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                            Introduction
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Thomas "Tom" Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel
'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876). He appears in three other
novels by Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884), 'Tom Sawyer
Abroad' (1894), and 'Tom Sawyer, Detective' (1896).

Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, 'Huck
and Tom Among the Indians', 'Schoolhouse Hill', and 'Tom Sawyer's
Conspiracy'. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously
published, only 'Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy' has a complete plot, as
Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few
chapters. It is set in the 1840s along the Mississippi. Tom Sawyer is
around 12 to 13 years old.


                            Inspiration
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The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and
flamboyant chief named Tom Sawyer, with whom Twain was acquainted in
San Francisco, California, while Twain (which was the assumed pen-name
of the author born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was employed as a
reporter at 'The San Francisco Call'. Twain used to listen to Sawyer
tell stories of his youth: "Sam, he would listen to these pranks of
mine with great interest and he'd occasionally take 'em down in his
notebook. One day he says to me: 'I am going to put you between the
covers of a book some of these days, Tom.' 'Go ahead, Sam,' I said,
'but don't disgrace my name. Twain himself said the character sprang
from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in
1907), William Bowen (who died in 1893) and Twain; however Twain later
changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his
imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, "The great appropriator
liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile
mind."


                             Portrayals
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Actors who have portrayed Tom Sawyer in films and TV:
Name    Date
!Notes
Jack     1917    Film, 'Tom Sawyer'
Gordon   1920    Film, 'Huckleberry Finn'
Jackie   1930, 1931      Films, 'Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn'
Tommy Kelly      1938    Film, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'
Billy Cook       1938    Film, 'Tom Sawyer, Detective'
Michael Miller   1944    Film, 'The Adventures of Mark Twain'
Robert Hyatt     1955    Film, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
John Sharpe      1956    TV musical, 'Tom Sawyer'
Kevin    1968   TV series, 'The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
Roland Demongeot         1968    Romanian/French/German TV series 'Les
Aventures de Tom Sawyer'/'Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer'
Johnny   1973    Film, 'Tom Sawyer'
Don      1975    Film, 'Huckleberry Finn'
Sam      1979    TV series, 'Huckleberry Finn and His Friends'
Patrick          1981    TV film, 'Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures
of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn'
Fyodor Stukov    1981    Soviet three-episode TV miniseries, 'The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn'
Chris Ritchie    1985    Film, 'The Adventures of Mark Twain'
Eugene Oakes     1986    TV series, 'American Playhouse Series 5':
'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' parts I, II, III and IV
Raphael          1990    TV film, 'Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn'
Jonathan Taylor          1995    Film, 'Tom and Huck'
Rhett    2000   Voice, animated musical film, 'Tom Sawyer'
Grey     2003   Voice, animated TV series, 'The Fairly OddParents'
Shane    2003   Film, 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'
Louis    2011, 2012      Film, 'Tom Sawyer)', 'Die Abenteuer des Huck
Finn'
Joel     2014    Film, 'Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn'
Adam     2015    Film, 'Band of Robbers'
Jeremy   2015   3DS game 'Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.'
Reilly Jacob     2016   TV series 'Once Upon a Time'


                           External links
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*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'
by Mark Twain] at Project Gutenberg
*[https://archive.org/details/tom_sawyer_librivox 'The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain] at Archive.org


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