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Tom Clancy is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer American born on 12 april 1947 at Baltimore (USA)

Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy
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Birth name Thomas Leo Clancy
Nationality USA
Birth 12 april 1947 at Baltimore (USA)
Death 1 october 2013 (at 66 years) at Baltimore (USA)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr., dit Tom Clancy, né à Baltimore dans le Maryland (États-Unis) le 12 avril 1947 et mort le 1er octobre 2013 dans la même ville, est un romancier américain.

Ses romans d'espionnage, du genre techno-thriller ou thriller politique, sont technologiquement très documentés, et tournent autour du milieu du renseignement américain, plus précisément la CIA (à l'exception de Tempête rouge) sur fond de guerre froide ou de terrorisme.

Il a connu un regain de popularité après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, non seulement pour sa description préalable, très vraisemblable, d'un attentat terroriste, dans Dette d'honneur (1994) et Sur ordre (1996), mais également grâce au scénario du jeu Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon sorti en 2001, où il prévoit un affrontement armé de la Géorgie, aidée par les États-Unis, contre la Russie en 2008.

Biography

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. nait le 12 avril 1947 à Baltimore, au Franklin Square Hospital. Après des études en littérature anglaise au Loyola College de la ville, achevées en 1969, il devient courtier en assurances. Intéressé depuis son plus jeune âge par l'armée, il cherche à intégrer l'US Army. À son grand regret, il ne peut participer à la guerre du Viêt Nam car sa vue est jugée trop mauvaise.

Sa passion pour la vie militaire le pousse alors à écrire, durant ses heures de loisirs, un roman inspiré de la mutinerie de l'équipage d'une frégate soviétique, le Storojevoï. Octobre rouge est né. Paru en 1984, il remporte un succès immédiat et est tellement documenté et plausible qu'il est édité par l'Académie navale d'Annapolis. Ce premier livre lui vaut les honneurs du président américain Ronald Reagan qui dit de son œuvre : « C'est le roman parfait ! » (Sur ordre, publié en 1996, sera dédié « à Ronald Wilson Reagan, quarantième Président des États-Unis, l'homme qui a gagné la guerre », allusion à la Guerre froide).

C'est ainsi que débute la carrière littéraire de Tom Clancy qui publie deux ans après Tempête rouge, un roman relatant une guerre hypothétique entre l'Union soviétique et l'OTAN à la suite d'un manque cruel d'énergie fossile en URSS. Suivent de nombreux romans qui complètent la série des Jack Ryan, où l'on peut suivre l'ascension d'un professeur d'histoire navale qui accède au poste tant convoité de Président des États-Unis. Mais le maître du nouveau genre qu'est le techno-thriller ne s'arrête pas là et entame plusieurs séries telles que Net Force, avec l'aide de Steve Pieczenik, où l'on découvre une agence créée par le gouvernement américain qui a pour but de faire régner l'ordre sur Internet, ou encore la série Op Center, où, là encore, nous pouvons suivre les aventures du chef d'une agence gouvernementale secrète chargée de gérer les crises terroristes.

Tom Clancy fait de chacun de ses livres un best-seller. Il est également cofondateur de la société de jeux vidéo Red Storm Entertainment (créateur de Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six…) revendue depuis à la société française Ubisoft.

Il est aussi propriétaire d'une équipe de baseball (Baltimore Orioles) et a tenté de racheter une équipe de football américain (Vikings du Minnesota) avant de se raviser à cause de son divorce.

Il meurt le 1er octobre 2013, dans un hôpital de Baltimore, sa ville natale, d'une insuffisance cardiaque.

La parution de son 17e roman, Chef de guerre, est alors faite à titre posthume pour décembre 2013 aux éditions Putnam's Sons, du groupe Penguin.

Le 14e roman, Sur tous les fronts, a été publié en France chez Albin Michel le 29 octobre 2014. Ce livre avait été écrit avant Chef de guerre et traduit en 2011 par Jean Bonnefoy. Bien que la couverture mentionne comme auteurs « Tom Clancy avec Peter Telep », c'est Telep l'auteur de l'ouvrage. Albin Michel a choisi de publier ce roman après Chef de guerre car il introduit un nouveau héros, Max Moore, qui rompt définitivement avec la saga Ryan.

