Tom Bower

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.

Double Down South
2024
Old Nick
We Have a Ghost
2023
Ernest Scheller
Raymond & Ray
2022
Harris
Fully Realized Humans
2020
Additional Dialogue
Two Ways Home
2020
Walter
Light of My Life
2019
Tom
Making a Deal with the Devil
2019
MacGivens
The Last Big Save
2019
Robert
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
Lou
Senior Love Triangle
2019
William Selig
As You Like It
2017
Jaques
Digging for Fire
2015
Tom the Neighbor
The Ever After
2015
Father O'Meara
Lamb
2015
Foster
Runoff
2015
Scratch
13 Sins
2014
Father
Out of the Furnace
2013
Dan Dugan
Dark Around the Stars
2013
Silky
Vegas Baby!
2011
Production Design
Session
2011
Dr. Albert Solomon
I Melt with You
2011
Captain Bob
The Killer Inside Me
2010
Sheriff Bob Maples
Black Limousine
2010
Mr. Esteridge
After the Denim
2010
James Packer
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
Pat McDonagh
Crazy Heart
2009
Bill Wilson
Gospel Hill
2008
Jack Herrod
Appaloosa
2008
Abner Raines
Familiar Strangers
2008
Undoing
2007
Don
Pain Within
2007
Joseph
The Hills Have Eyes
2006
Gas Station Attendant
Feel
2006
Buck
Brothers of the Head
2006
Eddie Pasqua
The Amateurs
2006
Floyd
Flannel Pajamas
2006
Bill
North Country
2005
Gray Suchett
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
Tom Fender
The Badge
2002
Bull Hardwick
High Crimes
2002
FBI Agent Mullins
The Laramie Project
2002
Father Roger Schmit
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
Len Files
Going Greek
2001
Bill
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
Hector
Pollock
2000
Dan Miller
A Slipping Down Life
1999
Mr. Decker
Malevolence
1999
Jim Bradley
Poodle Springs
1998
Arnie Burns
The Negotiator
1998
Omar (uncredited)
Monday After the Miracle
1998
Uncle Ed
Follow Me Home
1997
Larry
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
Gen. Pike
The Killing Jar
1997
Det. Jake Pestone
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
1996
Marshall
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
1995
John Gale
The Avenging Angel
1995
Bill Hickman
White Man's Burden
1995
Stanley
Nixon
1995
Frank Nixon
Georgia
1995
Erwin Flood
Against the Wall
1994
Ed
Clear and Present Danger
1994
Clark's Pilot (uncredited)
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
Lyle Hogg (uncredited)
Relentless 3
1993
Captain Phelan
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
1993
Peter Baker
Shimmer
1993
Mr. Speck
Love Can Be Murder
1992
Mike Riordan
Raising Cain
1992
Sgt, Cully
Revenge on the Highway
1992
Officer Russell Yates
Dillinger
1991
Captain Matt Leach
Talent for the Game
1991
Rev. Bodeen
Die Hard 2
1990
Marvin
Nightbreaker
1989
Dan Cutter
Wired
1989
Detective
True Believer
1989
Cecil Skell
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1989
Billy Dobbs
The Road to Terror
1989
Himself - Reporter
Promised a Miracle
1988
Michael Elliot
What Price Victory
1988
Eldon Ray
Lady in White
1988
Sheriff Saunders
Distant Thunder
1988
Louis
Family Sins
1987
Sheriff
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
Russ Fielding
River's Edge
1986
Bennett
The Lightship
1985
Massive Retaliation
1984
Kirk Fredericks
Wildrose
1984
Rick
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
Boone Chate
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
Eli Nugent
When Hell Was in Session
1979
Lt. Jim Norton
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978
William Tate
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
Richette
The Commitment
1976
Abe
A Woman for All Men
1975
Construction Worker
Incident at Vichy
1973
Police Guard
Hurricanna

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