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