Best films

Clear and Present Danger (1994)
(Novel)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
(Novel)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
(Novel)
Patriot Games (1992)
(Novel)

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Filmography of Tom Clancy (13 films)

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Actor

The Ghost of Flight 401, 1h40
Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Kim Basinger, Gary Lockwood, Tom Clancy, Howard Hesseman, Russell Johnson
Roles Dutch
Rating57% 2.854142.854142.854142.854142.85414
En 1972, un appareil de la compagnie Eastern Airlines s’est écrasé dans un marécage en Floride. Il y eut 101 morts. Plus tard sur cette même compagnie on dit avoir aperçu le mécanicien et le commandant du vol 401 (Bob Loft).
Swashbuckler, 1h41
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Children's films
Actors Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges, Geoffrey Holder
Roles Mr. Moonbeam
Rating60% 3.000973.000973.000973.000973.00097
In Jamaica in 1718, a band of pirates led by Captain “Red” Ned Lynch oppose a greedy overlord, the evil Lord Durant. Durant has ruthlessly imprisoned his Lord High Justice and mercilessly evicted the judge's wife and daughter. The daughter, Jane Barnet, attempts a rescue with Lynch’s help.
The Killer Elite, 1h51
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors James Caan, Robert Duvall, Burt Young, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Gig Young
Rating59% 2.998792.998792.998792.998792.99879
Mike Locken (James Caan) and George Hansen (Robert Duvall) are best friends and private contractors for a private intelligence agency, Communications Integrity or ComTeg, which handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the beginning of the film, Locken and Hansen are helping an East European defector, Vorodny (Helmut Dantine) escape. After delivering the defector to other ComTeg operatives, Locken and Hansen throw a wild party to relax. The next day, they go to a ComTeg safehouse to relieve other agents who have been guarding Vorodny, the defector they previously helped escape.

Scriptwriter

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, 1h45
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism, Gangster films
Actors Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, David Paymer, Nonso Anozie
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.0991253.0991253.0991253.0991253.099125
After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Jack Ryan (Pine), studying at the London School of Economics, becomes a U.S. Marine second lieutenant fighting in Afghanistan, where his spine is critically injured when his helicopter is shot down. During a lengthy recovery, he attracts the attention of Cathy Muller (Knightley), the medical student helping him learn to walk again, and Thomas Harper (Costner), an official with the CIA who recruits him.
The Sum of All Fears, 2h4
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Politic
Themes Spy films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Philip Baker Hall, Alan Bates, Michael Byrne
Roles Novel
Rating63% 3.1995553.1995553.1995553.1995553.199555
In 2002, a Syrian scrap collector uncovers a large unexploded bomb buried in a field within the Golan Heights, and sells it to a South African arms dealer named Olson (Feore). Olson recognizes it as an Israeli nuclear weapon that was lost when the A-4 Skyhawk carrying it was shot down during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He later sells it to a secretive far-right cabal seeking to impose a white supremacist world order, led by Austrian billionaire and neo-Nazi Richard Dressler (Bates). Dressler's aim is to transform Europe into a united fascist superstate. He intends to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia that will devastate them both.
NetForce
NetForce (1999)
, 2h33
Directed by Robert Lieberman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Actors Scott Bakula, Kris Kristofferson, Judge Reinhold, Anjul Nigam, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Sam Anderson
Roles Story
Rating50% 2.5037152.5037152.5037152.5037152.503715
In 2005, Alex Michaels is deputy head of a new division of the FBI called "Netforce" which investigates computer crime and polices the Internet. When his boss and mentor, Steve Day, is assassinated, the evidence points to Web pioneer and owner of the company Januscorp, Will Stiles, a character said to be Bill Gates' apprentice. Stiles is about to release a new web browser that may allow him to hack into any computer in the world and to gain control of the Internet. Michaels is appointed acting Commander of Netforce, and leads his people on the hunt for Stiles.
OP Center
OP Center (1995)

