Thomas Hedley Jr., (born 1942/43) is a British magazine editor and screenwriter.
As a young editor of Esquire, he edited and published essays by Federico Fellini, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni and Andy Warhol, among others.
A fascination with film led to a number of written and produced screenplays including: Circle of Two, directed by Jules Dassin, Mr. Patman, Double Negative, Fighting Back and most notably, Flashdance.
[2] He has written screenplays for Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Jean-Paul Goude and Sean Penn, among others.
Hedley was born in England, the son of a Canadian military father and his English wife, and was educated at the University of Winnipeg.