Tom Cavanagh Filmography

Born:: October 26, 1963
Occupation:: Actor, Producer
Biography:: An actor once christened by the media as the "Breakout Performer of 2000," Tom Cavanagh earned that title largely thanks to his assignment headlining the popular prime-time series Ed (2000). In that seriocomedy, Cavanagh starred as Ed Stevens, an attorney who moves back to his hometown of...Read More

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Breakfast With Scot

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett

Synopsis: A decidedly non-stereotypical gay male couple finds their efforts to keep their personal and professional lives completely separate challenged by the arrival of the gay nephew whose presence threatens to reveal their closely guarded secret in director Laurie Lynd's drama. Eric (Tom Cavanagh) is a Read More

1/1/08
Two Weeks

Actors: Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Lauren Ellman, Julianne Nicholson, Tom Cavanagh

Synopsis: Director Steve Stockman takes the helm for this semi-autobiographical comedy drama about an estranged family that comes together for one last goodbye, and finds their assumedly brief farewell inexorably dragged out for two excruciating weeks. Aging matriarch Anita (Sally Field) is dying, but Read More

3/2/07
Gray Matters

Actors: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Cumming, Molly Shannon

Synopsis: "Sibling rivalry" takes on a whole new meaning in this offbeat comedy from first-time writer and director Sue Kramer. Sam (Tom Cavanagh) and his sister Gray (Heather Graham) are siblings who share a passionate interest in the music and styles of the 1940's, especially movie musicals of the era Read More

2/23/07
Sublime

Synopsis: Admitted to the surgery ward for a routine colonoscopy, forty-year old George Grieves (Thomas Cavanagh) finds himself forced to confront his greatest fear when his surroundings take an unsettling shift towards the surreal. Immediately after awakening from his anesthesia, George is horrified to Read More

2007
How to Eat Fried Worms

Actors: Luke Benward, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Adam Hicks, Austin Rogers, Alexander Gould

Synopsis: The new kid at school faces up to the school bully by taking on a challenge no one has the guts to try in this family-oriented comedy. Billy (Luke Benward) is an 11-year-old boy whose folks have just moved to a new town and is facing the terror of his first day at a new school. It doesn't take Read More

8/25/06
Pittsburgh

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr., Illeana Douglas, Moby, Catherine Wreford

Synopsis: Filmmakers Chris Bradley and Kyle LaBrache co-directed this film that exists somewhere between an improvisational mockumentary and an actual documentary. Starring Jeff Goldblum as himself, the film follows the actor's attempts to put on a production of The Music Man in the titular town. The play Read More

2006
Love Monkey [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Jason Priestley, Larenz Tate, Christopher Wiehl, Judy Greer

Synopsis: Created by Michael Rauch, the hour-long dramedy series Love Monkey was based on a novel by Kyle Smith, though it also owed quite a lot to the Tom Cruise film Jerry Maguire. Tom Cavanagh headed the cast as music agent Tom Farrell, an A&R rep for big-time Goliath Records. After experiencing a sudden Read More

2006
Alchemy

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Sarah Chalke, James Barbour, Nadia Dajani, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: A struggling actress in search of companionship finds her heart torn between an expert in the art of seduction and a computer with the social skills of the most seasoned ladies' man in director Evan Oppenheimer's technologically flavored tale of love in the 21st Century. Professor Mal Downhey (Tam Read More

2005
Bang, Bang, You're Dead

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Ben Foster, Randy Harrison, Janel Moloney, Jane McGregor

Synopsis: Inspired by a play that has been presented dozens of times to middle- and high-school students throughout the United States, Bang, Bang, You're Dead ponders the possible reasons that outwardly "normal" teenagers periodically resort to Columbine-style violence. The focus here is on Trevor Adams (Ben Foster Read More

2002
Ed [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Julie Bowen, Josh Randall, Jana Marie Hupp, Lesley Boone

Synopsis: After making a career in the Big Apple, a lawyer returns to the small Ohio town of his birth in this comedy-drama series from Worldwide Pants Productions, the company headed up by David Letterman. Ed Stevens (Tom Cavanagh) thought his career as an attorney in New York City was going well -- until Read More

2000
Sports Night: The Giants Win the Pennant, the Giants Win the Pennant

Synopsis: Casey (Peter Krause) has quickly worked his way through a string of dates -- per Dana's (Felicity Huffman) request -- and while out on his eighth, he runs into date number one, Pixley Robinson (Megan Ward). Having been somewhat smitten with her since their sole aborted date, Casey approaches her Read More

2000