Tom McLoughlin

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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[]

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Ref.
1983	One Dark Night	Yes	Yes	No	^[3]
1986	Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives				^[4]
1987	Date with an Angel				^[5]
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	No		Yes
2001	The Unsaid	Yes	No	No	^[6]

Year	Title	Creator	Director	Writer
1986-1987	Amazing Stories	No	No	Yes
1988	Freddy's Nightmares		Yes	No
1988-1989	Friday the 13th: The Series		Yes	Yes
1990-1991	They Came from Outer Space	Yes	No
1990-1991	She-Wolf of London	Yes	No

Year	Title	Notes
1989	Steven Banks: Home Entertainment Center
1991	The Steven Banks Show
	In a Child's Name	Television miniseries
	Sometimes They Come Back
1992	Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1993	Murder of Innocence
1994	The Yarn Princess
	Leave of Absence
	Take Me Home Again
1995	The Haunting of Helen Walker
	Journey
	Inheritance Up Christmas
1997	The Third Twin
1999	Behind the Mask
1999	Anya's Bell
2001	The Unsaid
2002	Murder in Greenwich
2002	Fiona
2003	D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
2004	She's Too Young
2004	A Very Married Christmas
2005	Odd Girl Out
2005	Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life
2006	Not Like Everyone Else
2007	The Staircase Murders
2008	The Texas Cheerleader Scandal
2010	The Wronged Man
	At Risk
	The Front

Year	Title	Role
1979	The Black Hole	Captain S.T.A.R.
1985	Alice in Wonderland	The Jabberwocky
2009	His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th	Himself

↑ "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives – 30th Anniversary Interview with Director Tom McLoughlin". Dread Central (August 5, 2016). Retrieved on February 26, 2018.
↑ "Tom McLoughling". AllMovie. Retrieved on February 25, 2018.
↑ Barton, Steve (February 17, 2006). "One Dark Night (DVD)". Dread Central. Dread Central Media, LLC. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved on July 23, 2020.
↑ 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 on July 23, 2020.
↑ Maslin, Janet (November 21, 1987). "Film: 'Date With an Angel'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 2, 2017. Retrieved on July 23, 2020.
↑ "The Unsaid (2001)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 6, 2020. Retrieved on July 23, 2020.

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