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Revision as of 15:06, 10 May 2023 by 204.193.7.212 (talk) (Making some infromation up to date)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) American author (1947–2013) For other people with similar names, see Thomas Clancy.
| Tom Clancy | |
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 At Boston College's Burns Library in 1989 | |
| Born | Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (1947-04-12)April 12, 1947 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 2013(2013-10-01) (aged 66) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Loyola College (BA) |
| Period | 1984–2013 |
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| Children | 5 |
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Creator of rainbow six seven
Works
Main article: Tom Clancy bibliographyFilm, TV and video game adaptations
Films
| Year | Title | Filmmaker/Director | Source material | Notes |
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| 1990 | The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | The book | |
| 1992 | Patriot Games | Phillip Noyce | The book | |
| 1994 | Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | The book | |
| 1995 | Tom Clancy's Op Center | Lewis Teague | The series | A 114-minute action/political thriller which was edited down from a 170-minute, 4-hour TV mini-series of the same name that aired in two parts on NBC in February 1995 |
| 1999 | NetForce | Robert Lieberman | The series | A television movie based on the Tom Clancy's Net Force series of novels created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | Phil Alden Robinson | The book | |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Kenneth Branagh | Based on characters created by Clancy | |
| 2021 | Without Remorse | Stefano Sollima | The book - token items taken from book - plot very different |
Short films
- Ghost Recon: Alpha
- Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel
Television series
| Year | Title | Filmmaker/Director | Notes |
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| 2018–present | Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan | Carlton Cuse Graham Roland |
An American eight-episode action political thriller web television series, based on characters from the fictional "Ryanverse", that premiered on August 31, 2018 on Amazon Video. The second season premiered on November 1, 2019, following the same eight-episode pattern. It serves as a sequel to the first season, taking Jack on a similar adventure through Venezuela. The third season, aired December 2022, pits Ryan in the midst of a conspiracy involving Russia and the United States. |
Video games
Further information: Tom Clancy'sOfficially licensed games based on The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s for various 8-bit home computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Those included a submarine combat simulation (based on the book) and an action game (based on the film).
More recently, Ubisoft has made many video game series based on Tom Clancy's books or were endorsed by Clancy with his name on the series.
| Year | Title |
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| 1996 | Tom Clancy's SSN |
| 1998–present | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six saga |
| 1998 | Tom Clancy's ruthless.com |
| 2001–present | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon saga |
| 2002–present | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell saga |
| 2008 | Tom Clancy's EndWar |
| 2009–2010 | Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X saga |
| 2016–present | Tom Clancy's The Division saga |
| 2019–present | Tom Clancy's Elite Squad |
References
- "The Hunt for Red October". zzap64.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 2, 2021. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
Further reading
- Baiocco, Richard ed. Readings on Tom Clancy (2003), a guide to Clancy
- Greenberg, Martin. H. The Tom Clancy Companion (1992) excerpt; also online free to borrow
- Keene, Ann T. "Clancy, Tom (12 April 1947–01 October 2013)" American National Biography (2015) online
- Scholarly studies
- Blouin, Michael J. Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Chapter 5: "Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Tree" pp. 147–175. argues that liberal critics misinterpret his "conservatism" excerpt
- Gallagher, Mark. Action figures: Men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives (Springer, 2006).
- Garson, Helen S. Tom Clancy: A critical companion (1996) online free to borrow
- Griffin, Benjamin. "The good guys win: Ronald Reagan, Tom Clancy, and the transformation of national security" (MA thesis, U of Texas, 2015). online
- Hicks, Heather J. "“Sleeping Beauty”: Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor." in Hicks, The Culture of Soft Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. 139-163. excerpt
- Hixson, Walter L. "Red Storm Rising: Tom Clancy Novels and the Cult of National Security." Diplomatic History 17.4 (1993): 599-614. online
- Outlaw, Leroy B. "Red Storm Rising-A Primer for a Future Conventional War in Central Europe"" (Army War College, 1988). online
- Payne, Matthew Thomas. Playing war: Military video games after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2016).
- Terdoslavich, William. The Jack Ryan Agenda: Policy and Politics in the Novels of Tom Clancy: An Unauthorized Analysis (Macmillan, 2005). excerpt
External links
| Works by Tom Clancy | |
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| Ryanverse |
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| Franchises | |
| Tom Clancy's video games | |
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| Rainbow Six | |
| Ghost Recon | |
| Splinter Cell | |
| Ryanverse | |
| H.A.W.X | |
| The Division |
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| Other games | |
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| Media franchises developed by Tom Clancy | |
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| Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell | |
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| Tom Clancy's Op-Center | |
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