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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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The Million Dollar Hotel | Hector | 2000 |
Die Hard 2 | Marvin | 1990 |
Poodle Springs | Arnie Burns | 1998 |
The Badge | Bull Hardwick | 2002 |
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story | Tom Fender | 2003 |
Gospel Hill | Jack Herrod | 2008 |
Hearts in Atlantis | Len Files | 2001 |
High Crimes | FBI Agent Mullins | 2002 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans | Pat McDonagh | 2009 |
Crazy Heart | Bill Wilson | 2009 |
Pollock | Dan Miller | 2000 |
Appaloosa | Abner Raines | 2008 |
The Hills Have Eyes | Gas Station Attendant | 2006 |
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog | John Gale | 1995 |
Raising Cain | Sgt, Cully | 1992 |
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 |
Massive Retaliation | Kirk Fredericks | 1984 |
Relentless 3 | Captain Phelan | 1993 |
The Avenging Angel | Bill Hickman | 1995 |
Out of the Furnace | Dan Dugan | 2013 |
Buffalo Soldiers | Gen. Pike | 1997 |
Undoing | Don | 2007 |
Dillinger | Captain Matt Leach | 1991 |
The Negotiator | Omar (uncredited) | 1998 |
13 Sins | Father | 2014 |
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Boone Chate | 1983 |
Wired | Detective | 1989 |
The Winds of Kitty Hawk | William Tate | 1978 |
White Man's Burden | Stanley | 1995 |
Lamb | Foster | 2015 |
The Ever After | Father O'Meara | 2015 |
Digging for Fire | Tom the Neighbor | 2015 |
Promised a Miracle | Michael Elliot | 1988 |
Revenge on the Highway | Officer Russell Yates | 1992 |
Runoff | Scratch | 2015 |
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde | Peter Baker | 1993 |
Familiar Strangers | 2008 | |
What Price Victory | Eldon Ray | 1988 |
Dark Around the Stars | Silky | 2013 |
Against the Wall | Ed | 1994 |
True Believer | Cecil Skell | 1989 |
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 |
Feel | Buck | 2006 |
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 | 1987 |
Wildrose | Rick | 1984 |
The Road to Terror | Himself - Reporter | 1989 |
Shimmer | Mr. Speck | 1993 |
Talent for the Game | Rev. Bodeen | 1991 |
The Killing Jar | 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 |
Going Greek | Bill | 2001 |
The Laramie Project | Father Roger Schmit | 2002 |
The Commitment | Abe | 1976 |
Beverly Hills Cop II | Russ Fielding | 1987 |
Monday After the Miracle | Uncle Ed | 1998 |
Distant Thunder | Louis | 1988 |
Georgia | Erwin Flood | 1995 |
Flannel Pajamas | Bill | 2006 |
Malevolence | Jim Bradley | 1999 |
The Ballad of Little Jo | Lyle Hogg (uncredited) | 1993 |
Love Can Be Murder | Mike Riordan | 1992 |
We Have a Ghost | Ernest Scheller | 2023 |
Raymond & Ray | Harris | 2022 |
Pain Within | Joseph | 2007 |
North Country | Gray Suchett | 2005 |
When Hell Was in Session | Lt. Jim Norton | 1979 |
Double Down South | Old Nick | 2024 |
Follow Me Home | Larry | 1997 |
Nightbreaker | Dan Cutter | 1989 |
Brothers of the Head | Eddie Pasqua | 2006 | Series | Cast | Year |
Rizzoli & Isles | Redmond Jones | 2010 |
The X-Files | Sheriff Harden | 1993 |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Pop-Pop | 2005 |
Ray Donovan | Judge Roger Wettick | 2013 |
Love, Lies and Murder | Leverette | 1991 |
The Dain Curse | Sgt. O'Gar | 1978 |
The Rockford Files | Jeff Cooperman | 1974 |
Goliath | 2016 | |
Battlestar Galactica | Joe | 2004 |
Bosch | John Caffrey | 2015 |
Roswell | Everett Hubble | 1999 |
The Office | Heinrich | 2005 |
Murder, She Wrote | Jonathan Bailey | 1984 |
Mr. Sunshine | General Mitch Tompkins | 2011 |
Dallas | Mancuso | 1978 |
NCIS | Miller Thompson | 2003 |
The Rockford Files | Officer Hensley | 1974 |
Ice | Jonah Kreshman | 2016 |
Crazy like a Fox | Trumble | 1984 |
Law & Order | Whitten | 1990 |
Monk | Bennie Wentworth | 2002 |
Kojak | Brenner | 1973 |
Grey's Anatomy | Mr. Schultz | 2005 |