Tom Thayer & Travelers Rest Films, Inc.

Travelers Rest Films is a Film and Television Production company.  Some productions include The Great Gatsby with Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens and Paul Rudd, The John McCain biography, Faith of My Fathers, and the HBO adaptation of Dee Brown’s classic, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee was the most Emmy nominated picture in the history of HBO, and was tied for the most Emmy nominated picture in the history of television. It won six Emmy Awards, including Best Picture for 2007, the Critics Choice Award, the PGA and DGA Awards, and the Humanitas.

For Fox Searchlight, Thayer produced Hitchcock, the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock and the making of his classic, Psycho. Hitchcock stars Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson. It was written by the screenwriter of Black Swan, John McLaughlin.

Currently, Travelers Rest works with Dick Wolf in a venture to develop non-scripted programming. There are six series on the air and Wolf and Thayer work with numerous production companies and partners.

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Featured Projects

Homicide: New York

LA Fire & Rescue

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Nightwatch

Cold Justice

Hitchcock

Film & Television

  • Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

  • Nightwatch

  • Somebody Has To Shoot the Picture

  • Sweet Poison

  • Silhouette

  • Murder 101

  • LA Fire & Rescue

  • MURDER FOR HIRE

  • Buried Alive

  • Criminal Confessions

  • White Lie

  • Trapped

  • Psycho IV: The Beginning

  • confessions of a serial killer

  • Andromeda Strain

  • hitchcock

Tom-Thayer

Tom Thayer, Producer, Tom Thayer Television

Thayer was the last President of Universal Television for 6 years, through the Seagram acquisition in ’97. Prior to that, he was appointed the founding President of MCA Television Entertainment, which was MCA / Universal’s premiere venture into cable programming that resulted in “Dream On” for HBO and some 40 pictures for cable television. Since the sale of MCA, Thayer has run his own production company, Traveler’s Rest Films. Thayer’s productions include The Great Gatsby, The John McCain biography, Faith of My Fathers, and the HBO adaptation of Dee Brown’s classic, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.  In 2012 Thayer produced a four-hour adaptation of Michael Crichton’s best-seller, The Andromeda Strain, with Co-Producer Ridley Scott. The Andromeda Strain aired on A&E in May, 2008, was the second highest rated telecast in the network’s history and was nominated for seven Emmy Awards. In 2004, Thayer created and sold Ghost Hunters with Pilgrim Television. Ghost Hunters became television’s longest running and most successful show in the paranormal genre. In May, 2012, Thayer produced a theatrical biography of Alfred Hitchcock for Fox Searchlight. Hitchcock. Also in 2012, Thayer and Dick Wolf started a venture to develop non-scripted television programming. They have six series on the air and work with numerous production companies and partners.

Jack-Thayer

Jack Thayer, Tom Thayer Television

Jack Thayer is an author and freelance journalist. He has written several short novels and political articles. He lives in Portland Oregon.

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Tom Thayer,  Producer, Travelers Rest Films