Directed by Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Harry Hamlin, Kabir Bedi, Deidre Hall, Bo Hopkins, Ken Howard, John Savage
Roles Story
Rating57% 2.869142.869142.869142.869142.86914
In post-Cold War Washington an inexperienced political appointee, Paul Hood (Hamlin), is to head the supposedly obsolete National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) - with an eye to downsizing it. No sooner is he introduced around by Deputy Director Gen. Mike Rodgers (Carl Weathers) than he's in the middle of a crisis: a rogue KGB unit hijacks three Ukrainian based nuclear warheads for sale to the Middle East. National Security Advisor Admiral Troy Davis (Brimley) orders Hood and the Op Center to locate the warheads, verify their location and prepare a viable recovery plan.
Clear and Present Danger, 2h21
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Politic
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about drugs, Political films
Actors Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Miguel Sandoval, Belita Moreno, Joaquim de Almeida, James Earl Jones
Roles Novel
Rating68% 3.4482553.4482553.4482553.4482553.448255
A U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat stops a suspicious yacht, discovering that an American businessman and his family have been murdered by several men operating the craft. The murdered man happens to have been a close friend of the President. President Bennett (Moffat) learns that the man was murdered because of his ties to a drug cartel, having skimmed over $650 million from it. The President tells James Cutter (Yulin), his National Security Advisor, that Colombian drug cartels represent a "clear and present danger" to the U.S., indirectly giving him unofficial permission to kill the men responsible for his friend's murder. When Vice Admiral Jim Greer (Jones) is stricken with terminal cancer, Jack Ryan (Ford) is appointed Deputy Director of Intelligence and is asked to go before the U.S. Congress to request increased funding for ongoing (CIA) operations in Colombia.
Patriot Games, 1h57
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Politic
Themes Spy films, Politique, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais
Actors Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Earl Jones
Roles Novel
Rating67% 3.3993153.3993153.3993153.3993153.399315
Retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Ford) is on vacation with his family in London. They witness a terrorist attack on Lord William Holmes (Fox), British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Ryan intervenes and is injured, but he kills one of the assailants, Patrick Miller, while his older brother Sean (Bean) looks on. The remaining attackers flee, as Sean is apprehended by the police. While recovering, Ryan is called to testify in court against Miller, who is part of a splinter cell of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Miller is later convicted for his crimes.
The Hunt for Red October, 2h15
Directed by John McTiernan
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Joss Ackland
Roles Novel
Rating74% 3.749153.749153.749153.749153.74915
In 1984, Soviet submarine Captain First Rank Marko Ramius (Connery) commands Red October, a new Typhoon-class nuclear sub featuring a caterpillar drive, rendering it undetectable to passive sonar. Ramius leaves port on orders to conduct exercises with the V.K. Konovalov, commanded by his former student Captain Tupolev (Skarsgård). Once at sea, Ramius kills political officer Ivan Putin (Firth), and commands the crew to head toward America's east coast to conduct missile drills.
The Division
Directed by David Leitch
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Action, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Jeu, Films about video games, Films based on video games
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain
Roles Idea

Inspiré par l'opération Dark Winter (simulation d'une attaque bioterroriste) et de la Directive 51 (directive présidentielle en cas de catastrophe majeure), une maladie se propage lors du Black Friday via l'argent, provoquant la chute des États-Unis en cinq jours. Des agents de la seconde vague de la Division (The Division) sont envoyés dans les rues de New York, les agents de la première vague étant tous soit portés disparus, soit morts. La Division est un groupe d'agents tactiques américains du gouvernement qui doit établir une base et « reprendre » New York qui est en proie au chaos depuis la mise en quarantaine de la ville pour stopper la propagation du virus.

Producer

The Sum of All Fears, 2h4
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Politic
Themes Spy films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Philip Baker Hall, Alan Bates, Michael Byrne
Roles Executive Producer
Rating63% 3.1995553.1995553.1995553.1995553.199555
In 2002, a Syrian scrap collector uncovers a large unexploded bomb buried in a field within the Golan Heights, and sells it to a South African arms dealer named Olson (Feore). Olson recognizes it as an Israeli nuclear weapon that was lost when the A-4 Skyhawk carrying it was shot down during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He later sells it to a secretive far-right cabal seeking to impose a white supremacist world order, led by Austrian billionaire and neo-Nazi Richard Dressler (Bates). Dressler's aim is to transform Europe into a united fascist superstate. He intends to start a nuclear war between the United States and Russia that will devastate them both.
OP Center
OP Center (1995)

Directed by Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Harry Hamlin, Kabir Bedi, Deidre Hall, Bo Hopkins, Ken Howard, John Savage
Roles Executive producer
Rating57% 2.869142.869142.869142.869142.86914
In post-Cold War Washington an inexperienced political appointee, Paul Hood (Hamlin), is to head the supposedly obsolete National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) - with an eye to downsizing it. No sooner is he introduced around by Deputy Director Gen. Mike Rodgers (Carl Weathers) than he's in the middle of a crisis: a rogue KGB unit hijacks three Ukrainian based nuclear warheads for sale to the Middle East. National Security Advisor Admiral Troy Davis (Brimley) orders Hood and the Op Center to locate the warheads, verify their location and prepare a viable recovery plan.