Thomas N. Heffron

{{short description|American film director}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Thomas N. Heffron

| image = Thomas N Heffron - Jan 1920 EH.jpg

| caption = From a 1920 magazine

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1872|06|13}}

| birth_place = Nevada, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|05|24|1872|06|13}}

| death_place = San Francisco, California

| occupation = screenwriter, actor, director

| spouse = Emma Susann Heffron

|death_cause = }}

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Thomas N. Heffron (June 13, 1872 – May 24, 1951) was a screenwriter, actor, and a director. He was born in Nevada,{{Citation needed |date=June 2022}} He worked as an attorney and danced in vaudeville before he began his career in film with Thanhousr in 1911,{{cite web |last1=Wollstein |first1=Hans J. |title=Thomas N. Heffron |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/thomas-n-heffron-p185237 |website=AllMovie |access-date=June 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529115243/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/thomas-n-heffron-p185237 |archive-date=May 29, 2022 |url-status=live}} eventually landing him a role with Paramount Pictures a few years later. He left the movie industry in 1922, making all his movies in the silent era.

Heffron directed films for Famous Players studio.{{cite book |last1=Nunn |first1=William Curtis |title=Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen |date=1981 |publisher=TCU Press |isbn=978-0-912646-69-5 |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_2Gn0a5GlkC&dq=%22Thomas+N.+Heffron%22&pg=PA178 |language=en}}

He died in 1951 at the age of 79 in San Francisco, California.