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.
Acted in
Double Down South
2024
as Old Nick
We Have a Ghost
2023
as Ernest Scheller
Raymond & Ray
2022
as Harris
Two Ways Home
2020
as Walter
Fully Realized Humans
2020
as Richard
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
as Lou
Senior Love Triangle
2019
as William Selig
Light of My Life
2019
as Tom
Making a Deal with the Devil
2019
as MacGivens
The Last Big Save
2019
as Robert
As You Like It
2017
as Jaques
Ice
2016
as Jonah Kreshman
Goliath
2016
Lamb
2015
as Foster
Digging for Fire
2015
as Tom the Neighbor
Runoff
2015
as Scratch
The Ever After
2015
as Father O'Meara
Bosch
2015
as John Caffrey
13 Sins
2014
as Father
Out of the Furnace
2013
as Dan Dugan
Dark Around the Stars
2013
as Silky
Ray Donovan
2013
as Judge Roger Wettick
I Melt with You
2011
as Captain Bob
Mr. Sunshine
2011
as General Mitch Tompkins
Session
2011
as Dr. Albert Solomon
Black Limousine
2010
as Mr. Esteridge
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
as Redmond Jones
The Killer Inside Me
2010
as Sheriff Bob Maples
After the Denim
2010
as James Packer
Crazy Heart
2009
as Bill Wilson
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
as Pat McDonagh
Appaloosa
2008
as Abner Raines
Gospel Hill
2008
as Jack Herrod
Familiar Strangers
2008
Undoing
2007
as Don
Pain Within
2007
as Joseph
Feel
2006
as Buck
Flannel Pajamas
2006
as Bill
Brothers of the Head
2006
as Eddie Pasqua
The Amateurs
2006
as Floyd
The Hills Have Eyes
2006
as Gas Station Attendant
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005
as Pop-Pop
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Mr. Schultz
The Office
2005
as Heinrich
North Country
2005
as Gray Suchett
Battlestar Galactica
2004
as Joe
NCIS
2003
as Miller Thompson
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
as Tom Fender
The Badge
2002
as Bull Hardwick
Monk
2002
as Bennie Wentworth
High Crimes
2002
as FBI Agent Mullins
The Laramie Project
2002
as Father Roger Schmit
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
as Len Files
Going Greek
2001
as Bill
Pollock
2000
as Dan Miller
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
as Hector
Roswell
1999
as Everett Hubble
The West Wing
1999
as General Barrie
Malevolence
1999
as Jim Bradley
A Slipping Down Life
1999
as Mr. Decker
Monday After the Miracle
1998
as Uncle Ed
The Negotiator
1998
as Omar (uncredited)
Poodle Springs
1998
as Arnie Burns
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Gen. Pike
The Killing Jar
1997
Follow Me Home
1997
as Larry
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
1996
as Marshall
Nixon
1995
as Frank Nixon
White Man's Burden
1995
as Stanley
Georgia
1995
as Erwin Flood
The Avenging Angel
1995
as Bill Hickman
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
1995
as John Gale
Against the Wall
1994
as Ed
Shimmer
1993
as Mr. Speck
The X-Files
1993
as Sheriff Harden
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
1993
as Peter Baker
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
as Lyle Hogg (uncredited)
Relentless 3
1993
as Captain Phelan
Love Can Be Murder
1992
as Mike Riordan
Revenge on the Highway
1992
as Officer Russell Yates
Raising Cain
1992
as Sgt, Cully
Talent for the Game
1991
as Rev. Bodeen
Love, Lies and Murder
1991
as Leverette
Dillinger
1991
as Captain Matt Leach
Law & Order
1990
as Whitten
Die Hard 2
1990
as Marvin
The Road to Terror
1989
as Himself - Reporter
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1989
as Billy Dobbs
Wired
1989
as Detective
Nightbreaker
1989
as Dan Cutter
True Believer
1989
as Cecil Skell
Distant Thunder
1988
as Louis
Promised a Miracle
1988
as Michael Elliot
Lady in White
1988
as Sheriff Saunders
What Price Victory
1988
as Eldon Ray
Family Sins
1987
as Sheriff
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
as Russ Fielding
River's Edge
1986
as Bennett
The Lightship
1985
Misfits of Science
1985
as Jeffries
Crazy like a Fox
1984
as Trumble
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Jonathan Bailey
Massive Retaliation
1984
as Kirk Fredericks
Wildrose
1984
as Rick
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
as Boone Chate
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982
as Tom
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
as Eli Nugent
When Hell Was in Session
1979
as Lt. Jim Norton
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978
as William Tate
The Dain Curse
1978
as Sgt. O'Gar
Dallas
1978
as Mancuso
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
as Richette
The Commitment
1976
as Abe
A Woman for All Men
1975
as Construction Worker
The Rockford Files
1974
as Officer Hensley
The Rockford Files
1974
as Jeff Cooperman
Incident at Vichy
1973
as Police Guard
Kojak
1973
as Brenner
The Waltons
1972
as Dr. Curtis Willard
The Spittin' Image
Hurricanna
as Dentist