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      Thomas Schlamme

      Thomas Schlamme

      Highest Rated: 93% A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)

      Lowest Rated: 45% You So Crazy (1994)

      Birthday: May 22, 1950

      Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA

      One of the top TV directors since the mid-1980s, Thomas Schlamme functions equally well in sitcoms or dramas, sacrificing plot for yucks in the former while relishing the more complex lighting and camera angles required by the latter. Over the years, he has developed an easily identified kinetic style and cinema verite quality, perhaps best exemplified by his Emmy-nominated direction of "Ambush," the live episode kicking off the 1997-1998 season of NBC's medical drama "ER."

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      Thomas Schlamme at arrivals for 71st Annual Directors Guild of America DGA Awards Gala, Hollywood & Highland Center Ray Dolby Ballroomdolb, Los Angeles, CA February 2, 2019. Photo By: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Thomas Schlamme, Robert B. Aldrich Service Award in the press room for 69th Annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards - Press Room, The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA February 4, 2017. Photo By: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER, director Thomas Schlamme, on set, 1993. ©TriStar Pictures
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      93% 92% A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote Director,
      Executive Producer       		- 2020
      No Score Yet 40% Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long Director - 1995
      45% 86% You So Crazy Director $10.2M 1994
      53% 68% So I Married an Axe Murderer Director $9.0M 1993
      No Score Yet 82% Crazy From the Heart Director - 1991
      75% 52% Miss Firecracker Director $646.9K 1989

      TV

      Credit
      43% 44% A Man in Full Executive Producer,
      Director       		2024
      92% 91% Snowfall Executive Producer 2017-2019 2021-2023
      86% 81% Under the Banner of Heaven Director 2022
      87% 72% The Plot Against America Director 2020
      96% 94% The Americans Director 2018
      82% 79% When We Rise Director 2017
      91% 91% Manhattan Executive Producer 2015
      70% 71% Pan Am Executive Producer,
      Director       		2011-2012
      52% 38% Mr. Sunshine Executive Producer,
      Director       		2011
      88% 95% Parenthood Director 2010
      80% 79% Invasion Director 2005
      88% No Score Yet Jack & Bobby Executive Producer,
      Director       		2004-2005
      81% 95% The West Wing Director,
      Executive Producer       		1999-2003
      90% 92% Sports Night Director,
      Executive Producer       		1998-2000
      100% 66% The Larry Sanders Show Director 1998
      44% No Score Yet Ink Director 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Tracey Takes On ... Director 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mad About You Director 1993-1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Director 1996
      86% No Score Yet Almost Perfect Director 1996
      No Score Yet 86% The Wonder Years Director 1991-1992