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McNamara, Tom, 1886-1964


  • [Tom McNamara was a film director, writer and comic strip artist. He wrote titles for silent films, working for Edison, Paramount, Realart, and others. In 1925-1926 he worked as a writer and assistant director on Mary Pickford's Little Annie Rooney and Sparrows. He also wrote and directed Our Gang shorts for the Hal Roach studio, and was the creator of the comic strip Us Boys in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.]

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  • Fuller Name

    • Thomas Joseph

  • Variants

    • McNamara, Tom, d. 1964
    • McNamara, Thomas, 1886-1964
    • MacNamara, Tom, 1886-1964

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • McNamara, Tom, d. 1964

  • Sources

    • found: Little Orphan Annie [MP] 1932:credits (screen play by Tom McNamara)
    • found: Int'l film necrology, 1981(McNamara, Tom; director & author; d. May 19, 1964, age 78)
    • found: LC database, May 22, 2015(hdg.: McNamara, Tom, 1886-1964)
    • found: Lambiek comiclopedia WWW site, viewed May 22, 2015(Tom McNamara; born May 7, 1886 in San Francisco, California; newspaper cartoonist, comic book artist, motion picture writer and director)
    • found: U.S. World War II draft registration cards, 1942, viewed online May 22, 2015, via Ancestry.com(Thomas Joseph McNamara; born May 7, 1886 in San Francisco, California; free-lance artist and writer)
    • found: California death index, 1940-1997, viewed online May 22, 2015, via Ancestry.com(Thomas J. McNamara, born May 7, 1886; died, May 19, 1964 in San Francisco, California)
    • found: Seldes, G. Seven lively arts, c1957:p. 199 (Tom MacNamara; creator of "Us Boys" comic strip)

  • General Notes

    • [Tom McNamara was a film director, writer and comic strip artist. He wrote titles for silent films, working for Edison, Paramount, Realart, and others. In 1925-1926 he worked as a writer and assistant director on Mary Pickford's Little Annie Rooney and Sparrows. He also wrote and directed Our Gang shorts for the Hal Roach studio, and was the creator of the comic strip Us Boys in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.]

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    • 1990-09-07: new
    • 2015-06-12: revised

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