Tom Gilroy
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6642 |
| Birthday | 1960-08-07 |
| Place of Birth | Jamaica |
| Also Known As |
2008
Dream Boy
6.06/124
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...
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Dream Boy
2005
Shooting Vegetarians
7/2
Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead.
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Shooting Vegetarians
1999
On the Run
5.75/6
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...
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On the Run
1995
Land and Freedom
7.307/296
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...
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Land and Freedom
1998
Claire Dolan
5.522/23
A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
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Claire Dolan
2001
Series 7: The Contenders
6.253/75
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...
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Series 7: The Contenders
1995
Postcards from America
4.5/8
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.
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Postcards from America
1996
Ratchet
4.833/6
Having missed several deadlines, and with the studio's attorneys hassling him, screenwriter Elliot Callahan (Tom Gilroy) takes the advice of his agent...
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Ratchet
2006
Wild Tigers I Have Known
5.837/43
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...
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Wild Tigers I Have Known
2008
The Blue Tooth Virgin
8/1
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...
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The Blue Tooth Virgin
1998
Spark
6.6/5
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...
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Spark
1998
Lulu on the Bridge
5.854/48
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
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Lulu on the Bridge
2000
Bread and Roses
6.31/134
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...
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Bread and Roses
2013
The Cold Lands
5.5/23
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 drif...
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The Cold Lands
2004
Everyday People
6.194/18
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
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Everyday People
2015
The World Made Straight
5.5/60
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...
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The World Made Straight
1991
A Matter of Degrees
4.4/5
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...
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A Matter of Degrees
1987
Arena Brains
5/5
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...
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Arena Brains
2016
Tom's Dilemma
6/1
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.
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Tom's Dilemma
2005
Sweet Land
6.441/51
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
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Sweet Land
2004
Harry and Max
5.531/32
Two brothers, Harry and Max, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other
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Harry and Max
2015
Houses
0/0
A director fumbles through a self-inspired play in an attempt to reclaim his creative integrity.
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Houses
1997
Inside/Out
7.857/7
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...
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Inside/Out
1996
Girls Town
5.55/10
The death of a friend galvanizes three high school young women to reassess their friendship and their lives.
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Girls Town
1997
Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots
8/1
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...
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Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots
1997
Vicious Circles
4.545/11
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...
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