Biography
Thomas Peter "Tom" Shadyac is an American comedian, director, screenwriter, and producer. Although Shadyac had been the youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, he is widely known for writing and directing the films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and I Am. He is an adjunct professor of communication and teaches screenwriting at Pepperdine University's Seaver College. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Brian Banks
2019
Director
An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.
The Thousand Year Journey
2015
Executive Producer
Routine is the enemy of time. Jedidiah Jenkins rides his bicycle from Oregon to Patagonia, the southern tip of South America, while expounding upon id...
Racing Extinction
2015
Associate Producer
An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.
After School Massacre
2014
Thanks
High school history teacher, Ty Anderson, has a minor online communication with a teasing student which finds him immediately fired and snaps him into...
Happy
2012
Executive Producer
Happy is a 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people ...
I Am
2011
as Self
I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and wha...
I Am
2011
Director
I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and wha...
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2007
Producer
Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that ...
Evan Almighty
2007
Director, Producer
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Accepted
2006
Producer
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute o...
Bruce Almighty
2003
Director, Producer
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bru...
Dragonfly
2002
Director, Producer
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
Executive Producer
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...
Patch Adams
1998
Director
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa...
Liar Liar
1997
Director
Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
The Nutty Professor
1996
Director, Screenplay
When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to si...
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Director, Screenplay
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e...
Frankenstein: The College Years
1991
Director
When professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of ...
Jocks
1986
as Chris
When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college tennis tournament in fun-filled Las Vegas, all the...