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Thomas Lennon

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Biography

Thomas Patrick Lennon (born August 9, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. Andrei Novak on Santa Clarita Diet and Felix Unger on The Odd Couple. He is the screenwriter of several comedies released by major film studios with writing partner Robert Ben Garant. They wrote the Night at the Museum films, The Pacifier, Balls of Fury, and Baywatch Lennon was born on August 9, 1970 in Oak Park, Illinois. Of Irish and Scottish descent, he is the son of Kathleen (née McSheehy) and Timothy Lennon. He graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1988. At 16, he met friend and future co-star Kerri Kenney at theater camp at Northwestern University. The two later attended NYU, where they joined a comedy troupe called The New Group.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Memento

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Bad Teacher

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Night at the Museum

Screenplay

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

As Thayer

We're the Millers

As Rick Nathanson

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Writer

Secret of the Wings

As Reading Fairy (voice)

Hancock

As Mike

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Imperfect Pedagogues: Teachers in the Grey

From the cracked idealism of Half Nelson to the bureaucratic despair of The Teacher, a chain of films where educators are as flawed as the systems they serve.

7 films

The DVDs That Changed Everything

In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...

10 films

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