Biography
Tyler Templeton was born in 1991 to Margaret and Harold Templeton, in a
small town west of the Appalachian mountains called Paris, Kentucky. Despite poor
grades and an inauspicious youth, Tyler exhibited a proclivity toward filmmaking in
his junior high photography class. Notable among his early efforts was an amateur
period piece about Appalachian corn farmers in the early 20th century, which he
debuted at a middle school talent show to lukewarm reception.
In his late teens Tyler left Paris and ventured West, where he wandered as a
transient for nigh on a decade before his eventual adoption by eminent film mogul
Arthur Soundheimer. Soundheimer, having discovered what he would go on to
describe as “a homeless goldmine” (My Life In Pictures: An Autobiography, Arthur P.
Soundheimer, published posthumously in 2008) would bring the young Templeton
under his wing and finance his most notable cinematic efforts.