Tom Bower
Biography
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1938-01-03
Place of birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Cast
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
5.88
The Ballad of Little Jo
1993
5.90
The Badge
2002
5.88
Die Hard 2
1990
6.96
Poodle Springs
1998
5.55
Gospel Hill
2008
4.88
High Crimes
2002
6.36
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
6.75
Crazy Heart
2009
6.91
The Hills Have Eyes
2006
6.44
Appaloosa
2008
6.58
Pollock
2000
6.70
Love Can Be Murder
1992
6.00
Double Down South
2024
5.87
Raising Cain
1992
6.08
Follow Me Home
1997
3.50
The Killer Inside Me
2010
5.81
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
1996
5.00
Session
2011
4.20
A Slipping Down Life
1999
4.11
We Have a Ghost
2023
6.49
Massive Retaliation
1984
3.00
Relentless 3
1993
4.80
Raymond & Ray
2022
6.30
Nightbreaker
1989
6.36
The Avenging Angel
1995
4.95
Out of the Furnace
2013
6.57
Feel
2006
4.50
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
5.19
Revenge on the Highway
1992
3.20
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
6.88
Undoing
2007
3.50
Dillinger
1991
4.70
Pain Within
2007
0.00
13 Sins
2014
6.29
Brothers of the Head
2006
5.70
Wired
1989
3.40
White Man's Burden
1995
5.10
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978
0.00
Digging for Fire
2015
5.10
The Ever After
2015
5.47
Lamb
2015
6.04
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
1993
5.90
Promised a Miracle
1988
3.00
Runoff
2015
5.80
Familiar Strangers
2008
6.17
What Price Victory
1988
0.00
When Hell Was in Session
1979
7.00
Dark Around the Stars
2013
5.50
Against the Wall
1994
6.11
True Believer
1989
6.17
The Negotiator
1998
7.10
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1989
9.50
Family Sins
1987
3.50
Nixon
1995
6.87
Light of My Life
2019
6.41
Lady in White
1988
6.07
I Melt with You
2011
5.30
A Woman for All Men
1975
5.09
River's Edge
1986
6.52
The Road to Terror
1989
7.00
Wildrose
1984
0.00
Shimmer
1993
7.50
Talent for the Game
1991
6.00
The Killing Jar
1997
3.80
As You Like It
2017
3.50
Making a Deal with the Devil
2019
0.00
The Last Big Save
2019
5.75
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
6.96
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1982
2.00
The Lightship
1985
5.30
The Amateurs
2006
5.58
Fully Realized Humans
2020
4.80
Incident at Vichy
1973
0.00
Black Limousine
2010
6.46
After the Denim
2010
0.00
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
0.00
Senior Love Triangle
2019
4.30
Two Ways Home
2020
6.19
The Laramie Project
2002
6.38
Going Greek
2001
4.65
The Commitment
1976
0.00
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
6.52
Distant Thunder
1988
5.60
Monday After the Miracle
1998
0.00
Georgia
1995
5.79
Malevolence
1999
6.00
Hurricanna
0.00
Flannel Pajamas
2006
5.30
North Country
2005
7.25
Clear and Present Danger
1994
6.66