Thomas LennonFilmography

Born:: August 9, 1970 in Oak Park, IL
Occupation:: Actor, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of the few members of the New York-based MTV comedy troupe "The State" to hail from the Midwest, Chicagoan comedian Thomas Lennon is also an accomplished screenwriter. Born in Oak Park, IL, on August 9, 1970, Lennon attended New York University as an undergraduate in the late '80s, at a point...Read More

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Murphy

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy stars in this new incarnation of Richard Matheson's classic adventure, this time portrayed with a comic slant in the tale of a magician who must break a shrinking hex that's been thrown on him before he grows so small that he ceases to exist. The Reno 911! screenwriting duo of Thomas Lennon Read More

1/1/12
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson

Synopsis: Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon Read More

5/22/09
17 Again

Actors: Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Perry, Tyler Steelman

Synopsis: A former high school basketball star gets a second shot at life when he's miraculously transformed into a teenager and offered the opportunity to redefine his future. Back in 1989, Mike O' Donnell (Matthew Perry) had it all; not only was the 17-year-old senior the king of the basketball court, but Read More

4/17/09
I Love You, Man

Actors: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons

Synopsis: Engaged to the woman of his dreams yet uncomfortable with the prospect of not having a best man for his upcoming wedding, a successful real estate agent with no male friends schedules a series of "man dates" in hopes of finding a suitable candidate for the big day. Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is just Read More

3/20/09
Reno 911!: Season 06

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Ian Roberts, Niecy Nash, Joe Lo Truglio

2009
Hancock

Actors: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki

Synopsis: A hard-drinking lush finds himself thrust into superhero mode in director Peter Berg's unconventional look at the private life of a crime-fighter. Will Smith stars as the embittered do-gooder whose lifestyle is more akin to a rock star than a role model, and who has grown as disillusioned with his Read More

7/2/08
Reno 911!: Season 05

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

2008
Eden Court

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Stephnie Weir, Christian Finnegan, David Darlow

Synopsis: Thomas Lennon, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Stephnie Weir star in first-time feature producer/screenwriter/director Paul Leuer's romantic comedy drama about a washed-up baseball player who dreams of escaping the trailer park and moving to Australia to live the American Dream. Shroeder Duncan Read More

2008
Balls of Fury

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter, Second Unit Director

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

8/29/07
The Ten

Actors: Paul Rudd, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver

Synopsis: Much of the group responsible for MTV's The State -- including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Joe Lo Truglio -- reunite for this outrageous, irreverent, and raunchy sketch comedy, which skewers the Ten Commandments. In the framing sequences, comedian Paul Rudd Read More

8/3/07
Reno 911!: Miami

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lennie Loftin, Danny DeVito, Robert Ben Garant, Niecy Nash, Mary Birdsong

Synopsis: The bumbling cops of Comedy Central's hit television series take a trip to Miami Beach for a national police convention. After the trip there turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated, the bumbling crew must leap into action when the convention center becomes the target of a biological Read More

2/23/07
The Upright Citizens Brigade: Asssscat!

Actors: Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Will Arnett

Synopsis: The edgy sketchy comedy troupe known as the Upright Citizens Brigade follow the cult success of their TV show with this epic performance. Members Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh start the show with some improv, eventually running through a host of wild sketches that leave no Read More

2007
Night at the Museum

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams

Synopsis: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a Read More

12/22/06
Let's Go to Prison!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Bob Odenkirk's jail comedy Let's Go to Prison, stars Will Arnett as Nelson Biederman IV, the son of a judge who ends up being sentenced to serve time in Rossmore State Penitentiary. During one of his rare stints out of incarceration, career criminal John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) learns of the Read More

11/17/06
Conversations With Other Women

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart

Synopsis: An encounter between two people with a shared past and conflicting futures is played out on a split-image screen in this offbeat drama. An unnamed man (Aaron Eckhart) and woman (Helena Bonham Carter) are enjoying drinks and cigarettes in a hotel room after attending a wedding reception. At first Read More

8/11/06
The Godfather of Green Bay

Actors: Pete Schwaba, Lauren Holly, Tony Goldwyn, Lance Barber, Thomas Lennon

Synopsis: A longtime comedian who has repeatedly failed to break big finds his one last shot at stardom thwarted by his toughest crowd yet in director Pete Schwaba's tale of love and failure on the standup circuit. Despite being singled out for stardom early on in his comedy career, L.A. comic Joe Keegan (Schwaba Read More

3/24/06
Reno 911!: Season 04

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

2006
Herbie: Fully Loaded

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Justin Long, Breckin Meyer, Matt Dillon, Michael Keaton, Cheryl Hines

Synopsis: The world's wackiest Volkswagen is back in action in this action comedy. Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan) is the 18-year-old daughter of Ray Peyton Sr. (Michael Keaton), a once-successful stock car driver whose career is not what it once was. Maggie loves racing and is in line for a job covering Read More

