---
name: "Tom Wilhite"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/thomas-l-wilhite"
fi1m_id: "thomas-l-wilhite"
imdb_id: "nm0928987"
tmdb_id: 12229
wikidata_id: "Q112898128"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "18 September 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:10:36.107130+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tom Wilhite

## Identity

Tom Wilhite

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/thomas-l-wilhite
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** thomas-l-wilhite
- **IMDb ID:** nm0928987
- **TMDB ID:** 12229
- **Wikidata ID:** Q112898128
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112898128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928987/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12229

Producer. Born 18 September 1952 in Keswick, Iowa, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 18 September 1952, Keswick, Iowa, USA
- **Also known as:** Thomas L. Wilhite, Thomas Wilhite
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 producing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 77 (1), 2010s 79 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112898128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928987/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12229

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Brave Little Toaster*](https://film.one/film/the-brave-little-toaster.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Thomas L. Wilhite, also credited as Tom Wilhite or Thomas Wilhite, is an American film and television producer. He was born on 18 September 1952 in Keswick, Iowa.

Wilhite worked at Walt Disney Productions in the early 1980s, serving as vice president of production and overseeing projects including *Tron* (1982). He left the studio to co-found Hyperion Pictures, where he produced the animated feature *The Brave Little Toaster* (1987).

His other credits include producing *Playing by Heart* (1998), *Bebe's Kids* (1992) and *Rover Dangerfield* (1991), and executive producing the series *Goosebumps* (1995). He has received Emmy nominations and awards for his work in animation and family programming.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Brave Little Toaster* (1987), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-brave-little-toaster.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Frankenweenie* (2012), Fi1m 79, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/frankenweenie.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Frankenweenie* (2012), Thanks — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/frankenweenie.md)
- *Three Way* (2004), Executive Producer
- *The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina* (2003), Producer
- *My Louisiana Sky* (2001), Executive Producer
- *The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas!* (2000), Executive Producer
- *The Sissy Duckling* (1999), Executive Producer
- *We Wish You a Merry Christmas* (1999), Producer
- *Tom's Midnight Garden* (1999), Executive Producer
- *O' Christmas Tree* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Jingle Bells* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Playing by Heart* (1998), Producer
- *Goosebumps: Bride of the Living Dummy* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Goosebumps: The Blob That Ate Everyone* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Killing Mr. Griffin* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Goosebumps* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Bebe's Kids* (1992), Producer
- *The Itsy Bitsy Spider* (1992), Producer
- *Rover Dangerfield* (1991), Producer
- *The Runestone* (1991), Producer
- *The Brave Little Toaster* (1987), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-brave-little-toaster.md)
- *Nutcracker: The Motion Picture* (1986), Producer

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