Tom Bower
Actor
Born January 3, 1938 in Denver, Colorado, USA
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), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Die Hard 2 (1990), Nixon (1995), Pollock (2000), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Appaloosa (2008), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Killer Inside Me (2010), and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). Bower was also an award-winning stage actor.
Filmography
Hurricanna
Dentist
Double Down South
Old Nick
We Have a Ghost
Ernest Scheller
The Real Spies Among Friends
Self
Raymond & Ray
Harris
Two Ways Home
Walter
Fully Realized Humans
Richard
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Lou
Senior Love Triangle
William Selig
Light of My Life
Tom
Making a Deal with the Devil
MacGivens
The Last Big Save
Robert
As You Like It
Jaques
Ice
Jonah Kreshman
Goliath
Jim
Lamb
Foster
Digging for Fire
Tom the Neighbor
Runoff
Scratch
The Ever After
Father O'Meara
Bosch
John Caffrey
13 Sins
Father
Out of the Furnace
Dan Dugan
Dark Around the Stars
Silky
Ray Donovan
Judge Roger Wettick
I Melt with You
Captain Bob
Vegas Baby!
Session
Dr. Albert Solomon
The Land of the Astronauts
Mr. Esteridge
Rizzoli & Isles
Redmond Jones
The Killer Inside Me
Sheriff Bob Maples
After the Denim
James Packer
Crazy Heart
Bill Wilson
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Pat McDonagh
Familiar Strangers
Frank Worthington
Appaloosa
Abner Raines
Gospel Hill
Jack Herrod
Undoing
Don
Private Practice
Dennis Hoffman
Pain Within
Joseph
Feel
Buck
Flannel Pajamas
Bill
Brothers of the Head
Eddie Pasqua
The Amateurs
Floyd
The Hills Have Eyes
Gas Station Attendant
Criminal Minds
Damon Miller
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Pop-Pop
Fathers and Sons
Vito (uncredited)
Grey's Anatomy
Mr. Schultz
The Office
Heinrich
North Country
Gray Suchett
Battlestar Galactica
Joe
In the Land of Milk and Money
Lenny Cochran
NCIS
Miller Thompson
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Sheriff Fender
The Badge
Bull Hardwick
Monk
Bennie Wentworth
High Crimes
FBI Agent Mullins
The Laramie Project
Father Roger Schmit
Hearts in Atlantis
Len Files
The Guardian
Ray 'Rufus' Schmiel
Going Greek
Bill
The Division
Bishop
Pollock
Dan Miller
The Million Dollar Hotel
Hector
Roswell
Everett Hubble
The West Wing
General Barrie
Malevolence
Jim Bradley
A Slipping Down Life
Mr. Decker
Monday After the Miracle
Uncle Ed
The Negotiator
Omar (uncredited)
Poodle Springs
Arnie Burns
Buffalo Soldiers
Gen. Pike
The Killing Jar
Det. Jake Pestone
The Practice
John Pierce
Follow Me Home
Larry
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Marshall
Riders of the Purple Sage
Judkins (uncredited)
Nixon
Frank Nixon
White Man's Burden
Stanley
Georgia
Erwin Flood
The Avenging Angel
Bill Hickman
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
John Gale
Clear and Present Danger
Clark's Pilot (uncredited)
Against the Wall
Ed
Shimmer
Mr. Speck
NYPD Blue
Victor Ugo
The X-Files
Sheriff Harden
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
Peter Baker
The Ballad of Little Jo
Lyle Hogg (uncredited)
Relentless 3
Captain Phelan
Love Can Be Murder
Mike Riordan
Revenge on the Highway
Officer Russell Yates
Raising Cain
Sgt, Cully
Talent for the Game
Rev. Bodeen
Love, Lies and Murder
Leverette
Dillinger
Captain Matt Leach
Law & Order
Whitten
Die Hard 2
Marvin
The Road to Terror
Himself - Reporter
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Billy Dobbs
Wired
Detective
Nightbreaker
Dan Cutter
True Believer
Cecil Skell
Distant Thunder
Louis
Split Decisions
Detective Walsh
Promised a Miracle
Michael Elliot
China Beach
Archie Winslow
Lady in White
Sheriff Saunders
What Price Victory
Eldon Ray
Family Sins
Sheriff
Beverly Hills Cop II
Russ Fielding
River's Edge
Bennett
The Lightship
"Coop" Cooper
Misfits of Science
Jeffries
Crazy like a Fox
Trumble
Murder, She Wrote
Jonathan Bailey
Miami Vice
C.I.A. Agent Carter
Massive Retaliation
Kirk Fredericks
Wildrose
Rick
Hardcastle and McCormick
Marty Torrance
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Boone Chate
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
Eli Nugent
American Playhouse
Boone Choate
Hill Street Blues
De Petrus
When Hell Was in Session
Lt. Jim Norton
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
William Tate
The Dain Curse
Sgt. O'Gar
Dallas
Mancuso
Lou Grant
Lind
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Richette
Kingston: Confidential
Vincent Ross
Quincy, M.E.
Mr. Royce
The Commitment
Abe
A Woman for All Men
Construction Worker
Baretta
Eddie Ryan
The Rockford Files
Officer Hensley
Incident at Vichy
Police Guard
Kojak
Brenner
Barnaby Jones
Baxter
The Waltons
Dr. Curtis Willard
The Wonderful World of Disney
Eli Nugent