Tom Bower

ActorCrewArt Jan 3 (died age 86) Denver, Colorado, USA 1954–2025 (71 year career)

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Biography

Ralph Thomas Bower (January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024) was an American actor who appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles from 1973 to 2023. On television, he played physician Curtis Willard (husband of Mary-Ellen) on The Waltons (1975 - 1978). Bower also appeared in numerous series in guest roles, including Hill Street Blues, The X-Files, The West Wing, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In film, he had prominent supporting roles in notable films such as River's Edge (1986), Bev…

Known For

Film

Die Hard 2

Marvin

Film

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Lou

Film

The Negotiator

Omar (uncredited)

Film

The Hills Have Eyes

Gas Station Attendant

Film

Beverly Hills Cop II

Russ Fielding

Film

Out of the Furnace

Dan Dugan

Film

Clear and Present Danger

Clark's Pilot (uncredited)

Film

Crazy Heart

Bill Wilson

Filmography

Acting (138)

Movies (98)

Hurricanna

2025

as Dentist

Double Down South

as Old Nick

We Have a Ghost

as Ernest Scheller

Raymond & Ray

as Harris

Two Ways Home

as Walter

Fully Realized Humans

2020

as Richard

5.3

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

as Lou

Senior Love Triangle

as William Selig

Light of My Life

as Tom

The Last Big Save

as Robert

Making a Deal with the Devil

2019

as MacGivens

As You Like It

as Jaques

Digging for Fire

as Tom the Neighbor

Runoff

as Scratch

Lamb

as Foster

The Ever After

as Father O'Meara

13 Sins

as Father

Out of the Furnace

as Dan Dugan

Dark Around the Stars

as Silky

I Melt with You

as Captain Bob

Session

as Dr. Albert Solomon

4.2

The Killer Inside Me

2010

as Sheriff Bob Maples

5.8

After the Denim

2010

as James Packer

The Land of the Astronauts

2010

as Mr. Esteridge

6.3

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

as Pat McDonagh

Crazy Heart

as Bill Wilson

Appaloosa

as Abner Raines

Familiar Strangers

Gospel Hill

as Jack Herrod

Undoing

as Don

Pain Within

as Joseph

The Hills Have Eyes

2006

as Gas Station Attendant

Feel

as Buck

Flannel Pajamas

as Bill

The Amateurs

as Floyd

Brothers of the Head

as Eddie Pasqua

North Country

as Gray Suchett

In the Land of Milk and Money

2004

as Lenny Cochran

8.0

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

as Tom Fender

High Crimes

as FBI Agent Mullins

The Badge

as Bull Hardwick

The Laramie Project

as Father Roger Schmit

Hearts in Atlantis

as Len Files

Going Greek

as Bill

The Million Dollar Hotel

as Hector

Pollock

as Dan Miller

Malevolence

as Jim Bradley

A Slipping Down Life

as Mr. Decker

The Negotiator

as Omar (uncredited)

Monday After the Miracle

1998

as Uncle Ed

Poodle Springs

as Arnie Burns

The Killing Jar

as Det. Jake Pestone

Follow Me Home

as Larry

Buffalo Soldiers

as Gen. Pike

Riders of the Purple Sage

1996

as Judkins (uncredited)

5.8

Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

as Marshall

Nixon

as Frank Nixon

The Avenging Angel

as Bill Hickman

White Man's Burden

as Stanley

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

as John Gale

Georgia

as Erwin Flood

Clear and Present Danger

1994

as Clark's Pilot (uncredited)

Against the Wall

as Ed

Shimmer

as Mr. Speck

Relentless 3

as Captain Phelan

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

as Lyle Hogg (uncredited)

5.8

Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde

as Peter Baker

Raising Cain

as Sgt, Cully

Revenge on the Highway

1992

as Officer Russell Yates

Love Can Be Murder

as Mike Riordan

Dillinger

as Captain Matt Leach

Talent for the Game

as Rev. Bodeen

Die Hard 2

as Marvin

Nightbreaker

as Dan Cutter

Wired

as Detective

The Road to Terror

as Himself - Reporter

7.0

True Believer

1989

as Cecil Skell

6.2

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

as Billy Dobbs

Promised a Miracle

as Michael Elliot

Distant Thunder

as Louis

Lady in White

as Sheriff Saunders

What Price Victory

as Eldon Ray

Beverly Hills Cop II

as Russ Fielding

Family Sins

as Sheriff

River's Edge

as Bennett

The Lightship

as "Coop" Cooper

Massive Retaliation

as Kirk Fredericks

Wildrose

as Rick

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

1983

as Boone Chate

6.9

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

1982

as Tom

9.0

Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang

1982

as Eli Nugent

2.0

When Hell Was in Session

1979

as Lt. Jim Norton

7.0

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

1978

as William Tate

The 3,000 Mile Chase

1977

as Richette

The Commitment

1976

as Abe

A Woman for All Men

1975

as Construction Worker

4.8

Incident at Vichy

1973

as Police Guard

The Spittin' Image

Television (40)

Goliath

as Jim

Ice

as Jonah Kreshman

Bosch

as John Caffrey

Ray Donovan

as Judge Roger Wettick

7.5

Mr. Sunshine

2011

as General Mitch Tompkins

Rizzoli & Isles

as Redmond Jones

Private Practice

as Dennis Hoffman

Grey's Anatomy

as Mr. Schultz

Criminal Minds

as Damon Miller

The Office

as Heinrich

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

as Pop-Pop

Battlestar Galactica

as Joe

NCIS

as Miller Thompson

Monk

as Bennie Wentworth

The Guardian

as Ray 'Rufus' Schmiel

The Division

as Bishop

The West Wing

as General Barrie

Roswell

as Everett Hubble

The Practice

as John Pierce

The X-Files

as Sheriff Harden

NYPD Blue

as Victor Ugo

Love, Lies and Murder

as Leverette

Law & Order

as Whitten

China Beach

as Archie Winslow

Misfits of Science

as Jeffries

Murder, She Wrote

as Jonathan Bailey

Miami Vice

as C.I.A. Agent Carter

7.5

Crazy like a Fox

1984

as Trumble

7.1

Hardcastle and McCormick

as Marty Torrance

Hill Street Blues

as De Petrus

Dallas

as Mancuso

The Dain Curse

as Sgt. O'Gar

Lou Grant

as Lind

Kingston: Confidential

as Vincent Ross

Quincy, M.E.

as Mr. Royce

The Rockford Files

as Officer Hensley

Kojak

as Brenner

Barnaby Jones

as Baxter

The Waltons

as Rex Barker

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Eli Nugent

7.8

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Fully Realized Humans

Additional Dialogue

Vegas Baby!

Production Design