6/22/05
Heights

Actors: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: A handful of New Yorkers find their paths crossing in ways that force them to examine their lives in this contemporary drama produced by Ismail Merchant. Isabel (Elizabeth Banks) is a twentysomething photographer who is supposed to marry her boyfriend, Jonathan (James Marsden), in a month. But Read More

6/17/05
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Actors: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a Read More

4/29/05
The Pacifier

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lauren Graham, Vin Diesel, Faith Ford, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot

Synopsis: The toughest man in the American military faces a new kind of challenge -- looking after four kids in soccer-mom suburbia -- in this family-friendly comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is a former Navy SEAL who was assigned to protect a scientist working on a top-secret Read More

3/4/05
Reno 911!: Season 03

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

2005
Taxi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bündchen, Jennifer Esposito, Ann-Margret, Henry Simmons

Synopsis: An inept cop suddenly gets a new partner in the person of a cabbie with attitude in this high-rolling comedy. Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is a police officer who becomes the laughingstock of the department after a series of traffic accidents cause him to lose his driver's license. One day, Washburn Read More

10/8/04
Starsky & Hutch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Fred Williamson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: Starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the title roles, this kitschy tongue-in cheek action comedy is based on the popular 1970s cop show of the same name. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson) and Dave Starsky (Stiller) are a tough pair of plain-clothes cops who drive a red and white Ford Torino and Read More

3/5/04
Reno 911!: Season 02

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

Synopsis: The whole police reality show genre is savagely raked over the coals as Reno 911! enters its second season. The men and women of the Washoe County Sheriff's Department continue to allow cameras to follow them everywhere, though why they do it is anybody's guess, since the resulting videotapes Read More

2004
Le Divorce

Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Read More

8/8/03
Boat Trip

Actors: Will Ferrell, Artie Lange, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Horatio Sanz, Roselyn Sanchez, Vivica A. Fox, Maurice Godin

Synopsis: Two guys looking for a respite from their bumpy romantic lives find themselves in the midst of a very confusing situation in this broad comedy. Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is a guy who thinks he's found the love of his life in Felicia (Vivica A. Fox), his beautiful longtime girlfriend. Jerry decides Read More

3/21/03
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Actors: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow

Synopsis: Two New Yorkers fight the battle of the sexes to a standstill (without entirely realizing it) in this romantic comedy. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, but in the meantime she finds herself writing for a women's magazine called Composure, where Read More

2/7/03
A Guy Thing

Actors: Julia Stiles, Jason Lee, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Shawn Hatosy

Synopsis: A man trying to save his relationship with the woman he loves finds himself sinking into a quicksand of small lies and half-truths in this comedy. Paul (Jason Lee) is a regular guy who is engaged to marry Karen (Selma Blair); while Paul loves Karen, he's more than a bit nervous around her family Read More

1/17/03
Reno 911!: Season 01

Actors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash

Synopsis: The cinema vérité police documentary parody Reno 911! dispenses law and disorder during its first season on Comedy Central. The season's unscripted, totally improvised episodes follow various members of the Washoe County Sheriff's Department going about their duties, under the guidance of Read More

2003
Reno 911! [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: A group of talented improv players were seen on this Comedy Central weekly, which mercilessly spoofed such reality series as Cops. Heading the Washoe County Sheriff's Department in Reno, NV, was Lt. Jim Dangle (played by Thomas Lennon, who also co-produced), a sexually ambivalent lawman who Read More

2003
Out Cold

Actors: Jason London, Lee Majors, Willie Garson, Zach Galifianakis, David Koechner

Synopsis: Four wacky guys take on a pack of rich stuffed shirts (does this premise sound at all familiar?) in this broad comedy. Rick (Jason London) is a slobby but good-natured snowboarder who is mending a broken heart after splitting up with Anna (Caroline Dhavernas), a girl he met while on vacation in Read More

11/21/01
Memento

Actors: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: A man is determined to find justice after the loss of a loved one, even though he is incapable of fully remembering the crime, in this offbeat thriller. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man who is struggling to put his life back together after the brutal rape and murder of his wife. But Leonard's Read More

3/16/01
Drop Dead Gorgeous

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Brittany Murphy

Synopsis: So how far would you go to win a beauty pageant? That's the burning question of Drop Dead Gorgeous, in which the citizens of Mount Rose, Minnesota gear up for the year's biggest event, the Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant, in which Becky Leeman (Denise Richards) and Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst Read More

7/23/99
Strangers With Candy: Season 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri Blank's (Amy Sedaris) first semester back at Flatpoint High finds the 46-year-old ex-con, ex-prostitute, and ex-drug addict high school freshman attempting to pull her life together. From her initial bid for popularity to her total relapse into drug addition, the first season of Strangers With Candy Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Bogie Nights

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) and Orlando's (Orlando Pabotoy) friendship is put to the test when a new student arrives at Flatpoint High in this episode of the edgy Comedy Central series. Instantly attracted to new arrival Ricky despite the fact that everyone seems out to get him, Jerri quickly caves to Read More

1999
The State: Season 04

1997
The State: Season 03

1996
The State: Season 02

1995
The State: Season 01

1994

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