marc Forster, who directed Ledger in "Monster's Ball", complimented him as taking the job "very seriously", being disciplined, observant, and understanding and intuitive. In 2007, director Todd Haynes compared Ledger's presence to actor James Dean, casting Ledger as Robbie Clarke, a fictive personification of Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There". Drawing on the similar characteristics between