Tom Bower (actor)

Ralph Thomas Bower (January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024) was an American actor. He 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.

Bower died in Los Angeles on May 30, 2024, at the age of 86.

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 Waltons (1975–1978, 26 episodes) as Dr. Curtis Willard / Rex Barker
 * The Bionic Woman (1976, 1 episode) as Ted Ryan
 * 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. (final appearance)