Andy Tennant

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Andy Tennant (born in 1955) is an American dancer, screenwriter, and film and television director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Don Tennant, a legendary creative advertising talent with Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago. As a boy, Andy spent his summers on Old MIssion Peninsula in northern Michigan and at Camp Minocqua in northern Wisconsin. He graduated from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973. He studied theater under John Houseman at University of Southern California. He is married to Sharon Johnson-Tennant. They have four children, including triplets. Hitch is his highest-grossing film.

1 Films directed by Andy Tennant
2 Television programs directed by Andy Tennant
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Films directed by Andy Tennant

Hitch (2005)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Anna and the King (1999)
Ever After (1998)
Fools Rush In (1996)
It Takes Two (also known as Me and My Shadow) (1995)

[edit] Television programs directed by Andy Tennant

Sliders
South of Sunset
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (two episodes)
The Amy Fisher Story
Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
Keep the Change
Parker Lewis Can't Lose (five episodes)
Ferris Bueller
The Wonder Years (episodes "Heart Break" and "Math Class")

[edit] Trivia

Ever After is the only film that Tennant directed that is produced in Super 35 mm film cinematographic format. It Takes Two and Fools Rush In were produced in spherical cinematographic format. The other films directed by Tennant were produced in anamorphic cinematographic format, but IMDb claims that Hitch was filmed in Super 35 mm film format.

Tennant's first acting role in a motion picture was in 1980 as a high school student, Melio, on an all-night scavenger hunt in a surreal film, "Midnight Madness" which cameo'd cowboy-hatted Pee Wee Herman as a pin ball arcade manager; Andy's first big break in films came when he was cast as a dancer and chorus member in the movies "Grease" and "Grease II." If you watch for him in the first movie, he's the one in the plaid windbreaker, and at one point, is one of several high schoolers oogling up at Olivia Newton-John from under the football stadium seats during one of the musical numbers.