Tennant, Andy

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Tennant, Andy

PERSONAL

Born in Chicago, IL; married Sharon Johnson. Education: Studied theatre at University of Southern California.

Addresses: Agent—Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann Agency, 9242 Beverly Blvd., Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Publicist—Rogers & Cowan PR, 8687 Melrose Ave., 7th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Career: Director, producer, actor, and writer. Worked as a dancer.

Member: Directors Guild of America.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Dancer, Grease, United International Pictures, 1978.

Dancer, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (also known as Banda de los corazones), 1978.

Babyface, 1941, 1979.

Melio, Midnight Madness, 1980.

Boy Greaser, Grease 2, Paramount, 1982.

Film Director:

It Takes Two (also known as Me and My Shadow), Warner Bros., 1995.

Fools Rush In, Columbia, 1997.

Ever After, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998.

Anna and the King, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1999.

Sweet Home Alabama, Buena Vista, 2002.

Hitch, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2005.

Television Appearance; Specials:

20th Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (documentary), AMC, 2000.

Television Work; Movies:

Coproducer, Moving Target. CBS, 1988.

Director, Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (also known as Solomon's Choice and The Final Choice), NBC, 1992.

Director, Keep the Change, TNT, 1992.

Director, The Amy Fisher Story (also known as Beyond Control), ABC, 1993.

Television Work; Pilots:

Director, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Fox, 1991.

Director, Sliders, Fox, 1995.

Co-executive producer and director, The American Embassy, Fox, 2002.

Executive producer, The ATL, Fox, 2003.

Television Director; Episodic:

"Math Class," The Wonder Years, 1989.

"Sloan Again, Naturally," Ferris Bueller, 1990.

"Operation Kubiak," Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Fox, 1990.

"Parker Lewis Must Lose," Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Fox, 1990.

"Rent-a-Kube," Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Fox, 1990.

"Teens from a Mall," Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Fox, 1990.

"My Fair Shelly," Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Fox, 1990.

"Heartbreak," The Wonder Years, 1991.

"Pyrrhic Lyric," Great Scott, Fox, 1992.

"Satyricon," South of Sunset, CBS, 1993.

"The Orb Scholar," The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (also known as Brisco Country, Jr.), Fox, 1993.

"Brisco for the Defense," The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (also known as Brisco Country, Jr.), Fox, 1993.

Also directed episodes of The Byrds of Paradise, ABC.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Ever After, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998.

Sweet Home Alabama, Buena Vista, 2002.

Television Movies:

Moving Target (from story), CBS, 1988.

What She Doesn't Know (also known as Shades of Gray), NBC, 1992.

Television Pilots:

The ATL, Fox, 2002.

Television Episodes:

Jack and Mike, ABC, 1986.

"Stand-In Deliver," Ferris Bueller, 1990.