Thomas Schlamme
Thomas Schlamme (born May 22, 1950) is an American television director and producer.
Works
A Man in Full
Facing relentless foes and sudden bankruptcy, an Atlanta real estate tycoon must claw his way back to the top when his empire begins to crumble.
Release Date: 2024-05-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 67
Under the Banner of Heaven
A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
Release Date: 2022-04-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 324
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Taped at Los Angeles’ iconic Orpheum Theatre, this staged presentation of The West Wing’s “Hartsfield’s Landing” episode stars core cast members along with special guest stars. Act Breaks feature commentary from former First Lady Michelle Obama, President Bill Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda who share messages about the vital importance of making our voices heard in every election.
Release Date: 2020-10-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 19
The Plot Against America
An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Release Date: 2020-03-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 177
Snowfall
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
Release Date: 2017-07-05
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 60
Vote Count: 589
When We Rise
The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. The period piece tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
Release Date: 2017-02-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 42
Manhattan
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
Release Date: 2014-07-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 121
The Americans
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
Release Date: 2013-01-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 956
Doubt
Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife.
Release Date: 2013-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Frontier
Set in the 1840s, show centers on a group that follows their dreams and heads west from Missouri across the uncharted country.
Release Date: 2012-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Pan Am
In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots are rock stars and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. They're trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances—all without rumpling their pristine uniforms or mussing their hair.
Release Date: 2011-09-25
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 14
Vote Count: 119
Mr. Sunshine
Ben Donovan is a self-involved manager of a second-rate San Diego sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday. Working alongside him is his boss and arena owner, Crystal--attractive, powerful and highly erratic; Alice--the cute, tomboyish marketing director and Ben's friend with benefits; Alonzo--a former basketball player, handsome and unbelievably happy; Ben's assistant, Heather--pretty, sweet, but terrifying because she once lit a boyfriend on fire; Crystal's son, Roman--sweet-faced, clueless and Ben's newest employee; and a hapless operations crew whom Ben refers to collectively as the "Steves."
Release Date: 2011-02-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 63
Parenthood
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Release Date: 2010-03-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 147
Life on Mars
After a car crash, police detective Sam Tyler mysteriously finds himself transported back to 1973 and still working as a detective.
Release Date: 2008-10-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 91
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show.
Release Date: 2006-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 123
Invasion
In the aftermath of a hurricane the Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water. People in the town start to act different, who can you trust?
Release Date: 2005-09-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 121
Jack & Bobby
If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother Grace McCallister. Grace's personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as President of the United States.
Release Date: 2004-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 12
InBetweening America
Based on a New Yorker magazine cover by Saul Steinberg, twenty American icons morph from one to another, representing the vast diversity in this country. InBetweening America was Candy Kugel's first film. She created it in 1977 when she first started inbetweening TV commercials at Perpetual Motion Pictures. It was finally completed in 2001 when The Saul Steinberg Foundation gave permission to exhibit it.
Release Date: 2001-10-05
Department: Editing
Job: Editor
The Best Damn Sports Show Period
The Best Damn Sports Show Period is an American sports television show that used to air on Fox Sports Net and Comcast SportsNet. The show regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers. It also aired Top 50 countdown shows and other sports specialty shows. Since its debut on July 23, 2001, BDSSP welcomed thousands of guests and aired more than 1,300 episodes. The last original show aired June 30, 2009, however, FSN will tape a handful of Top 50 specials. The show aired weeknights at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time, usually after FSN Final Score, or later if there was a local live sporting event that ran longer than expected, depending on the region and telecast schedule.
Release Date: 2001-07-23
Episode Count: 1
Boston Public
Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.
Release Date: 2000-10-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 45
The West Wing
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
Release Date: 1999-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 14
Vote Count: 511
Sports Night
The offbeat cast and crew of a sports news show deal with professional, personal, and ethical challenges while functioning in a pressure-cooker work environment.
Release Date: 1998-09-22
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 45
Vote Count: 58
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
Release Date: 1997-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 323
Arsenio
Arsenio is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC. The series starred Arsenio Hall and Vivica A. Fox. It aired from March 5 to April 23, 1997 with a total of 7 episodes produced.
Release Date: 1997-03-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
The Practice
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
Release Date: 1997-03-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 106
Ink
Ink is a television sitcom which aired on CBS from 1996-1997 that starred real-life husband and wife Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as newspaper journalists, allegedly inspired by the film His Girl Friday. The show was also produced by Danson and Steenburgen. The show was canceled after one season due to lower than expected ratings. The distribution rights to the series are currently owned by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The show's pilot was drastically changed and reshot from the original version. Ink was filmed at the soundstages of CBS Studio City in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. Outdoor scenes were usually shot at the small backlot streets of the same studio.
Release Date: 1996-10-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2
Spin City
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
Release Date: 1996-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 301
Tracey Takes On...
Tracey Takes On... is a sketch comedy series starring comedienne Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the 1993 comedy special "Tracey Ullman Takes on New York." Each episode focuses on specific subject in which Ullman and her cast characters comment on or experience through a series of sketches and monologues.
