Tam High in Popular Culture
- Several students and faculty had credited and cameo parts in the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt.
- The Tamalpais Marching Band appeared in the 1969 Woody Allen film Take The Money and Run, while Tam teachers Dan Caldwell and Don Michaelian had small roles as a prison guard and a prisoner.
- Since the late 1960s, the school hosted many live concerts during lunch breaks, after school and on Saturday nights, with performances by local bands such as The Stanley Jackson Trio, Clover, Soundhole, Michael Bloomfield, Cold Blood, Pablo Cruise, and Jefferson Starship.
- David Crosby's song, "Tamalpais High (At About 3)," refers to when Tam classes end for the day, and was conceived while the musician passed the school on the way to recording sessions in neighboring Sausalito, reportedly at The Plant Studios. It was recorded in February 1971 (though The Plant Studios is said to have opened in 1972). David Crosby — guitar, vocals; Jerry Garcia — guitar; Jorma Kaukonen — guitar; Phil Lesh — bass; Bill Kreutzmann — drums.
- 'Sock hop' dance in the 1973 movie American Graffiti was filmed in the Boys (now Gustafson) Gymnasium. Tam graduate Kathleen Quinlan appears in dance and bathroom scenes, as was current Tam High French teacher Brian Zailian (then a 15-year-old Redwood High student), who is dancing in the crowd.
- Don Michaelian, fine art teacher and department chair, appears in the 1973 Clint Eastwood film Magnum Force in the pool shootout scene with Suzanne Somers.
- Stan Ritchie, biology teacher at Tam High in the 1960s and 1970s, had a part in the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as a spa patron taking a mud bath.
- Tam makes a cameo appearance as the wall in the background on the cover of the 1986 album Fore! by Huey Lewis and the News.
- A Time For Dancing, (Davida Wills Hurwin, 1995, Little Brown & Co, ISBN 0-316-38351-1) is set partly in Mill Valley and at Tam, which Julianna and Samantha, the main characters, attend; the movie based on the book was shot in 2000, with limited distribution in Europe, and was released in the United States in 2004
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