Tom Bower obit

 Actor Tom Bower Has Died

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We are saddened to report the passing of our dear friend Tom Bower who died suddenly at home on June 4, 2024 at the age of 86. He has now joined the love of his life, wife Ursula, who passed away just a couple of years ago leaving a gaping hole in his heart! He is now at peace and leaves us with a wonderful legacy of acting performances and advocacy for actor's causes we will long remember!

He has appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles, including Die Hard 2 and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. He appeared in Chris Chan Lee's 2006 film Undoing.

 

Filmography

Film

1976 Two-Minute Warning as Decker, S.W.A.T. Team Member

1978 The Dain Curse as Sergeant O'Gar

1978 The Winds of Kitty Hawk as William Tate

1982 The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as Boone Choate

1984 Wildrose as Rick Ogaard

1984 Massive Retaliation as Kirk Fredericks

1985 The Lightship as Coop

1986 River's Edge as Detective Bennett

1987 Beverly Hills Cop II as Russ Fielding

1988 Split Decisions as Detective Walsh

1988 Distant Thunder as Louis

1989 True Believer as Cecil Skell

1989 Wired as Detective

1990 Die Hard 2 as Marvin

1991 Talent for the Game as Reverend Bodeen

1992 Aces: Iron Eagle III as DEA Agent Warren Crawford

1992 Raising Cain as Sergeant Cally

1993 Relentless 3 as Captain Phelan

1994 Against the Wall (TV Movie) as Ed

1995 Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog as John Gale

1995 Georgia as Erwin Flood

1995 White Man's Burden as Stanley

1995 Nixon as Frank Nixon

1997 Buffalo Soldiers (TV Movie) as General Pike

1998 Poodle Springs (TV Movie) as Arnie Burns

1999 A Slipping-Down Life as Mr. Decker

2000 The Million Dollar Hotel as Hector

2000 Pollock as Dan Miller

2001 Going Greek as Bill

2001 Hearts in Atlantis as Len Files

2002 The Laramie Project (TV Movie) as Father Roger Schmit

2002 High Crimes as FBI Agent Mullins

2002 The Badge as 'Bull' Hardwick

2005 The Amateurs as Floyd

2005 North Country as Gray Suchett

2006 The Hills Have Eyes as Gas Station Attendant

2006 Undoing as Don

2006 Three as Uncle Eugene Parson

2008 Familiar Strangers as Frank Worthington

2008 Appaloosa as Abner Raines

2008 Gospel Hill as Jack Herrod

2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans as Pat McDonagh

2009 For Sale by Owner as Sheriff O'Hare

2009 Crazy Heart as Bill Wilson

2010 The Killer Inside Me as Sheriff Bob Maples

2011 I Melt with You as Captain Bob

2013 Out of the Furnace as Dan Dugan

2014 13 Sins as Father

2014 The Ever After as Father O'Meara

2014 Runoff as Scratch

2015 Lamb as Foster

2018 Light of My Life as Tom

2019 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie as Lou

2019 Senior Love Triangle as William Selig

2020 Fully Realized Humans as Richard

2023 We Have a Ghost as Ernest Scheller

Television

The Rockford Files (1974–1976, 2 episodes) as Jeff Cooperman / Officer Hensley

The Bionic Woman (1976, 1 episode) as Ted Ryan

The Waltons (1975–1978, 26 episodes) as Dr. Curtis Willard / Rex Barker

Lou Grant (1979, 1 episode) as Lind

Barnaby Jones (1979, 1 episode) as Baxter

Hill Street Blues (1981–1986, 3 episodes) as De Petrus / Narcotics Cop

Murder, She Wrote (1984, 1 episode) as Jonathan Bailey

Misfits of Science (1985, 1 episode) as Jeffries

Miami Vice (1985, 1 episode) as detective Carter

China Beach (1990, Season three episode 17 Thanks of a Grateful Nation) as Archie Winslow

Love, Lies and Murder (1991) as Leverette

The X-Files (1999, Season 7, episode 5) as Sheriff Harden

Roswell (1999–2000 Season 1, episode 13) as Hubble

The West Wing (2000, 1 episode) as General Ed Barrie

Cold Case (2005) as Curtis Collins 2005

Monk (2008, 1 episode) as Bennie Wentworth

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–2012, 2 episodes) as Heinrich "Pop-Pop" Landgraf

Criminal Minds (2013) as Damon Miller

Lucky Hank (2023, 3 episodes) as Henry Devereaux Sr.