Tom Stern

Biography

Tom Stern is a television writer, director and producer working in Los Angeles, California. While at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Stern began a partnership with filmmaker/actor Alex Winter which lasted eight years. After graduating in 1987, the pair moved to Venice Beach and directed IMPACT Video Magazine. Writing for the Jim Henson Hour on NBC was his first mainstream show business job. He first married filmmaker Tamara Hernandez with whom he had two kids: Tuesday and Murray Stern. In March 2015, he married architect Barbara Bestor.

Directed

1. 2 Broke Girls (2011) — Director
2. Freaked (1993) — Director
3. The Toys That Made Us (2017) — Director
4. Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History (2019) — Director
5. Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget (2004) — Director
6. Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV (1999) — Director
7. Saul of the Mole Men (2007) — Director
8. The Idiot Box (1991) — Director
9. Squeal of Death (1985) — Director
10. Aisles of Doom (1989) — Director
11. Adams (2019) — Director
12. Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come (1990) — Director
13. Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt (2025) — Director
14. Meals on Wheels (1992) — Director
15. Alligator Boots (2008) — Director
16. Alligator Boots (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) — Trenchcoat Man in Heaven (uncredited)
2. Freaked (1993) — Man / Milkman
3. Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History (2019) — Samuel Smith
4. Windy City Heat (2003) — Yurgi
5. This Is GWAR (2021) — Self
6. Saul of the Mole Men (2007) — Beet God
7. The Idiot Box (1991) — Lockjaw
8. Squeal of Death (1985) — Gumbie Weedling
9. Aisles of Doom (1989) — Narrator
10. Meals on Wheels (1992) — Various Characters