Tom Bower
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 14.212 |
| Birthday | 1938-01-03 |
| Place of Birth | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Also Known As | RalphThomas Bower , 톰 바우어, |
2000
The Million Dollar Hotel
5.879/334
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
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The Million Dollar Hotel
1993
The Ballad of Little Jo
5.8/22
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
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The Ballad of Little Jo
2002
The Badge
5.854/41
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although h...
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The Badge
1990
Die Hard 2
7/5785
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...
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Die Hard 2
2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
5.3/22
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born i...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
1998
Poodle Springs
5.4/19
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
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Poodle Springs
2008
Gospel Hill
4.7/21
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain...
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Gospel Hill
2002
High Crimes
6.3/785
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador....
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High Crimes
2001
Hearts in Atlantis
6.7/543
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
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Hearts in Atlantis
2009
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
6.181/1119
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to hi...
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
Crazy Heart
6.922/1044
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a...
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Crazy Heart
2006
The Hills Have Eyes
6.4/2989
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the trave...
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The Hills Have Eyes
2008
Appaloosa
6.6/987
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Appaloosa
2000
Pollock
6.676/312
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
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Pollock
1992
Love Can Be Murder
6/1
Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad...
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Love Can Be Murder
2024
Double Down South
5.5/8
In a world of illegal, high-stakes gambling, Nick owns a run-down plantation house. He is enamored with the smart, tough and charming ace Diana's inte...
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Double Down South
1995
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
6.1/84
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father,...
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
1992
Raising Cain
6.1/347
Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequen...
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Raising Cain
1997
Follow Me Home
6/1
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with...
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Follow Me Home
2010
The Killer Inside Me
5.828/574
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...
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The Killer Inside Me
1996
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
0/0
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
2011
Session
4.2/3
A psychological suspense drama-thriller where a psychologist becomes obsessed with one of his patients. The lines between dreams and reality blend.
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Session
1999
A Slipping Down Life
4.3/17
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
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A Slipping Down Life
2023
We Have a Ghost
6.478/593
After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to in...
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We Have a Ghost
1984
Massive Retaliation
3/3
Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the s...
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Massive Retaliation
1993
Relentless 3
4.8/8
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killing...
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Relentless 3
2022
Raymond & Ray
6.3/174
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they...
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Raymond & Ray
1989
Nightbreaker
7.1/6
Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, ex...
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Nightbreaker
1995
The Avenging Angel
5.2/7
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involvin...
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The Avenging Angel
2013
Out of the Furnace
6.568/1942
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the m...
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Out of the Furnace
2006
Feel
5.2/5
Over the course of a single day, four different men visit a massage parlor looking for some kind of emotional or physical connection. Simultaneously,...
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Feel
1997
Buffalo Soldiers
5.1/14
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, the...
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Buffalo Soldiers
1992
Revenge on the Highway
3.2/5
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to se...
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Revenge on the Highway
1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
6.833/24
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in d...
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
2007
Undoing
3.5/2
A crime drama set in LA's Koreatown, UNDOING introduces us to Samuel, who returns after a mysterious absence to reconcile the death of his best friend...
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Undoing
1991
Dillinger
4.5/2
Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Gr...
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Dillinger
2007
Pain Within
0/0
A drama about child abuse and its long term effects on its victims.
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Pain Within
2014
13 Sins
6.3/1090
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera...
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13 Sins
2006
Brothers of the Head
5.7/23
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and...
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Brothers of the Head
1989
Wired
3.4/21
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
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Wired
1995
White Man's Burden
5.077/79
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pin...
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White Man's Burden
1978
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
0/0
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk
2015
Digging for Fire
5.1/142
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and...
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Digging for Fire
2015
The Ever After
5.8/16
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her...
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The Ever After
2015
Lamb
5.975/60
Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the d...
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Lamb
2005
North Country
7.219/645
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endur...
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North Country
1993
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
6.4/8
The Bonnie & Clyde story is re-told from a contemporary viewpoint. Clyde in this movie is a high school nerd working in the local burger joint. Ur...
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Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
1988
Promised a Miracle
5/1
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted i...
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Promised a Miracle
2015
Runoff
5.8/10
The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to desper...
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Runoff
2008
Familiar Strangers
6.2/22
"Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog? . . . Pe...
