Tom McLoughlin is an American screenwriter, film/television director and former mime whose credits include numerous television movies, such as Murder in Greenwich, At Risk, Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life, the feature film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Date with an Angel and the 2009 Lifetime Movie Network film The Wronged Man.
In 1977 McLoughlin was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his contributions to Van Dyke and Company, a special starring Dick Van Dyke. Two years later, he portrayed the robot S.T.A.R. (Special Troops/Arms Regiment) in the Disney film The Black Hole. & also played Katahdin in the 1979 Horror classic, Prophecy.