Tom McCarthy

Thomas Joseph McCarthy (born 1966) is an American actor, writer, and film director who has appeared in several movies, including Meet the Parents and Good Night, and Good Luck, and television shows such as The Wire, Boston Public, Law & Order, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Saint Maybe. McCarthy has received critical acclaim for his writing/direction work for the independent films The Station Agent, The Visitor, and Win Win. He currently resides in Manhattan. He is the silent partner in a chain of successful Papaya Dogs throughout the greater metropolitan area. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas McCarthy (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Alaska Daily
7.3

Alaska Daily

A star journalist moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep, and finds redemption personally and professionally joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage.

Release Date: 2022-10-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 72

The Last Movie Stars
6.7

The Last Movie Stars

A celebration of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s iconic careers and decades-long partnership. Director Ethan Hawke brings life and color to this definitive history of their love, lives, and philanthropy.

Release Date: 2022-07-21

Character: Sidney Lumet (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 15

Obi-Wan Kenobi
7.1

Obi-Wan Kenobi

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face the wrath of the Empire.

Release Date: 2022-05-26

Department: Production

Job: Consulting Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1863

6.6

Stillwater

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Release Date: 2021-07-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1262

6.2

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.

Release Date: 2020-01-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 183

The Loudest Voice
7.5

The Loudest Voice

The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, while flashing back to defining events in his life.

Release Date: 2019-06-30

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 111

7.3

Christopher Robin

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

Release Date: 2018-08-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2739

13 Reasons Why
7.6

13 Reasons Why

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

Release Date: 2017-03-31

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 49

Vote Count: 4238

7.8

Spotlight

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Release Date: 2015-11-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8283

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date: 2015-08-02

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 17

5.7

Pixels

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Release Date: 2015-07-16

Character: Michael the Robot

Vote Count: 7598

7.9

Inside Out

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

Release Date: 2015-06-17

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 22276

5.8

The Cobbler

Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.

Release Date: 2014-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1667

6.7

Million Dollar Arm

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.

Release Date: 2014-05-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 618

6.8

Win Win

When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.

Release Date: 2011-03-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 504

5.6

Little Fockers

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

Release Date: 2010-12-21

Character: Dr. Bob

Vote Count: 3247

6.0

Jack Goes Boating

A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered around two working-class New York City couples.

Release Date: 2010-09-17

Character: Dr. Bob

Vote Count: 122

6.5

Fair Game

A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.

Release Date: 2010-05-20

Character: Jeff

Vote Count: 787

7.0

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmerich.)

Release Date: 2010-03-02

Character: Self

Vote Count: 3

7.8

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

Release Date: 2010-03-02

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

7.1

The Lovely Bones

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

Release Date: 2009-12-26

Character: Principal Caden

Vote Count: 4663

5.8

2012

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.

Release Date: 2009-10-10

Character: Gordon Silberman

Vote Count: 12044

8.0

Up

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

Release Date: 2009-05-28

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 20449

5.9

Duplicity

Two romantically involved corporate spies team up to manipulate a race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and allow them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.

Release Date: 2009-03-18

Character: Jeff Bauer

Vote Count: 794

6.2

Mammoth

While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.

Release Date: 2009-01-19

Character: Bob Sanders

Vote Count: 112

6.0

Baby Mama

A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

Release Date: 2008-04-25

Character: Kate's Date

Vote Count: 658

7.1

The Visitor

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Release Date: 2008-02-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 459

1.5

The Wire: The Last Word

A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.

Release Date: 2007-12-27

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

6.6

The Wire Odyssey

A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

Release Date: 2007-12-20

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

6.8

Michael Clayton

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

Release Date: 2007-09-28

Character: Waiter (voice)

Vote Count: 1765

5.4

Year of the Dog

A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.

Release Date: 2007-04-13

Character: Pier

Vote Count: 67

6.0

The Situation

The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saïd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.

Release Date: 2007-02-07

Character: Major Hanks

Vote Count: 14

5.2

Beautiful Ohio

A quietly provocative coming-of-age drama about two brothers — Clive and William — growing up in the unconventional household of progressive parents in the 1970s.

Release Date: 2006-11-10

Character: William Messerman (Older)

Vote Count: 10

6.9

Flags of Our Fathers

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Release Date: 2006-10-18

Character: James Bradley

Vote Count: 1866

7.1

Good Night, and Good Luck.

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Release Date: 2005-09-16

Character: Palmer Williams

Vote Count: 1000

7.3

The Station Agent

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Release Date: 2003-12-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 682

The Gallerist

A desperate gallerist conspires to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

5.8

All the King's Men

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.

Release Date: 2006-09-10

Character: Editor

Vote Count: 307

4.9

The Great New Wonderful

The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.

Release Date: 2005-04-22

Character: Davie Burbage

Vote Count: 19

5.7

The Last Shot

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

Release Date: 2004-09-24

Character: Agent Pike

Vote Count: 86

The Wire
8.6

The Wire

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Release Date: 2002-06-02

Character: Scott Templeton

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 2290

Boston Public
7.7

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

Character: Kevin Riley

Episode Count: 14

Vote Count: 44

Certain Guys

Five old friends reunite in Dallas for one buddy's wedding. Over the course of a week, each guy faces a major crisis - Mitch loses the love of his life; Burdett loses his job; Cal unexpectedly discovers he is a father; and Stewart reveals a secret the others might not want to hear. In the end, each one has to rely on the help of his friends to see him through his life-changing dilemma.

Release Date: 2000-10-12

Character: Mitch

6.7

Meet the Parents

Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.

Release Date: 2000-10-06

Character: Dr. Bob Banks

Vote Count: 5989

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date: 1999-09-20

Character: Nick Ganzner

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3882

2.0

30 Days

Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is getting a quickie wedding. Jordan panics and breaks up with Sarah by asking her to marry him.

Release Date: 1999-09-15

Character: Brad Drazin

Vote Count: 1

6.2

Saint Maybe

A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brother sets off a series of tragic events.

Release Date: 1998-11-22

Character: Ian Bedloe

Vote Count: 10

5.0

In My Sister's Shadow

Joan Connor is a lonely florist who falls for her little sister's ex, even though he is stalking the younger woman.

Release Date: 1997-11-12

Character: Michael Butler (as Thomas Joseph McCarthy)

Vote Count: 3

Ally McBeal
6.6

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

Character: Peter Hanks

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 317

The Practice
7.7

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

Character: Kevin Riley

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 103

5.5

Mary & Tim

Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.

Release Date: 1996-11-03

Character: Tim Melville

Vote Count: 2

Spin City
7.0

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

Character: Priest

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 297

Homicide: Life on the Street
8.0

Homicide: Life on the Street

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Release Date: 1993-01-31

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 130

5.0

Rift

A songwriter seeks a psychiatrist's help after his obsession with his best friend's wife turns to chilling fantasies of murder.

Release Date: 1993-01-20

Character: Bartender

Vote Count: 3

Roast Suckling

A darkly humorous, early experimental film from director David Jacobson.

Release Date: 1990-11-01

Character: Calmer

Law & Order
7.4

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Release Date: 1990-09-13

Character: Donald Housman

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 600

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
7.3

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

Release Date: 1971-09-20

Character: Frank Errington

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 9

Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.

Release Date: 1951-12-24

Character: Ian Bedloe

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

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