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Thomas Haden Church

Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church, born Thomas McMillen was born on the 17th June 1960 in El Paso in Texas.
He grew up in Laredo in Texas and graduated from Harlingen High School in Harlingen in Texas in 1979.
He then went on to attend the University of North Texas.
Thomas started in the entertainment business as a radio personality and doing voiceover work.
His big break however came, when he won the role of dim witted airport mechanic Lowell Mather for six seasons on the sitcom called Wings.
He also had a lead role on Ned and Stacey opposite Debra Messing (of Will And Grace fame).
Thomas has had film roles in Tombstone, George Of The Jungle and in George Of The Jungle 2 alongside Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, John Cleese, Chris Showerman and Julie Benz.
Thomas has starred in The Specials with Paget Brewster and Kelly Coffield .
He has also played film villains in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight and Over the Hedge.
Thomas has had small roles in Monkeybone and 3000 Miles to Graceland. He also made his directorial debut in the film called Rolling Kansas in 2003.
Thomas played the part of Jack in the film called Sideways with Paul Giamatti and Virginia Madsen.
Other film appearances include: in Idiocracy and Broken Trail with Robert Duvall and Greta Scacchi.
He played the villain called Sandman in Spider-Man 3 along with Tobey Maguire, James Franco and Kirsten Dunst.
He has also starred in Susan's Plan, Mr Murder opposite Stephen Baldwin, Julie Warner and Bill Smitrovich and in One Night Stand.
Other roles include Free Money, Goosed and The Badge.
Thomas has appeared in Lone Star State Of Mind opposite Joshua Jackson, Jaime King, Matthew Davis and DJ Qualls, Charlotte's Web with Dakota Fanning, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Oprah Winfrey, Kathy Bates and Julia Roberts and has also starred in Spanglish.
He has been in Smart People alongside Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker and Ellen Page.
Other roles include appearing in Imagine That alongside Eddie Murphy and Yara Shahidi and in Bolt with Miley Cyrus and John Travolta.
Thomas has been in All About Steve opposite Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper and NowhereLand.










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Thomas Haden Church - what members say


  • Spider-Man 3
  • Spider-Man 3 review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 2.0 stars Spider-Man 3 13 May 2007
    ...d it’s something the rest of the action struggles to meet The major villain is Thomas Haden Church’s Sandman. The character’s look and powers remain faithful to his comic book or...   Read customer review
  • Broken Trail
  • Broken Trail review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb.................. 3 June 2007
    ...uperb. Print Ritter played by Robert Duvall, and his nephew Tom Harte played by Thomas Haden Church, agree to deliver a herd of 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. Along the way, ...   Read customer review
  • Smart People
  • Smart People review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb............................................ 22 May 2008
    ... both his students and his children. Then his adopted brother chuck (played by Thomas Haden Church) arrives, to borrow money from Lawrence, and to stay for a while. Chuck tries ...   Read customer review

