Acting Headshot (2000)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas’ acting headshot sometime after 2000, includes a then-recent list of his acting credentials.

Photography by Greg Henry (?) Sourced from WorthPoint

2000 Norby Walters Oscar Party in California

Johnathan Taylor Thomas at the Norby Walters Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California on March 26, 2000.

At the grand International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton, Norby Walters has hosted an annual Oscar viewing party gathering he calls ‘Night of 100 Stars.’

“It’s a really decked-out viewing party. A red carpet will be laid out with camera crews and paparazzi. Attendees will be wined and dined with a four-course meal, while watching the Oscars on mounted television screens.” (Jewish Journal, 2017)

(Photography by David Keeler via Getty Images)

"Pinocchio" & "Wild America" Teen People (July, 1996)

“The Adventures of Pinocchio” promotion with a mention of the then-upcoming “Wild America” in the July 1996 issue of Teen People magazine. Including quotes from Jonathan.

Listen closely to that cute puppet on a string in the new movie, Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio. “I do the voice of Pinocchio for the whole film,” explains Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who spent three weeks in the Czech Republic filming the movie. “But physically I’m only on screen at the end when I turn into a real boy.”

But don’t worry, for his next project, JTT will be on-screen plenty.

Currently he’s in Georgia filming the action-adventure flick, Wild America, with two other major hotties, Devon Sawa and Scott Bairstow. This doll-alpolooza is about a year in the lives of Marty (Scott), Mark (Devon) and Marshall (Jonathan) Stouffer, three real-life brothers now famous for their wildlife documentary films, “It’s a great story about the brothers when they were kids going cross country in search of wildlife,” says Jonathan. “It has a lot of action but it also deals with a lot of heartfelt issues, too.”

And you die-hard fans will be happy to know, Jonathan will be in practically every frame of the movie. So until Wild America opens next year, guess we’ll just have to be satisfied with the Jonathan look-a-like puppet they made for Pinocchio. “The puppet is incredible,” the actor says with total awe. “I had to sit in plaster for 45 minutes and then they took the mold to make the puppet. It is amazing! When you see the film, you really feel for the puppet. You just want to reach out to him.” 

Funny, that’s exactly how we feel about you, JTT.

1997 "Wild America" New York Magazine

July 7, 1997 issue of New York Magazine.

When Nature Calls

One of the more elegant and reverent nature series in television history, Wild America began as the brain child of the Stouffer brothers, three pugnacious teens who, in the sixties, documented all manner of uncaged, free-roaming wildlife. In the fact-based film of the same name, Devon Sawa, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and Scott Bairstow (left to right) star as the insatiably curious young men who alternately marvel at and flee from their subjects. Opens July 2.

"Speedway Junky" Out Magazine (May 2002)

Speedway Junky 

Executive producer Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting) once again tells a powerful story of overlooked young men in an indifferent society.

Las Vegas promises easy money and glamorous times to the adults who flock there, but what does it promise a kid? In Speedway Junky, Johnny (Jesse Bradford, Clockstoppers, Dancing at the Blue Iguana) has run away from his military family with a dream of racing cars in North Carolina. Naïve and broke, he ends up in Las Vegas, where he meets Eric (Jordan Brower, Texas Rangers, TV’s Teen Angel) and his street gang friends, including brash hustler Steven (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Common Ground, TV’s Home Improvement),

Initially attracted by the party atmosphere, Johnny walks off in anger when he finds out Eric is gay. On his own, he keeps getting in trouble, but Eric always comes to his rescue. Eric offers Johnny a place to live and makes the difficult decision to teach him to hustle. As the two boys become close, they are confronted by a life-threatening situation involving drugs, money and betrayal. 

Bradford is quite convincing as the innocent teen who comes to love his gay friend. Brower, likewise, shines as the kid who hustles because he thinks he must, but is capable of great love and loyalty, both for Johnny and for his “surrogate mom,” a former junky played affectingly by Darryl Hannah (Splash, Steel Magnolias).

And after years of playing the kid brother on Home Improvement, it’s fascinating to see Jonathan Taylor Thomas play a swaggering hotshot who’ll sleep with the male or female who offers the most bucks on any given night.

"Hunks and history" The Advocate (November 9, 1999)

The Buzz

Hunks and history

What do young lookers Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jason Priestley, and James LeGros have in common? They’re all playing gay in Showtime’s Common Ground, a trilogy about gay life in small-town Connecticut that takes our Hunkiest Cast of the Year Award even though it won’t air until sometime in 2000. Mimi Rogers and cute starlet Brittany Murphy are also in the mix, and Ground’s writers aren’t so shabby either: Harvey Fierstein, Terrence McNally, and Paula Vogel are weaving the tales that span three decades à la HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk movies. But it’s former Home Improvement heartthrob Thomas, who also goes bi in the imminent indie film Speedway Junky, who’ll get people gabbing most. Says producer A.D. Oppenheim: “He’ll obviously reel in an audience that may not otherwise tune in to gay-themed programming and will hopefully promote acceptance.” Score one for J.T.T.!

They’re so Grounded: Thomas (left) and Priestley head a gay-themed cable movie.

"Galaxy Quest" Premiere (December 19, 1999)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas attends the premiere of the 1999 film “Galaxy Quest” in Hollywod on December 19, 1999 at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

"Galaxy Quest" starred Tim Allen, Jonathan's TV father on Home Improvement.

(Mary Evans & Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images / Fitzroy Barrett/Globe Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)

1997 "Wild America" Fan Photo

Jonathan Taylor Thomas photographed with fans in Canada in 1997 while on location filming Warner Bros “Wild America”

(Photo: Guilty Kitchen / Facebook)

Live! with Regis and Kelly (November 27, 1997)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas promotes film “Wild America” on Season 10, Episode 63 of Live! with Regis and Kelly, airing on November 27, 1997.

Regis’ wife Joy Philbin sat in for Kathie Lee for the episode. 

Video uploaded by “carborundum1” via YouTube on December 11, 2016.

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien (June 27, 1997)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas promotes film “Wild America” on Season 4, Episode 134 of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, airing on June 27, 1997. Episode titled “James Brown/Jonathan Taylor Thomas.”

Video uploaded by “carborundum1” via YouTube on December 11, 2016.

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"Tom and Huck" Video Interview (1995)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas interviewed in 1995 for Disney’s film of the same year “Tom and Huck.” 

Interview by “take2markTV” on YouTube.

Description reads:

“I sat down with “Home Improvement” star Jonathan Taylor Thomas for the 1995 release of the movie, "Tom and Huck."   We talked about his early professional jobs, being asked for autographs in odd places, and the challenges of his new film in which he co-starred with the late Brad Renfro.”

“Rewind: Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1995 interview on fame, early gigs, & more” 

(Posted by “take2markTV” via YouTube on March 27, 2023)