Laughlin, Tom, 1931-2013

LC control no.	no2002044671
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Laughlin, Tom, 1931-2013 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Laughlin, Thomas Robert, Jr., 1931-2013 Frank, T. C., 1931-2013 Christina, Frank, 1931-2013
Birth date	19310810
Death date	20131212
Place of birth	Milwaukee (Wis.)
Place of death	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Profession or occupation	Motion picture actor Screenwriter Motion picture director Motion picture producer Television actor
Special note	Formerly also on undifferentiated authority record: n 77006475
Found in	Wild Bill [MP] 1995: credits (Tom Laughlin) Internet movie database via WWW, May 23, 2002 (Tom Laughlin; sometimes credited as Frank Christina, T.C. Frank, Donald Henderson, Don Henderson, Lloyd E. James, Frank Laughlin, E. James Lloyd, Mary Rose Solti [no publications in LC database]; b. Aug. 10, 1931, Minneapolis, Minn.; actor, director, writer, producer, editor) New York times (online), viewed Dec. 17, 2013 (in obituary published Dec. 16: Tom Laughlin; b. Thomas Robert Laughlin Jr., Aug. 10, 1931, Milwaukee; d. Thursday [Dec. 12, 2013], Los Angeles, aged 82; actor, writer, director, and producer who created the Billy Jack movie series of the 1970s, a low-budget fusion of counterculture piety and martial-arts violence that struck a chord with audiences and became a prototype for independent filmmaking and distribution; also appeared on television) Los Angeles Times online, viewed Dec. 19, 2013 (in obituary published Dec. 15: Tom Laughlin dies at 82; Laughlin founded a Montessori school in Santa Monica. When he decided the political system was hopelessly corrupt, he mounted three quixotic presidential campaigns. After becoming disillusioned with Catholicism, he immersed himself in Jungian psychology, writing books and counseling friends.) <http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-tom-laughlin-20131216,0,6177630.story#axzz2nwgPir7S> His Jungian theory and therapy, c1982: t.p. (Tom Laughlin)
Associated language	eng