Tom McNamara (director)

Summary

Tom McNamara (May 7, 1886 – May 19, 1964) was an American film director, screenwriter and cartoonist from the 1910s to the 1940s. He is perhaps best known for his involvement as a director of several Our Gang shorts for the Hal Roach studio, and as the creator of the comic strip Us Boys in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

Tom McNamara
On the Christie Film Company lot, McNamara second from the right

Partial filmography edit

External links edit

  • Filmography and listing of McNamara's comics works
  • Tom McNamara at IMDb
  • The chapter on comics from Gilbert Seldes's "Seven Liveley Arts" which makes mention of McNamara's "Us Boys"