Tom McNamara

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Alias:
T.J. McNamara

Birthplace:
New York City, New York

Thomas "Tom" J. McNamara is a former American Journalist based in Arizona. He was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Fordham University with a degree in Communications and Broadcast Journalism. He soon began finding work as an actor in commercials and radio. He was cast as one of the baseball furies in Walter Hill's Cult Classic, The Warriors (1979). In 1979 Tom got his first fulltime station job hosting PM Magazine at WNEP-TV in Scranton, PA. A year later he moved to Raleigh to join the WRAL team. After leaving Channel 5, Tom held on-air reporting and anchoring jobs in Oklahoma City and Phoenix before making his last move to Tucson in 1997. He was hired at KVOA-TV as that station’s 5, 6 and 10 pm anchor which he stayed until 2014. He has since become a realtor. He married Susan McMullen and they have 3 children.

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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