Question: Motion pictures featuring who abound and apparently constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre, one of which is played by an American actor known for portraying Randy Taylor on "Home Improvement" ? 

Context articles: National Board of Review
Film genre
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Jill Taylor
Santa Claus in film
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Zachery Ty Bryan
Casey Sander
Cody Burger
Tim Allen

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 for Nestor Film Company in New York City, just 14 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr.'s revocation of moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908.
 The mayor (son of the famed Civil War general) believed that the new medium degraded the morals of community.
 To assert their constitutional freedom of expression, theatre owners led by Marcus Loew and film distributors (Edison, Biograph, Pathé and Gaumont) joined John Collier of the People's Institute at Cooper Union and established the New York Board of Motion Picture Censorship, which soon changed its name to the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures to avoid the taint of the word "censorship".
A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film (namely, serious, comic, etc.).
 Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism.
 The basic genres include fiction and documentary, from which subgenres have emerged, such as docufiction and docudrama.
 Other subgenres include the courtroom and trial-focused drama known as the legal drama.
 Types of fiction which may seem unrelated can also be combined to form hybrid subgenres, such as the melding of horror and comedy in the "Evil Dead" films.
 Other popular combinations are the romantic comedy and the action comedy film.
One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin.
 Written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning, and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly, the film is about the daughter of a struggling musician who forms a symphony orchestra consisting of his unemployed friends.
 Through persistence, charm, and a few misunderstandings, they are able to get famed conductor Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert, which leads to a radio contract.
 "One Hundred Men and a Girl" was the first of two motion pictures featuring Leopold Stokowski, and is also one of the films for which Durbin is best remembered as an actress and a singer.
Jillian "Jill" Patterson Taylor is a character in the TV sitcom "Home Improvement" played by Patricia Richardson.
 Jill is Tim Taylor's wife.
 Jill helps Tim raise their three sons (Brad, Randy, and Mark).
 Jill Taylor has appeared on critics' lists of "top TV" or "most memorable" moms.
 For this role, Richardson was nominated four times for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress – Comedy Series and also received two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus abound and apparently constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre.
 Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas Eve visit to children.
 In 1897, in a short film called "Santa Claus Filling Stockings", Santa Claus is simply filling stockings from his pack of toys.
 Another film called "Santa Claus and the Children" was made in 1898.
 A year later, a film directed by George Albert Smith in titled "Santa Claus" (or "The Visit from Santa Claus" in the United Kingdom) was created.
 In this picture, Santa Claus enters the room from the fireplace and proceeds to trim the tree.
 He then fills the stockings that were previously hung on the mantle by the children.
 After walking backward and surveying his work, he suddenly darts at the fireplace and disappears up the chimney.
 "Santa Claus' Visit" in 1900 featured a scene with two little children kneeling at the feet of their mother and saying their prayers.
 The mother tucks the children snugly in bed and leaves the room.
 Santa Claus suddenly appears on the roof, just outside the children's bedroom window, and proceeds to enter the chimney, taking with him his bag of presents and a little hand sled for one of the children.
 He goes down the chimney and suddenly appears in the children's room through the fireplace.
 He distributes the presents and mysteriously causes the appearance of a Christmas tree laden with gifts.
 The scene closes with the children waking up and running to the fireplace just too late to catch him by the legs.
 A 1909 film by D. W. Griffith titled "A Trap for Santa Claus" shows children setting a trap to capture Santa Claus as he descends the chimney, but instead capture their father who abandoned them and their mother but tries to burglarize the house after he discovers she inherited a fortune.
 A twenty-nine-minute 1925 silent film production titled "Santa Claus", by explorer/documentarian Frank E. Kleinschmidt, filmed partly in northern Alaska, feature Santa in his workshop, visiting his Eskimo neighbors, and tending his reindeer.
 A year later, another movie titled "Santa Claus" was produced with sound on De Forest Phonofilm.
 Over the years, various actors have donned the red suit (aside from those discussed below), including Monty Woolley in "Life Begins at Eight-thirty" (1942), Alberto Rabagliati in "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't" (1966), Dan Aykroyd in "Trading Places" (1983), Jan Rubes in "One Magic Christmas" (1985), David Huddleston in "" (1985), Jonathan Taylor Thomas in "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (1998), and Ed Asner in "Elf" (2003).
 Later films about Santa vary, but can be divided into the following themes.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas ("né" Weiss; September 8, 1981) is an American actor, voice actor, and director.
 He is known for portraying Randy Taylor on "Home Improvement" and voicing young Simba in Disney's 1994 film "The Lion King".
Zachery Ty Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor and producer best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom "Home Improvement".
Clinton O. "Casey" Sander (born July 6, 1956) is an American actor known as the character "Captain" Jimmy Wennick on the short-lived TV series "Tucker".
 His television credits also include "Criminal Minds", "The Golden Girls","Grace Under Fire", "Home Improvement", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Rules of Engagement", "Sons of Anarchy", "Mad Men", "Silicon Valley", "The Newsroom", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (on which he portrayed the father of Xander Harris), "Hunter", and "Marvin Marvin", among other shows.
 He has a recurring role on the TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" as Bernadette's father, Mike.
Cody Michael Burger (born August 4, 1983) is an American former child actor whose noteworthy acting credentials include portraying Cousin Rocky Johnson in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989), an appearance on the hit television program "Home Improvement" (1991), Mel Gibson's vehicle "Forever Young" (1992), and most recently, several lines delivered alongside Ben Stiller in Disney's "Heavyweights" (1995).
Timothy Allen Dick (born June 13, 1953), better known as Tim Allen, is an American actor and comedian.
 He is known for his television roles as Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on the television show "Home Improvement" (1991–1999), and Mike Baxter on the television series "Last Man Standing" (2011-2017); as well as voicing Buzz Lightyear in the "Toy Story franchise" since 1995, and as Scott Calvin/Santa Claus in "The Santa Clause trilogy" (1994-2006).
 Allen's other films include "For Richer or Poorer" (1997), "Jungle 2 Jungle" (1997), "Galaxy Quest" (1999), "Big Trouble" (2002), "Christmas with the Kranks" (2004), "The Shaggy Dog" (2006), "Redbelt" (2008), and "Crazy on the Outside" (2010).