Tom Sawyer may refer to:

Literature

Tom Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). For a character profile, see Tom Sawyer. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in St. ... Mark Twains series of books featuring the fictional character Tom Sawyer include: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896) Tom Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse...

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894).
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in St. ... Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. ... Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. ... Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. ...

Adaptations of the character by other authors

• Tom Sawyer, Avenger (2000) by T. W. Fuller.

Tom Sawyer, Avenger, by T. W. Fuller, is a 2000 novel that follows the adventures of Mark Twains beloved character, Tom Sawyer, and reintroduces Becky Thatcher. ...

Film

• Tom Sawyer (1907 film), a 1907 silent film produced by Kalem Studios
• Tom Sawyer (1917 film), a 1917 silent produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by William Desmond Taylor, and starring Jack Pickford.
• Tom Sawyer (1930 film), a 1930 film starring Jackie Coogan as Tom
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), a 1938 film featuring Walter Brennan in a major supporting role as Muff Potter. The first Technicolor film version of a Mark Twain novel.
• Tom Sawyer (1947 film), a Soviet Union version, directed by Lazar Frenkel and Gleb Zatvornitsky
• Tom Sawyer (1973 film), a 1973 musical film in which Jodie Foster appeared
• Tom Sawyer (1973 TV film), a 1973 made for TV film in which Buddy Ebsen appeared
• Tom Sawyer (1984 film), a Canadian claymation version produced by Hal Roach studios
• Tom and Huck (1995 film), a 1995 film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro
• Tom Sawyer (2000 film), an animated film that featured anthropomorphic animal characters

Tom Sawyer (1907) was a silent film based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer made by Kalem Studios in New York City, and was the first time Twains character had appeared on film. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Kalem Studios and Hollywood staff, 1915 The Kalem Company was an American film studio founded in New York City in 1907 by Frank J. Marion, Samuel Long, and George Kleine. ... Tom Sawyer is a 1917 Paramount Pictures silent film starring Jack Pickford, Robert Gordon, and Clara Horton; it is based on Mark Twains novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner) (April 26, 1872 – February 1, 1922) was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s. ... John Charles Smith (August 18, 1896 - January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor. ... John Leslie (Jackie) Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. ... Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was a three time Academy Award winning American actor. ... Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc. ... Tom Sawyer (1973 film/I) was a popular film version of the Mark Twain boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ... Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. ... Buddy Ebsen (April 2, 1908 – July 6, 2003) was an American actor and dancer, who is best-remembered for his role as Jed Clampett in the popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies. ... The term Claymation is a registered trademark created by Will Vinton Studios to describe their clay animated movies; the more generic term is clay animation, but the portmanteau claymation has entered the English language as a genericized trademark. ... Harold Eugene Roach, Sr. ... Tom & Huck is a 1995 Disney film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Joey Stinson, and Rachel Leigh Cook; it is based on Mark Twains novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ... Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born September 8, 1981) is an American child actor and former teen idol, perhaps best remembered for his roles of middle child Randy Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement and the voice of the young Simba in Disneys The Lion King. ... Bradley Barron Renfro (July 25, 1982 - May 22, 2007) was an American actor, born in Knoxville, Tennessee and was raised by his grandmother. ... This animated version of Tom Sawyer, like Disneys Robin Hood, features a cast of anthropomorphic animals instead of humans. ... Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ...

Stage

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical written by Ken Ludwig and composed by Don Schlitz
• "Tom Sawyer", an American Legend with Music
• "Adventures of Tom Sawyer", an American Legend brought to life
• "Paintin' the Fence", a Tom Sawyer mini musical

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a musical comedy based on the novel by Mark Twain; book by Ken Ludwig; music and lyrics by Don Schlitz. ...

Music

• Tom Sawyer (song), a song by the Canadian band Rush

• Painting the Town (song) by Michael Gregorovich refers repeatedly to Tom Sawyer.

Tom Sawyer is a 1981 song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush named for Mark Twains literary character. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ...

People

• Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer, a British politician and trade unionist
• Thomas C. Sawyer, a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Ohio from 1987 to 2003
• Tom Sawyer (Kansas politician), a politician
• Tom Sawyer (TV writer), a writer for various TV series, including Murder She Wrote
• Tom Sawyer (rapcore), a member of rapcore group Critical Bill

Lawrence Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer (born 12 May 1943) is a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. ... Tom Sawyer Thomas Charles Sawyer, (born August 15, 1945), usually known as Tom Sawyer, is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1987 to 2003. ... Tom Sawyer (born April 15, 1958) is an American politician from the state of Kansas. ... Critical Bill is a rock group signed under Westbound Records and Strange Music. ...

Geography

• Tom Sawyer Island, part of Frontierland in the Disneyland park in Anaheim, California
• "Tom" Sawyer State Park, a state park in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Tom Sawyer Island is a physical island within the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. ... State park is a term used in the United States and in Mexico for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreation, or other reason, and under the administration of the government of a U.S. state or one of the states of Mexico. ... Jefferson County is a county located in the state of Kentucky. ...

Computer Games

• Square's Tom Sawyer, a Japanese role-playing game designed by Square for the Nintendo Famicom
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (video game), a platform game developed and published in 1993 by Seta for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Squares Tom Sawyer ) is a video game for the Nintendo Famicom (known internationally as the Nintendo Entertainment System) game console. ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a video game created for the Nintendo Entertainment System in August 1989 by Seta and was based upon the book Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. ... A simple platform sequence from the game Wonder Boy Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Seta (Full company name Super Entertainment and Total Amusement) is a video game company that made games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and various other systems. ... “NES” redirects here. ...

Other uses

• Tom Sawyer no Boken, a 1980 cartoon by Nippon Animation Co, Meisaku and WMT.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) featured a dramatically different version of the Tom Sawyer character, portrayed by Shane West. In this adaptation, Sawyer is portrayed as having grown up to become a government agent embittered over the loss of his friend and fellow agent Huck Finn

(In "behind the scenes" footage contained on the DVD release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen the writers tell of Sawyer's depiction as a detective in some later Twain novels, notably, Tom Sawyer, Detective as the inspiration for this character's outline). He is taught how to hit targets at a great distance by Allan Quatermain, and develops feelings for Mina Harker, which it is hinted may be reciprocated. The comic version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" did not feature this character, or any other characters of American origin. Tom SAyer as in t he nickelodean show, the fairly oddparents Adventures of Tom Sawyer ) is an anime series directed by Hiroshi Saitô which was aired in 1980. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed compared to the rest of the article. ... Shane West (born June 10, 1978) is an American television and film actor. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggards King Solomons Mines and its various sequels and prequels. ... Wilhelmina Mina Harker is a fictional character of Bram Stokers seminal horror novel Dracula. ...