Tom McLoughlin
Thomas Maurice McLoughlin is an American screenwriter, film/television director and former mime who is most notable for directing Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and One Dark Night. His other credits include numerous television films such as Murder in Greenwich, At Risk, Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life, Date with an Angel and the 2010 Lifetime Movie Network film The Wronged Man. In 1977, McLoughlin was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his contributions to Van Dyke and Company, a special starring Dick Van Dyke.
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Tom McLoughlin
- Born
- 1950. · United States.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- actor, screenwriter, writer and director.
- Languages
- English.
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Thomas Maurice McLoughlin is an American screenwriter, film/television director and former mime who is most notable for directing Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and One Dark Night. His other credits include numerous television films such as Murder in Greenwich, At Risk, Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life, Date with an Angel and the 2010 Lifetime Movie Network film The Wronged Man. In 1977, McLoughlin was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his contributions to Van Dyke and Company, a special starring Dick Van Dyke.
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Two years later, he portrayed the robot S.T.A.R. (Special Troops/Arms Regiment) in the Disney film The Black Hole. He also played (along with Kevin Peter Hall) Katahdin, the mutated bear in the 1979 horror film Prophecy.
TV movies Steven Banks: Home Entertainment Center (1989) The Steven Banks Show (1991) In A Child's Name (Television Mini-series) (1991) Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) Murder of Innocence (1993) The Yarn Princess (1994) Leave of Absence (1994) Take Me Home Again (1994) The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995) Journey (1995) A Different Kind of Christmas (1996) The Third Twin (1997) Behind the Mask (1999) Anya's Bell (1999) The Unsaid (2001) Murder in Greenwich (2002) Fiona (2002) D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003) She's Too Young (2004) A Very Married Christmas (2004) Odd Girl Out (2005) Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005) Not Like Everyone Else (2006) The Staircase Murders (2007) Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008) The Wronged Man (2010) At Risk (2010) The Front (2010) Acting role
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- 1.Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives – 30th Anniversary Interview with Director Tom McLoughlin. Dread Central. August 5, 2016.
- 2.Tom McLoughlin. AllMovie.
- 3.Barton, Steve. One Dark Night (DVD). Dread Central. Dread Central Media, LLC. February 17, 2006.
- 4.Meslow, Scott. Why the Sixth Friday the 13th Movie Might Be the Best of Them All. GQ. Condé Nast. January 13, 2017.
- 5.Maslin, Janet. Film: 'Date With an Angel'. The New York Times. November 21, 1987.
- 6.British Film Institute. The Unsaid (2001).
- 7.Tom McLoughlin. TVGuide.com.
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