Tom Bower

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-01-03 (86 years old)

Deathday

2024-05-30

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 E...

Acting

1993

The Ballad of Little Jo

as Lyle Hogg (uncredited)

2002

The Badge

as Bull Hardwick

1990

Die Hard 2

as Marvin

1998

Poodle Springs

as Arnie Burns

2008

Gospel Hill

as Jack Herrod

2002

High Crimes

as FBI Agent Mullins

2001

Hearts in Atlantis

as Len Files

2009

Crazy Heart

as Bill Wilson

2006

The Hills Have Eyes

as Gas Station Attendant

2008

Appaloosa

as Abner Raines

2000

Pollock

as Dan Miller

1992

Love Can Be Murder

as Mike Riordan

2024

1992

Raising Cain

as Sgt, Cully

1997

2010

The Killer Inside Me

as Sheriff Bob Maples

2011

Session

as Dr. Albert Solomon

1999

2023

We Have a Ghost

as Ernest Scheller

1984

Massive Retaliation

as Kirk Fredericks

1993

Relentless 3

as Captain Phelan

2022

Raymond & Ray

as Harris

1989

Nightbreaker

as Dan Cutter

1995

The Avenging Angel

as Bill Hickman

2013

Out of the Furnace

as Dan Dugan

2006

Feel

as Buck

1997

Buffalo Soldiers

as Gen. Pike

1992

Revenge on the Highway

as Officer Russell Yates

2007

Undoing

as Don

1991

Dillinger

as Captain Matt Leach

2007

Pain Within

as Joseph

2014

13 Sins

as Father

2006

Brothers of the Head

as Eddie Pasqua

1989

Wired

as Detective

1995

1978

2015

Digging for Fire

as Tom the Neighbor

2015

The Ever After

as Father O'Meara

2015

Lamb

as Foster

1988

Promised a Miracle

as Michael Elliot

2015

Runoff

as Scratch

1988

What Price Victory

as Eldon Ray

1979

When Hell Was in Session

as Lt. Jim Norton

1989

True Believer

as Cecil Skell

1998

The Negotiator

as Omar (uncredited)

1989

1987

Family Sins

as Sheriff

1995

Nixon

as Frank Nixon

1988

Lady in White

as Sheriff Saunders

2011

I Melt with You

as Captain Bob

1975

A Woman for All Men

as Construction Worker

1986

River's Edge

as Bennett

1989

The Road to Terror

as Himself - Reporter

1984

Wildrose

as Rick

1993

Shimmer

as Mr. Speck

1991

Talent for the Game

as Rev. Bodeen

1997

The Killing Jar

as Det. Jake Pestone

2017

2019

2006

The Amateurs

as Floyd

2020

1973

Incident at Vichy

as Police Guard

2010

Black Limousine

as Mr. Esteridge

2010

After the Denim

as James Packer

1977

2019

Senior Love Triangle

as William Selig

2020

Two Ways Home

as Walter

2002

The Laramie Project

as Father Roger Schmit

2001

1976

1987

Beverly Hills Cop II

as Russ Fielding

1988

1995

Georgia

as Erwin Flood

1999

Malevolence

as Jim Bradley

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Hurricanna

as Dentist

2006

2005

North Country

as Gray Suchett

1994

Clear and Present Danger

as Clark's Pilot (uncredited)

Production

2020

Fully Realized Humans

as Additional Dialogue

2011

Vegas Baby!

as Production Design

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