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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-01-03 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

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

Acting

2024

Double Down South as Old Nick

2023

We Have a Ghost as Ernest Scheller

2022

Raymond & Ray as Harris

2020

2019

2017

As You Like It as Jaques

2016

Ice as Jonah Kreshman

2015

Digging for Fire as Tom the Neighbor
The Ever After as Father O'Meara
Lamb as Foster
Runoff as Scratch
Bosch as John Caffrey

2014

13 Sins as Father

2013

Out of the Furnace as Dan Dugan
Ray Donovan as Judge Roger Wettick

2011

Session as Dr. Albert Solomon
I Melt with You as Captain Bob
Mr. Sunshine as General Mitch Tompkins

2010

The Killer Inside Me as Sheriff Bob Maples
Black Limousine as Mr. Esteridge
After the Denim as James Packer
Rizzoli & Isles as Redmond Jones

2009

2008

Gospel Hill as Jack Herrod
Appaloosa as Abner Raines

2007

Undoing as Don
Pain Within as Joseph
Private Practice as Dennis Hoffman

2006

The Hills Have Eyes as Gas Station Attendant
Feel as Buck
Brothers of the Head as Eddie Pasqua
The Amateurs as Floyd

2005

North Country as Gray Suchett
Grey's Anatomy as Mr. Schultz
The Office as Heinrich
Criminal Minds as Damon Miller

2004

2003

2002

The Badge as Bull Hardwick
High Crimes as FBI Agent Mullins
The Laramie Project as Father Roger Schmit
Monk as Bennie Wentworth

2001

Hearts in Atlantis as Len Files
Going Greek as Bill

2000

Pollock as Dan Miller

1999

A Slipping Down Life as Mr. Decker
Malevolence as Jim Bradley
The West Wing as General Barrie
Roswell as Everett Hubble

1998

Poodle Springs as Arnie Burns
The Negotiator as Omar (uncredited)

1997

Buffalo Soldiers as Gen. Pike
The Killing Jar as Det. Jake Pestone
The Practice as John Pierce

1996

1995

The Avenging Angel as Bill Hickman
Nixon as Frank Nixon
Georgia as Erwin Flood

1994

Clear and Present Danger as Clark's Pilot (uncredited)

1993

The Ballad of Little Jo as Lyle Hogg (uncredited)
Relentless 3 as Captain Phelan
Shimmer as Mr. Speck
The X-Files as Sheriff Harden
NYPD Blue as Victor Ugo

1992

Love Can Be Murder as Mike Riordan
Raising Cain as Sgt, Cully
Revenge on the Highway as Officer Russell Yates

1991

Dillinger as Captain Matt Leach
Talent for the Game as Rev. Bodeen

1990

Die Hard 2 as Marvin
Law & Order as Whitten

1989

Nightbreaker as Dan Cutter
Wired as Detective
True Believer as Cecil Skell
The Road to Terror as Himself - Reporter

1988

Promised a Miracle as Michael Elliot
What Price Victory as Eldon Ray
Lady in White as Sheriff Saunders
China Beach as Archie Winslow

1987

Family Sins as Sheriff
Beverly Hills Cop II as Russ Fielding

1986

River's Edge as Bennett

1985

1984

Massive Retaliation as Kirk Fredericks
Wildrose as Rick
Crazy like a Fox as Trumble
Murder, She Wrote as Jonathan Bailey
Miami Vice as C.I.A. Agent Carter

1983

1982

1981

Hill Street Blues as De Petrus

1979

When Hell Was in Session as Lt. Jim Norton

1978

The Winds of Kitty Hawk as William Tate
Dallas as Mancuso
The Dain Curse as Sgt. O'Gar

1977

Lou Grant as Lind
Kingston: Confidential as Vincent Ross

1976

Quincy, M.E. as Mr. Royce

1975

A Woman for All Men as Construction Worker

1974

The Rockford Files as Officer Hensley
The Rockford Files as Jeff Cooperman

1973

Incident at Vichy as Police Guard
Kojak as Brenner
Barnaby Jones as Baxter

1972

The Waltons as Dr. Curtis Willard
The Waltons as Rex Barker

1954

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Crew

2020

Fully Realized Humans as Additional Dialogue

Art

2011

Vegas Baby! as Production Design