Release Date: 1996-01-24
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 50
Vote Count: 4
If Not for You
If Not For You is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 18 until October 9, 1995.
Release Date: 1995-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Almost Perfect
Almost Perfect is an American situation comedy that aired on the CBS television network from September 17, 1995 until October 30, 1996. The series focused on the professional life of the female executive producer of a television cop show, her witty, zany staff which doubled as her family, and initially, how she balanced her high-powered role with that of her newfound romance with a busy assistant D.A. The series was created by Ken Levine, David Isaacs and Robin Schiff, and produced by Levine & Isaacs Productions and Robin Schiff Productions, in association with Paramount Television. Levine and Isaacs were previously known for their work as writers and producers on the long-running Paramount-produced Cheers, as well as on its Paramount stablemate Wings. Like the latter shows, Almost Perfect featured a tight-knit ensemble aspect between the cast, which in this case was formed by the production staff of the fictional cop show. CBS canceled the series just four episodes into its second season. Six leftover episodes aired on Lifetime in December 1997, followed by reruns of the entire series surfacing on USA Network's weekday morning lineup between 1998 and 2001.
Release Date: 1995-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Pride & Joy
Pride & Joy, is an American comedy series that aired on NBC in 1995. The series revolved around a Manhattan couple with a newborn son, Greg and Amy Sherman, and a couple across the hall, Nathan and Carol Green. The series soon folded after one season.
Release Date: 1995-03-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.
Release Date: 1995-03-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
Friends
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
Release Date: 1994-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 8364
ER
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Release Date: 1994-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 852
Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
Release Date: 1994-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 75
Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy
Stand up comedy by Martin Lawrence, filmed in the Majestic Theater in New York City. Martin Lawrence talks about everything from racism, to relationships, to his childhood.
Release Date: 1994-04-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 18
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.
Release Date: 1993-07-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 434
Mad About You
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
Release Date: 1992-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 227
The Larry Sanders Show
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.
Release Date: 1992-08-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 81
Rowan Atkinson Live: Invisible Drum Kit
In this hilarious clip Rowan bumps into something seemingly innocuous while sweeping the stage. This world famous clip sees him play an invisible drum kit.
Release Date: 1992-04-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Rowan Atkinson Live
Rowan Atkinson and Angus Deayton in Boston doing a live performance of the same styles of humor we've seen in Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Included are lessons on Shakespearean acting, a school headmaster meeting with the father of a boy he's beaten to death, and tips for having a successful date.
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 43
Mambo Mouth
John Leguizamo's award winning one man stage performance as several different characters.
Release Date: 1991-10-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Sessions
Release Date: 1991-10-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Crazy From the Heart
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Release Date: 1991-08-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Miss Firecracker
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.
Release Date: 1989-04-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 25
Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo
In this spoof of a television talk show, Midler portrays the Italian bombshell hostess, Mondo Beyondo. Her guests include monologuist David Cale; Bill Irwin, mime, comedian and clown; and the bizarre Kipper Kids.
Release Date: 1988-03-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Wonder Years
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
Release Date: 1988-01-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 1020
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Monologue by Spalding Gray about his misadventures in purchasing a home.
Release Date: 1987-11-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Gilbert Gottfried... Naturally
Improvisation and impersonations.
Release Date: 1987-04-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Gift Of Amazing Grace
Teenage girl is frustrated about her lack of singing ability in her gospel singing family. She writes a song about her problem, and soon finds where her musical talent lies.
Release Date: 1986-11-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Sledge Hammer!
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
Release Date: 1986-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 152
Robert Klein on Broadway
Robert Klein on Broadway.
Release Date: 1986-07-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Can A Guy Say No?
A 17-year-old boy finds that looks can be deceiving when he becomes friends with the prettiest girl in school; despite her beauty, she's very unhappy and has low self-esteem.
Release Date: 1986-02-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Wayside School
American animated television movie from 1986.
Release Date: 1986-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway
Whoopi Goldberg in her original one-woman show.
Release Date: 1985-07-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 7
Robert Klein: Child of the 50's, Man of the 80's
1984 Live Recording from campus of New York University.
Release Date: 1984-08-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
The Divine Miss M is featured in a concert filmed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, at the culmination of her most recent cross-country tour which was known as "De Tour". This live recording was a combination of footage from both September 10 and 11, 1983. Set against a Renaissance art background and outfitted in a rainbow array of costumes, Midler sings and performs her uninhibited stage antics.
Release Date: 1984-08-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Bette Midler: No Frills
Bette Midler’s “No Frills” Cinemax Special
Release Date: 1983-08-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Rowan Atkinson: Not Just a Pretty Face
Eccentric British comedian Rowan Atkinson, creator of uniquely hilarious characters such as Edmund Blackadder and Mr. Bean, entertains a live audience in Boston in this 1992 stand-up performance that showcases his love of the absurd.
Department: Directing
Job: Director