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Birthday: Jan 03, 1938
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA

Tom Bower

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
The Million Dollar Hotel Hector 2000
The Ballad of Little Jo Lyle Hogg (uncredited) 1993
The Badge Bull Hardwick 2002
Die Hard 2 Marvin 1990
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story Tom Fender 2003
Poodle Springs Arnie Burns 1998
Gospel Hill Jack Herrod 2008
High Crimes FBI Agent Mullins 2002
Hearts in Atlantis Len Files 2001
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans Pat McDonagh 2009
Crazy Heart Bill Wilson 2009
The Hills Have Eyes Gas Station Attendant 2006
Appaloosa Abner Raines 2008
Pollock Dan Miller 2000
Love Can Be Murder Mike Riordan 1992
Double Down South Old Nick 2024
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog John Gale 1995
Raising Cain Sgt, Cully 1992
Follow Me Home Larry 1997
The Killer Inside Me Sheriff Bob Maples 2010
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal Marshall 1996
Session Dr. Albert Solomon 2011
A Slipping Down Life Mr. Decker 1999
We Have a Ghost Ernest Scheller 2023
Massive Retaliation Kirk Fredericks 1984
Relentless 3 Captain Phelan 1993
Raymond & Ray Harris 2022
Nightbreaker Dan Cutter 1989
The Avenging Angel Bill Hickman 1995
Out of the Furnace Dan Dugan 2013
Feel Buck 2006
Buffalo Soldiers Gen. Pike 1997
Revenge on the Highway Officer Russell Yates 1992
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez Boone Chate 1983
Undoing Don 2007
Dillinger Captain Matt Leach 1991
Pain Within Joseph 2007
13 Sins Father 2014
Brothers of the Head Eddie Pasqua 2006
Wired Detective 1989
White Man's Burden Stanley 1995
The Winds of Kitty Hawk William Tate 1978
Digging for Fire Tom the Neighbor 2015
The Ever After Father O'Meara 2015
Lamb Foster 2015
North Country Gray Suchett 2005
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde Peter Baker 1993
Promised a Miracle Michael Elliot 1988
Runoff Scratch 2015
Familiar Strangers 2008
What Price Victory Eldon Ray 1988
When Hell Was in Session Lt. Jim Norton 1979
Dark Around the Stars Silky 2013
Against the Wall Ed 1994
True Believer Cecil Skell 1989
The Negotiator Omar (uncredited) 1998
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars Billy Dobbs 1989
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice Tom 1982
Family Sins Sheriff 1987
Nixon Frank Nixon 1995
Light of My Life Tom 2019
Lady in White Sheriff Saunders 1988
I Melt with You Captain Bob 2011
A Woman for All Men Construction Worker 1975
River's Edge Bennett 1986
The Road to Terror Himself - Reporter 1989
Wildrose Rick 1984
Shimmer Mr. Speck 1993
Talent for the Game Rev. Bodeen 1991
The Killing Jar Det. Jake Pestone 1997
As You Like It Jaques 2017
Making a Deal with the Devil MacGivens 2019
The Last Big Save Robert 2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Lou 2019
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang Eli Nugent 1982
The Lightship 1985
The Amateurs Floyd 2006
Fully Realized Humans Richard 2020
Incident at Vichy Police Guard 1973
Black Limousine Mr. Esteridge 2010
After the Denim James Packer 2010
The 3,000 Mile Chase Richette 1977
Senior Love Triangle William Selig 2019
Two Ways Home Walter 2020
The Laramie Project Father Roger Schmit 2002
Going Greek Bill 2001
The Commitment Abe 1976
Beverly Hills Cop II Russ Fielding 1987
Distant Thunder Louis 1988
Monday After the Miracle Uncle Ed 1998
Georgia Erwin Flood 1995
Malevolence Jim Bradley 1999
The Spittin' Image 1970
Hurricanna Dentist 1970
Flannel Pajamas Bill 2006
Series Cast Year
The X-Files Sheriff Harden 1993
Mr. Sunshine General Mitch Tompkins 2011
Dallas Mancuso 1978
NCIS Miller Thompson 2003
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Pop-Pop 2005
Ray Donovan Judge Roger Wettick 2013
Love, Lies and Murder Leverette 1991
The Rockford Files Officer Hensley 1974
Monk Bennie Wentworth 2002
Rizzoli & Isles Redmond Jones 2010
Ice Jonah Kreshman 2016
Crazy like a Fox Trumble 1984
The Dain Curse Sgt. O'Gar 1978
The Rockford Files Jeff Cooperman 1974
Law & Order Whitten 1990
Kojak Brenner 1973
Grey's Anatomy Mr. Schultz 2005
Goliath 2016
Battlestar Galactica Joe 2004
The West Wing General Barrie 1999
Misfits of Science Jeffries 1985
Roswell Everett Hubble 1999
Bosch John Caffrey 2015
The Office Heinrich 2005
Murder, She Wrote Jonathan Bailey 1984
The Waltons Dr. Curtis Willard 1972
Hill Street Blues De Petrus 1981
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