Tom Stern

Directing

Tom Stern

Born 1965-05-18

Tom Stern is a television writer, director and producer working in Los Angeles, California. While at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Stern began a partnership with filmmaker/actor Alex Winter which lasted eight years. After graduating in 1987, the pair moved to Venice Beach and directed IMPACT Video Magazine. Writing for the Jim Henson Hour on NBC was his first mainstream show business job. He first married filmmaker Tamara Hernandez with whom he had two kids: Tuesday and Murray Stern. In March 2015, he married architect Barbara Bestor.

Acting credits

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey poster
6.3

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991

Freaked poster
6.2

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Freaked

1993

Windy City Heat poster
7.3

A man caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he's in is a fake.

Windy City Heat

2003

This Is GWAR poster
7.0

The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years. The feature documentary includes interviews with the band members, both past and present, as well as other artists including Weird Al Yankovic, Thomas Lennnon, Alex Winter, Bam Margera, and Ethan Embry, including never before seen footage of legendary GWAR frontman Dave Brockie.

This Is GWAR

2021

Meals on Wheels poster
NR

Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries following her. However tragedy keeps befalling him at every turn, leading to many wacky situations as he pursues the lady.

Meals on Wheels

1992

Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History poster
5.4

Kevin Hart highlights the fascinating contributions of black history's unsung heroes in this entertaining -- and educational -- comedy special.

Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History

2019

Squeal of Death poster
7.5

Absurd slapstick cartoon-like comedy about Howie, a scrawny kid pushed around by his slob dad and everyone else. He loves cinema and becomes obsessed with a gangster film. This pushes him over the edge into the life of crime. Or does it?

Squeal of Death

1985

Aisles of Doom poster
7.5

In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for its shopkeeper, Grendel T.W. Ulcerous. He's evil, but only the children know it, and no one listens to them. We watch what Grendel does to a couple of them. Then, one day, a stranger in a yellow rain slicker comes to town. A confrontation follows. Is it the end of Grendel?

Aisles of Doom

1989

Behind the camera

An American Werewolf in Paris poster
5.9

An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

An American Werewolf in Paris

1997

Freaked poster
6.2

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Freaked

1993

Freaked poster
6.2

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Freaked

1993

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt poster
NR

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

2025

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt poster
NR

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

2025

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt poster
NR

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

2025

Alligator Boots poster
NR

Alligator Boots was a pilot episode for a puppet-based variety show, similar to The Muppet Show, created by Ye in collaboration with Rhymefest and the creators of Crank Yankers - Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, and Daniel Kellison. The show was developed for Comedy Central, but since they did not pick up the series, the pilot never officially aired.

Alligator Boots

2008

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV poster
8.9

God Is in the T.V. is the second video album by Marilyn Manson. It features all 13 music videos Marilyn Manson spawned between July 1994 and November 1999, as well as uncensored bonus footage from the production of "The Dope Show" music video and nearly an hour of live and backstage footage from the Rock Is Dead tour.

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

1999

Meals on Wheels poster
NR

Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries following her. However tragedy keeps befalling him at every turn, leading to many wacky situations as he pursues the lady.

Meals on Wheels

1992

Meals on Wheels poster
NR

Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries following her. However tragedy keeps befalling him at every turn, leading to many wacky situations as he pursues the lady.

Meals on Wheels

1992

Adams poster
3.5

One of the first film adaptations of Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders' work, this examination of white male rage against " the other' tells the story of Roger (Patton Oswalt) and Adams (Fred Armisen), two neighbors locked in an escalating conflict.

Adams

2019

Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History poster
5.4

Kevin Hart highlights the fascinating contributions of black history's unsung heroes in this entertaining -- and educational -- comedy special.

Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History

2019

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come poster
6.0

Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams by the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come. He is then taken through time to see what havoc man wrought upon the world.

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come

1990

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come poster
6.0

Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams by the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come. He is then taken through time to see what havoc man wrought upon the world.

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come

1990

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget poster
8.8

A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos.

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

2004

Squeal of Death poster
7.5

Absurd slapstick cartoon-like comedy about Howie, a scrawny kid pushed around by his slob dad and everyone else. He loves cinema and becomes obsessed with a gangster film. This pushes him over the edge into the life of crime. Or does it?

Squeal of Death

1985

Aisles of Doom poster
7.5

In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for its shopkeeper, Grendel T.W. Ulcerous. He's evil, but only the children know it, and no one listens to them. We watch what Grendel does to a couple of them. Then, one day, a stranger in a yellow rain slicker comes to town. A confrontation follows. Is it the end of Grendel?

Aisles of Doom

1989

Aisles of Doom poster
7.5

In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for its shopkeeper, Grendel T.W. Ulcerous. He's evil, but only the children know it, and no one listens to them. We watch what Grendel does to a couple of them. Then, one day, a stranger in a yellow rain slicker comes to town. A confrontation follows. Is it the end of Grendel?

Aisles of Doom

1989