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Familiar Strangers
1988
What Price Victory
0/0
What Price Victory is about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.
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What Price Victory
1979
When Hell Was in Session
7/1
This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation,...
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When Hell Was in Session
2013
Dark Around the Stars
10/1
Glen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends him on a spirited adventure.....
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Dark Around the Stars
1994
Against the Wall
6.1/78
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
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Against the Wall
1989
True Believer
6.2/106
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has...
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True Believer
1998
The Negotiator
7.1/2068
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...
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The Negotiator
1989
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
9.5/2
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sherif...
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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1982
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
9/1
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.
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Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1987
Family Sins
3.5/2
Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports....
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Family Sins
1995
Nixon
6.869/363
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
2019
Light of My Life
6.4/522
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles t...
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Light of My Life
1988
Lady in White
6.124/121
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly after...
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Lady in White
2011
I Melt with You
5.3/79
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive...
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I Melt with You
1975
A Woman for All Men
5.5/10
Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous Karen Petrie. Walter's son Steve automatically bec...
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A Woman for All Men
1986
River's Edge
6.5/272
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, ea...
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River's Edge
1989
The Road to Terror
7/2
In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city...
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The Road to Terror
1984
Wildrose
0/0
June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, June is determined to make it o...
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Wildrose
1993
Shimmer
7.5/1
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention c...
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Shimmer
1991
Talent for the Game
6/3
Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro...
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Talent for the Game
1997
The Killing Jar
4.5/4
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...
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The Killing Jar
2017
As You Like It
3.5/2
A modern-day, all-male re telling of Shakespeare’s comedy classic about lovelorn lads, vengeful men, shameless hussies and mind games. Set in the cont...
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As You Like It
2019
Making a Deal with the Devil
0/0
A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime...
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Making a Deal with the Devil
2019
The Last Big Save
7.3/3
A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his fi...
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The Last Big Save
2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
6.963/4899
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
1982
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
2/1
A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian to two kids, Clovis and Celia. He tries to decline...
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Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
1985
The Lightship
5.3/19
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
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The Lightship
2006
The Amateurs
5.58/94
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams...
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The Amateurs
2020
Fully Realized Humans
4.8/8
Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and...
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Fully Realized Humans
1973
Incident at Vichy
0/0
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation,...
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Incident at Vichy
2010
Black Limousine
7.2/12
A ghost story set in the city of dreams.
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Black Limousine
2010
After the Denim
0/0
"After the Denim" is the story of James Packer, a retired accountant and recovering alcoholic who transforms from a bristly, argumentative, resentful...
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After the Denim
1977
The 3,000 Mile Chase
0/0
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to...
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
2019
Senior Love Triangle
4.3/3
An 84-year old charming but delusional WWII veteran forms relationships with two elderly women and goes on a crusade to save them from the isolation o...
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Senior Love Triangle
2020
Two Ways Home
6.3/11
Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released...
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Two Ways Home
2002
The Laramie Project
6.4/52
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage versio...
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The Laramie Project
2001
Going Greek
4.8/22
Loner freshman Jake Taylor is forced to join the wildest fraternity on campus when the frat brothers refuse to accept his geeky cousin/roommate unless...
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Going Greek
1976
The Commitment
0/0
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts.
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The Commitment
1987
Beverly Hills Cop II
6.509/2529
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...
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Beverly Hills Cop II
1988
Distant Thunder
5.6/16
A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an...
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Distant Thunder
1998
Monday After the Miracle
0/0
Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their close relationship is threatened when John Macy, a...
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Monday After the Miracle
1995
Georgia
5.9/43
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tend...
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Georgia
1999
Malevolence
6/2
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outsid...
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Malevolence
The Spittin' Image
0/0
A man looks back at his childhood and his relationship with his grandfather.
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The Spittin' Image
Hurricanna
0/0
In an attempt to save Anna Nicole Smith's life, her devoted therapist, Khristine embarks on a 36-hour odyssey in which she unknowingly delivers the fa...
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Hurricanna
2006
Flannel Pajamas
5.3/10
A mismatched couple meet on a blind date in Manhattan... as Stuart and Nicole progress from love to marriage to discussions about starting a family, t...
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