Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 3, 1938
Place of Birth:
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Tom Bower
Biography
Tom Bower (born January 1938) is an American actor who has appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles from 1973 to present. He played physician-husband Curt on The Waltons. He has held a number of prominent supporting roles including Dan Miller in the 2000 film Pollock and the gas station attendant in the 2006 film The Hills Have Eyes. He also plays the barkeep in the Battlestar Galactica episode, "Taking a Break from All Your Worries". He has also had many notable roles in films such as River's Edge, Beverly Hills Cop II, Die Hard 2, Clear and Present Danger, Nixon, and The Negotiator. His 2008-09 roles include Appaloosa, with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, Gospel Hill, with Danny Glover and Angela Bassett, as well as playing Pat McDonough, the father of Nicolas Cage's character, in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Sheriff Bob Maples in The Killer Inside Me, with Casey Affleck, and Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. Bower is also an award-winning stage actor.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Double Down South | Old Nick |
| 2023 | We Have a Ghost | Ernest Scheller |
| 2022 | Raymond & Ray | Harris |
| 2020 | Fully Realized Humans | Richard |
| 2020 | Two Ways Home | Walter |
| 2019 | Light of My Life | Tom |
| 2019 | Making a Deal with the Devil | MacGivens |
| 2019 | The Last Big Save | Robert |
| 2019 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Lou |
| 2019 | Senior Love Triangle | William Selig |
| 2017 | As You Like It | Jaques |
| 2015 | Digging for Fire | Tom the Neighbor |
| 2015 | The Ever After | Father O'Meara |
| 2015 | Lamb | Foster |
| 2015 | Runoff | Scratch |
| 2014 | 13 Sins | Father |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Dan Dugan |
| 2013 | Dark Around the Stars | Silky |
| 2011 | Session | Dr. Albert Solomon |
| 2011 | I Melt with You | Captain Bob |
| 2010 | The Killer Inside Me | Sheriff Bob Maples |
| 2010 | Black Limousine | Mr. Esteridge |
| 2010 | After the Denim | James Packer |
| 2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans | Pat McDonagh |
| 2009 | Crazy Heart | Bill Wilson |
| 2008 | Gospel Hill | Jack Herrod |
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Abner Raines |
| 2008 | Familiar Strangers | |
| 2007 | Undoing | Don |
| 2007 | Pain Within | Joseph |
| 2006 | The Hills Have Eyes | Gas Station Attendant |
| 2006 | Feel | Buck |
| 2006 | Brothers of the Head | Eddie Pasqua |
| 2006 | The Amateurs | Floyd |
| 2006 | Flannel Pajamas | Bill |
| 2005 | North Country | Gray Suchett |
| 2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story | Tom Fender |
| 2002 | The Badge | Bull Hardwick |
| 2002 | High Crimes | FBI Agent Mullins |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project | Father Roger Schmit |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Len Files |
| 2001 | Going Greek | Bill |
| 2000 | The Million Dollar Hotel | Hector |
| 2000 | Pollock | Dan Miller |
| 1999 | A Slipping Down Life | Mr. Decker |
| 1999 | Malevolence | Jim Bradley |
| 1998 | Poodle Springs | Arnie Burns |
| 1998 | The Negotiator | Omar (uncredited) |
| 1998 | Monday After the Miracle | Uncle Ed |
| 1997 | Follow Me Home | Larry |
| 1997 | Buffalo Soldiers | Gen. Pike |
| 1997 | The Killing Jar | Det. Jake Pestone |
| 1996 | Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal | Marshall |
| 1995 | Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog | John Gale |
| 1995 | The Avenging Angel | Bill Hickman |
| 1995 | White Man's Burden | Stanley |
| 1995 | Nixon | Frank Nixon |
| 1995 | Georgia | Erwin Flood |
| 1994 | Against the Wall | Ed |
| 1994 | Clear and Present Danger | Clark's Pilot (uncredited) |
| 1993 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Lyle Hogg (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Relentless 3 | Captain Phelan |
| 1993 | Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde | Peter Baker |
| 1993 | Shimmer | Mr. Speck |
| 1992 | Love Can Be Murder | Mike Riordan |
| 1992 | Raising Cain | Sgt, Cully |
| 1992 | Revenge on the Highway | Officer Russell Yates |
| 1991 | Dillinger | Captain Matt Leach |
| 1991 | Talent for the Game | Rev. Bodeen |
| 1990 | Die Hard 2 | Marvin |
| 1989 | Nightbreaker | Dan Cutter |
| 1989 | Wired | Detective |
| 1989 | True Believer | Cecil Skell |
| 1989 | Desperado: The Outlaw Wars | Billy Dobbs |
| 1989 | The Road to Terror | Himself - Reporter |
| 1988 | Promised a Miracle | Michael Elliot |
| 1988 | What Price Victory | Eldon Ray |
| 1988 | Lady in White | Sheriff Saunders |
| 1988 | Distant Thunder | Louis |
| 1987 | Family Sins | Sheriff |
| 1987 | Beverly Hills Cop II | Russ Fielding |
| 1986 | River's Edge | Bennett |
| 1985 | The Lightship | |
| 1984 | Massive Retaliation | Kirk Fredericks |
| 1984 | Wildrose | Rick |
| 1983 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Boone Chate |
| 1982 | Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice | Tom |
| 1982 | Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang | Eli Nugent |
| 1979 | When Hell Was in Session | Lt. Jim Norton |
| 1978 | The Winds of Kitty Hawk | William Tate |
| 1977 | The 3,000 Mile Chase | Richette |
| 1976 | The Commitment | Abe |
| 1975 | A Woman for All Men | Construction Worker |
| 1973 | Incident at Vichy | Police Guard |
| The Spittin' Image | ||
| Hurricanna | Dentist |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ice | Jonah Kreshman |
| 2016 | Goliath | |
| 2015 | Bosch | John Caffrey |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Judge Roger Wettick |
| 2010 | Rizzoli & Isles | Redmond Jones |
| 2007 | Private Practice | Dennis Hoffman |
| 2005 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Pop-Pop |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy | Mr. Schultz |
| 2005 | The Office | Heinrich |
| 2005 | Criminal Minds | Damon Miller |
| 2004 | Battlestar Galactica | Joe |
| 2003 | NCIS | Miller Thompson |
| 2002 | Monk | Bennie Wentworth |
| 1999 | The West Wing | General Barrie |
| 1999 | Roswell | Everett Hubble |
| 1997 | The Practice | John Pierce |
| 1993 | The X-Files | Sheriff Harden |
| 1993 | NYPD Blue | Victor Ugo |
| 1991 | Love, Lies and Murder | Leverette |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Whitten |
| 1988 | China Beach | Archie Winslow |
| 1985 | Misfits of Science | Jeffries |
| 1984 | Crazy like a Fox | Trumble |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Jonathan Bailey |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | C.I.A. Agent Carter |
| 1983 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Marty Torrance |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues | De Petrus |
| 1978 | Dallas | Mancuso |
| 1978 | The Dain Curse | Sgt. O'Gar |
| 1977 | Lou Grant | Lind |
| 1977 | Kingston: Confidential | Vincent Ross |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Mr. Royce |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Officer Hensley |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Jeff Cooperman |
| 1973 | Kojak | Brenner |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Baxter |
| 1972 | The Waltons | Dr. Curtis Willard |
| 1972 | The Waltons | Rex Barker |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Eli Nugent |