
Tom Bower
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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.
Known For

Law & Order

Criminal Minds

Grey's Anatomy

NCIS

Murder, She Wrote

Monk

Quincy, M.E.

Kojak

The Practice

The West Wing

Hill Street Blues

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Rockford Files

Miami Vice

The X-Files

Private Practice

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Breaking Bad

Lou Grant

The Waltons

The Office

Bosch

Dallas

Crazy like a Fox

Roswell

China Beach

Rizzoli & Isles

Battlestar Galactica

Misfits of Science

Goliath

Ray Donovan

Clear and Present Danger

Beverly Hills Cop II

Digging for Fire

Nixon

Die Hard 2

Talent for the Game

Out of the Furnace

Against the Wall

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Family Sins

We Have a Ghost

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

River's Edge

The Dain Curse

Raymond & Ray

The Hills Have Eyes

Lamb

Distant Thunder

Crazy Heart

White Man's Burden

Love, Lies and Murder

The Killer Inside Me

Poodle Springs

Double Down South

Promised a Miracle

The Laramie Project

The Road to Terror
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