Tom Gallery

{{short description|American actor}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Tom Gallery

| image = Tom Gallery - Apr 1921 EH.jpg

| caption = Gallery {{circa}}1921

| birth_name = Thomas Patrick Sarsfield Gallery

| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|11|27}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|8|25|1897|11|27}}

| death_place = Encino, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actor, sports promoter, television executive

| yearsactive = 1920–1927

| spouse = {{plainlist|

• {{marriage|ZaSu Pitts|1920|1933|end=divorced}}
• Lillian Fette (m.1939?)

}}

| children = 3

}}

Thomas Patrick Sarsfield Gallery (November 27, 1897 – August 25, 1993) was an American silent film actor, sports promoter, and television executive.

Gallery appeared in 21 films between 1920 and 1927. Subsequent to his acting career, he became a successful promoter of boxing and other sports.{{cite news |title=Dog Bites Actor, Giving Us Promoter |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Jim|last=Murray |authorlink=Jim Murray (sportswriter) |date=November 14, 1985 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-14-sp-2529-story.html |access-date=December 2, 2014}} In 1944 he ran the day-to-day operations of the Brooklyn Tigers football team while owner Dan Topping served in the US Marine Corps.{{cite news |title=Topping Names Gallery |work=The New York Times |date=April 11, 1944}} After the war, Gallery served as a sports broadcasting executive for the DuMont and NBC television networks.{{cite news |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-28-sp-28704-story.html |title=Pioneer Tom Gallery Dies at 94 | last=Glick |first=Shav |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=August 28, 1993 |access-date=November 14, 2023}}

Gallery was married to actress ZaSu Pitts from 1920 to 1933.