Tom McLoughlin

For people with similar names, see Tom McLaughlin.

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]

Tom McLoughlin
Born	Thomas Maurice McLoughlin (1950-07-19) July 19, 1950 (age 75) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupations	Director screenwriter
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Nancy McLoughlin (1983–present)
Children	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.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

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

Television

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

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

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[7]
2013	Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th	Himself[8]