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Tom Gilroy
Born: 7th Aug 1960 Jamaica
Dept: Acting
Tom Gilroy is an American director, writer, actor, producer, playwright, poet, musician, and teacher. Gilroy has written, directed and produced five films, including the award-winning short Touch Base and the critically acclaimed feature Spring Forward. He has appeared in over 20 television shows and 30 films.
With his theatre company Machine Full, Gilroy has produced over a dozen critically acclaimed productions, most recently the multi-media production of Hamlet for the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Gilroy is also a published haiku poet, having authored the haiku year and Haiku, Not Bombs among others.
Gilroy has collaborated with Michael Stipe on several projects, including "Everything’s Coming Undone," for the compilation album Ciao My Shining Star, The Songs of Mark Mulcahy. He has performed as a musician on tracks by Stipe, Mark Mulcahy, Dub Gabriel, and Ariel Aparicio, whose album Aerials he produced.
Gilroy has also taught as a professor at Columbia University and Davidson College.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 33
Film: 26 (79%)
Television: 7 (21%)
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Filmography
2016
After the molestation of his son, a father struggles with his need to seek revenge and the fear that feeds his inability to do so. ... view
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Mr. Jacobson
2015
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity. ... view
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2015
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bin ... view
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Mr. Anderson
2013
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious dr ... view
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Tom
2008
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the bru ... view
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Preacher John
2008
Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the new ... view
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Louis
Jul 2007 (first aired)
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kes ... view
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Director (1 ep.)
2006
A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 14-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid i ... view
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The Principal
2005
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband. ... view
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Comrade Vik
2005
Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead. ... view
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Bailliff
2004
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery ... view
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Erin's Professor
2004
Two brothers, Harry and Max, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other ... view
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Josiah
2001
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill ... view
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Dawn's Cameraman
Jan 2001 (first aired)
100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula ... view
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Mitchell Fox (1 ep.)
2000
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa ge ... view
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Director of Campaigns
Sep 1999 (first aired)
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55 ... view
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Deranged Shooter (2 ep.)
Sep 1999 (first aired)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate ... view
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Cal Oman (1 ep.)
1999
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from p ... view
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Tom
1998
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby. ... view
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Client #3/$1000 Trick
1998
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot. ... view
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Restaurant Man #1
Jun 1998 (first aired)
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as th ... view
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Tom (1 ep.)
1998
Byron and Nina, a young African American couple, are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to s ... view
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Jack
1997
Set in a mid-century American psychiatric hospital where time seems to stand still. The story follows Jean, a French artist and inpatient, and Monique ... view
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David Sheppard
1997
Johnny, a rock 'n' roll casualty, regales a woman he has just met with his one claim to fame: that he lived with German industrial musician Blixa Barg ... view
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Bar Voice (voice)
1997
When a young man is arrested for trafficking drugs, his girlfriend tries to help him out by making some big money as a member of an exclusive group of ... view
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Morton
1996
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent ... view
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Elliot Callahan
1996
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives. ... view
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Richard Helms
1995
In the midst of the AIDS crisis, a young man from the suburbs moves to the big city of New York and ends up working as a hustler. ... view
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Adult David's Friend
1995
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalit ... view
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Lawrence
1991
Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to ge ... view
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The Scuzz
Sep 1990 (first aired)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someo ... view
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Eric Johnson (1 ep.)
Oct 1988 (first aired)
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to ... view
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Nelson (1 ep.)
1987
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s N ... view
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Artist