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.
The Million Dollar Hotel
(Hector)
The Ballad of Little Jo
(Lyle Hogg (uncredited))
The Badge
(Bull Hardwick)
Die Hard 2
(Marvin)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
(Tom Fender)
Poodle Springs
(Arnie Burns)
Gospel Hill
(Jack Herrod)
High Crimes
(FBI Agent Mullins)
Hearts in Atlantis
(Len Files)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
(Pat McDonagh)
Crazy Heart
(Bill Wilson)
The Hills Have Eyes
(Gas Station Attendant)
Appaloosa
(Abner Raines)
Pollock
(Dan Miller)
Love Can Be Murder
(Mike Riordan)
Double Down South
(Old Nick)
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
(John Gale)
Raising Cain
(Sgt, Cully)
Follow Me Home
(Larry)
The Killer Inside Me
(Sheriff Bob Maples)
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
(Marshall)
Session
(Dr. Albert Solomon)
A Slipping Down Life
(Mr. Decker)
We Have a Ghost
(Ernest Scheller)
Massive Retaliation
(Kirk Fredericks)
Relentless 3
(Captain Phelan)
Raymond & Ray
(Harris)
Nightbreaker
(Dan Cutter)
The Avenging Angel
(Bill Hickman)
Out of the Furnace
(Dan Dugan)
Feel
(Buck)
Buffalo Soldiers
(Gen. Pike)
Revenge on the Highway
(Officer Russell Yates)
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
(Boone Chate)
Undoing
(Don)
Dillinger
(Captain Matt Leach)
Pain Within
(Joseph)
13 Sins
(Father)
Brothers of the Head
(Eddie Pasqua)
Wired
(Detective)
White Man's Burden
(Stanley)
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
(William Tate)
Digging for Fire
(Tom the Neighbor)
The Ever After
(Father O'Meara)
Lamb
(Foster)
North Country
(Gray Suchett)
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
(Peter Baker)
Promised a Miracle
(Michael Elliot)
Runoff
(Scratch)
Familiar Strangers
What Price Victory
(Eldon Ray)
When Hell Was in Session
(Lt. Jim Norton)
Dark Around the Stars
(Silky)
Against the Wall
(Ed)
True Believer
(Cecil Skell)
The Negotiator
(Omar (uncredited))
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
(Billy Dobbs)
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
(Tom)
Family Sins
(Sheriff)
Nixon
(Frank Nixon)
Light of My Life
(Tom)
Lady in White
(Sheriff Saunders)
I Melt with You
(Captain Bob)
A Woman for All Men
(Construction Worker)
River's Edge
(Bennett)
The Road to Terror
(Himself - Reporter)
Wildrose
(Rick)
Shimmer
(Mr. Speck)
Talent for the Game
(Rev. Bodeen)
The Killing Jar
As You Like It
(Jaques)
Making a Deal with the Devil
(MacGivens)
The Last Big Save
(Robert)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
(Lou)
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
(Eli Nugent)
The Lightship
The Amateurs
(Floyd)
Fully Realized Humans
(Richard)
Incident at Vichy
(Police Guard)
Black Limousine
(Mr. Esteridge)
After the Denim
(James Packer)
The 3,000 Mile Chase
(Richette)
Senior Love Triangle
(William Selig)
Two Ways Home
(Walter)
The Laramie Project
(Father Roger Schmit)
Going Greek
(Bill)
The Commitment
(Abe)
Beverly Hills Cop II
(Russ Fielding)
Distant Thunder
(Louis)
Monday After the Miracle
(Uncle Ed)
Georgia
(Erwin Flood)
Flannel Pajamas
(Bill)
Malevolence
(Jim Bradley)
The Spittin' Image
Hurricanna
(Dentist)
The X-Files
(Sheriff Harden)
Mr. Sunshine
(General Mitch Tompkins)
Dallas
(Mancuso)
NCIS
(Miller Thompson)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
(Pop-Pop)
Ray Donovan
(Judge Roger Wettick)
Love, Lies and Murder
(Leverette)
The Rockford Files
(Officer Hensley)
Monk
(Bennie Wentworth)
Rizzoli & Isles
(Redmond Jones)
Ice
(Jonah Kreshman)
Crazy like a Fox
(Trumble)
The Dain Curse
(Sgt. O'Gar)
The Rockford Files
(Jeff Cooperman)
Law & Order
(Whitten)
Kojak
(Brenner)
Grey's Anatomy
(Mr. Schultz)
Goliath
Battlestar Galactica
(Joe)
The West Wing
(General Barrie)
Misfits of Science
(Jeffries)
Roswell
(Everett Hubble)
Bosch
(John Caffrey)
The Office
(Heinrich)
Murder, She Wrote
(Jonathan Bailey)
The Waltons
(Dr. Curtis Willard)