
Directing
Tom McNamara
Born — Died
1886-05-07 — 1964-05-19
Known for
Directing
Credits
11 titles
Tom McNamara (May 7, 1886 – May 19, 1964) was an American film director, screenwriter and cartoonist from the 1910s to the 1940s. He is perhaps best known for his involvement as a director of several Our Gang shorts for the Hal Roach studio, and as the creator of the comic strip Us Boys in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
Known for
3.7The pre-show to the major award shows that airs on E! Entertainment Television. Live From the Red Carpet covers celebrity arrivals and gets you right up for a first-row seat to see the stars and all the excitement with live coverage of the fashion, flair, glitz and glamour.
Live from E!
2002
6.4Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
Little Orphan Annie
1932
9.0Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Waldron, an ambitious woman actually in love with engineer Martin Bates. When Bates drifts into the mining town, the miners, while drunk, force him to marry Colette. She nurses him back to health and they gradually fall in love. The arrival of Folsom and Gloria threatens to break up their marriage, and Colette prevents a fight between the two men by wounding Folsom, causing the latter to come to his senses and teaching his wife a lesson.
The Idol of the North
1921
5.2A woman secretly sells her ancestral home in order to fund her sweetheart's new invention, a videophone, and then marries him when his fortune is made, only to be betrayed by his affair with her best friend.
Up the Ladder
1925
6.7A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
The Cobbler
1923
6.3The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
Fire Fighters
1922
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.4Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
Little Orphan Annie
1932
9.0Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Waldron, an ambitious woman actually in love with engineer Martin Bates. When Bates drifts into the mining town, the miners, while drunk, force him to marry Colette. She nurses him back to health and they gradually fall in love. The arrival of Folsom and Gloria threatens to break up their marriage, and Colette prevents a fight between the two men by wounding Folsom, causing the latter to come to his senses and teaching his wife a lesson.
The Idol of the North
1921
5.2A woman secretly sells her ancestral home in order to fund her sweetheart's new invention, a videophone, and then marries him when his fortune is made, only to be betrayed by his affair with her best friend.
Up the Ladder
1925
6.7A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
The Cobbler
1923
6.3The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
Fire Fighters
1922
6.0A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
Boys to Board
1923
6.9The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.
Saturday Morning
1922
6.5Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.
One Terrible Day
1922
6.8The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
Young Sherlocks
1922
7.1The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind up encountering the police's real quarry: Red Mike.
A Quiet Street
1922
