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Thomas Maurice "Tom" 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. 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.

Filmography

Film

Television

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

References

1. "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives – 30th Anniversary Interview with Director Tom McLoughlin". Dread Central. August 5, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
2. "Tom McLoughling". AllMovie. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
3. Barton, Steve (February 17, 2006). "One Dark Night (DVD)". Dread Central. Dread Central Media, LLC. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
4. Meslow, Scott (January 13, 2017). "Why the Sixth Friday the 13th Movie Might Be the Best of Them All". GQ. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on June 17, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
5. Maslin, Janet (November 21, 1987). "Film: 'Date With an Angel'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 2, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
6. "The Unsaid (2001)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 6, 2020. Retrieved July 23, 2020.

External links

• Tom McLoughlin at IMDb

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