Tom Holland
Highest Rated: 83% Model Shop (1969)
Lowest Rated: 17% The Beast Within (1982)
Birthday: Jul 11, 1943
Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Here's a clever genre filmmaker whose talent lies less in creating original material than in recycling old, but good ideas. Holland's screenplay for "Class of 1984" (1982) was a riotous, punked-out updating of "The Blackboard Jungle" (1955) as an action comic-book. "Cloak and Dagger" (1984) was a shrewd, quasi-Spielbergian take on "The Window," the 1949 noir sleeper about an imaginative little boy who cries wolf one time too many. His smart and witty screenplay for "Psycho II" (1983) helped make a particularly dreaded sequel into a pleasant surprise featuring classic characters and sets in new situations. As the writer-director of "Child's Play" (1988), Holland resuscitated the hoary device of an evil murderous doll to construct a surprise hit that inaugurated the three-picture "Chucky" franchise.
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Tom Holland
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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65% |
|
King on Screen | Self | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Timekeepers of Eternity |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2021 |
57% |
|
A Place Among the Dead | TH (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet |
|
Rock, Paper, Scissors | Director | - | 2017 |
60% |
|
Digging Up the Marrow | Self | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
|
Tom Holland's Twisted Tales |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 2014 |
42% |
|
Hatchet II | Bob (Character) | - | 2010 |
19% |
|
Stephen King's Thinner |
Director, Screenwriter |
$15.3M | 1996 |
50% |
|
Stephen King's 'The Langoliers' | Director | - | 1995 |
32% |
|
The Temp | Director | $6.0M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two-Fisted Tales | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Owl |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Stranger Within | Director | - | 1990 |
74% |
|
Child's Play |
Director, Screenwriter |
$32.8M | 1988 |
20% |
|
Fatal Beauty | Director | $10.8M | 1987 |
83% |
|
Fright Night |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1985 |
67% |
|
Cloak and Dagger | Screenwriter | - | 1984 |
62% |
|
Psycho II |
Deputy Norris (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1983 |
17% |
|
The Beast Within | Screenwriter | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Josie's Castle | Leonard (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Walk in the Spring Rain | Boy (Character) | - | 1970 |
83% |
|
Model Shop | Gerry (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Changes | Roommate (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Young Lawyers | David Harrison (Character) | - | 1969 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind the Monsters | Self | 2021 |
63% | 79% | Masters of Horror | Director | 2007 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Director | 1989-1990 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hitchhiker | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Amazing Stories | Director | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Felony Squad | LeRoy Baker (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Al Killian (Guest Star) | 1964 |