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
- 2020 · Fully Realized Humans as Richard
- 2019 · El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Lou
- 2019 · Senior Love Triangle as William Selig
- 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 · Lamb as Foster
- 2015 · Digging for Fire as Tom the Neighbor
- 2015 · Runoff as Scratch
- 2015 · The Ever After as Father O'Meara
- 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 · I Melt with You as Captain Bob
- 2011 · Mr. Sunshine as General Mitch Tompkins
- 2011 · Session as Dr. Albert Solomon
- 2010 · Black Limousine as Mr. Esteridge
- 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 · Gospel Hill as Jack Herrod
- 2008 · Familiar Strangers as
- 2007 · Undoing as Don
- 2007 · Pain Within as Joseph
- 2006 · Feel as Buck
- 2006 · Flannel Pajamas as Bill
- 2006 · Brothers of the Head as Eddie Pasqua
- 2006 · The Amateurs as Floyd
- 2006 · The Hills Have Eyes as Gas Station Attendant
- 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
- 2001 · Going Greek as Bill
- 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
- 1999 · A Slipping Down Life as Mr. Decker
- 1998 · Monday After the Miracle as Uncle Ed
- 1998 · The Negotiator as Omar (uncredited)
- 1998 · Poodle Springs as Arnie Burns
- 1997 · Buffalo Soldiers as Gen. Pike
- 1997 · The Killing Jar as
- 1997 · Follow Me Home as Larry
- 1996 · Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal as Marshall
- 1995 · Nixon as Frank Nixon
- 1995 · White Man's Burden as Stanley
- 1995 · Georgia as Erwin Flood
- 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 · Shimmer as Mr. Speck
- 1993 · The X-Files as Sheriff Harden
- 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
- 1992 · Love Can Be Murder as Mike Riordan
- 1992 · Revenge on the Highway as Officer Russell Yates
- 1992 · Raising Cain as Sgt, Cully
- 1991 · Talent for the Game as Rev. Bodeen
- 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 · Desperado: The Outlaw Wars as Billy Dobbs
- 1989 · Wired as Detective
- 1989 · Nightbreaker as Dan Cutter
- 1989 · True Believer as Cecil Skell
- 1988 · Distant Thunder as Louis
- 1988 · Promised a Miracle as Michael Elliot
- 1988 · Lady in White as Sheriff Saunders
- 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 · Massive Retaliation as Kirk Fredericks
- 1984 · Wildrose as Rick
- 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
- 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 · The 3,000 Mile Chase as Richette
- 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
- 1972 · The Waltons as Dr. Curtis Willard
- Future · Hurricanna as Dentist
- Future · The Spittin' Image as