Thomas Haden Church - filmography


  • Another Happy Day
  • Another Happy Day (2011)
    Starring: Ellen Barkin,  Ezra Miller,  Kate Bosworth
    Director: Sam Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the fire of primal, Byzantine family dynamics. It's the wedding of Lynn's son, whom she was deprived of raising because of her acrimonious divorce, and a feud still rages between Lynn and her ex-husband's hot-tempered wife. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 16 members
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  • Imagine That
  • Imagine That on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Thomas Haden Church,  Yara Shahidi
    Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Before he found himself standing in front of his friends' house yelling for his daughter's purple security blanket in the middle of the night, Evan Danielson was just your average financial wizard--focused, successful and driven. But, when his daughter introduced him to the princesses and their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,334 members
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  • Moment Of Truth
  • Moment Of Truth (2009)
    Starring: Thomas Haden Church,  Rachel Harker,  Stephen Benson
    Director: Jake Goldberger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Don McKay, a high school janitor who leaves his hometown after a tragedy, returns 25 years later to rekindle a romance with his old flame, who is dying, but this homecoming brings McKay more than he bargained for.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2 members
    Due for release on 11th June 2012
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  • Smart People
  • Smart People on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Sarah Jessica Parker,  Thomas Haden Church
    Director: Noam Murro
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Smart People stars Dennis Quaid as Professor Lawrence Wetherhold - an imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed intellectual giant. However when it comes to solving problems relating to love and family, he's completely lost! His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 8,580 members
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  • Spider-Man 3 - Blu-ray
  • Spider-Man 3 - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Tobey Maguire,  Kirsten Dunst,  Thomas Haden Church
    Director: Sam Raimi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Marvel comics hero returns for more high-flying fun in this third instalment in the series. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is up to his usual Spidey tricks, attending university classes as an awkward geek, then quickly slipping into his red-and-blue suit to save New York City from various ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 6,159 members
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  • Broken Trail
  • Broken Trail on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Robert Duvall,  Thomas Haden Church,  Greta Scacchi
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1898, Print Ritter (Robert Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church) become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls (introducing Caroline Chan, Olivia Cheng, Jadyn Wong, Valerie Tian, and Gwendoline Yeo). Ritter and Harte's attempts to care ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,251 members
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  • George Of The Jungle 2
  • George Of The Jungle 2 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Cleese,  Chris Showerman,  Julie Benz
    Director: David Grossman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This sequel to Disney's 1997 hit film finds the clumsy ape man from Jay Ward's 1967 television cartoon perfectly content after having married the beautiful Ursula and fathering a child. However, all is not well in George's jungle kingdom because Ursula's scheming mother, Beatrice, has hatched a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,430 members
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  • Lone Star State Of Mind
  • Lone Star State Of Mind on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Joshua Jackson,  Jaime King,  Matthew Davis
    Director: David Semel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Earl Crest (Joshua Jackson) and his girlfriend Baby (James King) plan on taking the money they've saved and escaping from their little town of Bennett, Texas to Los Angeles. But just as they're about to break away, Earl's dimwitted cousin (DJ Qualls), an ex-con, and a money-hungry drug lord ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 383 members
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  • The Specials
  • The Specials on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Paget Brewster,  Thomas Haden Church,  Kelly Coffield
    Director: Craig Mazin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Craig Mazin's self-mocking debut film follows the members of the Specials, America's seventh best superhero team, documenting the drama of their pathetic daily lives. Possessing more flaws than superhuman powers, the egomanical Strobe (Thomas Haden Church) and his misfit group--including ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 253 members
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  • Mr Murder
  • Mr Murder (1998)
    Starring: Stephen Baldwin,  Julie Warner,  Bill Smitrovich
    Director: Dick Lowry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At a hospital, the blood sample of Marty, the father four year-old girl with a head injury, is taken and used covertly in a US Military experiment. It is used to create Alfie, a fearless warrior/solder with no moral judgement. Alfie has a telepathic connection with Marty and will stop at nothing to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 48 members
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  • Don McKay
  • Don McKay
    Starring: Thomas Haden Church,  Elisabeth Shue,  Melissa Leo
    Director: Jake Goldberger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Twenty-five years after abandoning his hometown, Don McKay gets a letter from his ex-girlfriend Sonny saying that she is dying and wants him to come see her. When Don returns home, Sonny doesn't seem quite like he remembers her and everything seems a little bit off. In his darkly comic debut ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7 members
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Thomas Haden Church facts

5 most recent films

We Bought a Zoo - 3.5 stars
Another Happy Day - 2.5 stars
Killer Joe - 3 stars
We Bought A Zoo - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
All About Steve - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

We Bought a Zoo - 3.5 stars
Broken Trail - 3.5 stars
Spider-Man 3 - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Sideways - 3.0 stars
Spider-Man 3 - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Rolling Kansas - 3 stars
Killer Joe - 3 stars
Another Happy Day - 2.5 stars
Don McKay - 3.0 stars
Moment Of Truth - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Chris Mulkey - 3 times - show films
Greta Scacchi - 3 times - show films
Robert Duvall - 3 times - show films
Rusty Schwimmer - 3 times - show films
Gwendoline Yeo - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Walter Hill - 3 times - show films
Sam Raimi - 2 times - show films
Jake Goldberger - 2 times - show films
Karey Kirkpatrick - 2 times - show films
Cameron Crowe - 2 times - show films

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