# 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.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1976 | Two-Minute Warning | Decker, S.W.A.T. Team Member |
| 1978 | The Dain Curse | Sergeant O'Gar |
| 1978 | The Winds of Kitty Hawk | William Tate |
| 1982 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Boone Choate |
| 1984 | Wildrose | Rick Ogaard |
| 1984 | Massive Retaliation | Kirk Fredericks |
| 1985 | The Lightship | Coop |
| 1986 | River's Edge | Detective Bennett |
| 1987 | Beverly Hills Cop II | Russ Fielding |
| 1988 | Split Decisions | Detective Walsh |
| 1988 | Distant Thunder | Louis |
| 1989 | True Believer | Cecil Skell |
| 1989 | Wired | Detective |
| 1990 | Die Hard 2 | Marvin |
| 1991 | Talent for the Game | Reverend Bodeen |
| 1992 | Aces: Iron Eagle III | DEA Agent Warren Crawford |
| 1992 | Raising Cain | Sergeant Cally |
| 1993 | Relentless 3 | Captain Phelan |
| 1994 | Against the Wall (TV Movie) | Ed |
| 1995 | Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog | John Gale |
| 1995 | Georgia | Erwin Flood |
| 1995 | White Man's Burden | Stanley |
| 1995 | Nixon | Frank Nixon |
| 1997 | Buffalo Soldiers (TV Movie) | General Pike |
| 1998 | Poodle Springs (TV Movie) | Arnie Burns |
| 1999 | A Slipping-Down Life | Mr. Decker |
| 2000 | The Million Dollar Hotel | Hector |
| 2000 | Pollock | Dan Miller |
| 2001 | Going Greek | Bill |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Len Files |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project (TV Movie) | Father Roger Schmit |
| 2002 | High Crimes | FBI Agent Mullins |
| 2002 | The Badge | 'Bull' Hardwick |
| 2005 | The Amateurs | Floyd |
| 2005 | North Country | Gray Suchett |
| 2006 | The Hills Have Eyes | Gas Station Attendant |
| 2006 | Undoing | Don |
| 2006 | Three | Uncle Eugene Parson |
| 2008 | Familiar Strangers | Frank Worthington |
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Abner Raines |
| 2008 | Gospel Hill | Jack Herrod |
| 2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Pat McDonagh |
| 2009 | For Sale by Owner | Sheriff O'Hare |
| 2009 | Crazy Heart | Bill Wilson |
| 2010 | The Killer Inside Me | Sheriff Bob Maples |
| 2011 | I Melt with You | Captain Bob |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Dan Dugan |
| 2014 | 13 Sins | Father |
| 2014 | The Ever After | Father O'Meara |
| 2014 | Runoff | Scratch |
| 2015 | Lamb | Foster |
| 2018 | Light of My Life | Tom |
| 2019 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Lou |
| 2019 | Senior Love Triangle | William Selig |
| 2020 | Fully Realized Humans | Richard |
| 2023 | We Have a Ghost | Ernest Scheller |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1974, 1976 | The Rockford Files | Jeff Cooperman / Officer Hensley | 2 episodes |
| 1975–1978 | The Waltons | Dr. Curtis Willard / Rex Barker | 26 episodes |
| 1976 | The Bionic Woman | Ted Ryan | 1 episode |
| 1979 | Lou Grant | Lind | 1 episode |
| 1979 | Barnaby Jones | Baxter | 1 episode |
| 1981–1986 | Hill Street Blues | De Petrus / Narcotics Cop | 3 episodes |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Jonathan Bailey | 1 episode |
| 1985 | Misfits of Science | Jeffries | 1 episode |
| 1985 | Miami Vice | Detective Carter | 1 episode |
| 1990 | China Beach | Archie Winslow | Episode: "Thanks of a Grateful Nation" (Season 3 Episode 17) |
| 1991 | Love, Lies and Murder | Leverette | |
| 1999 | The X-Files | Sheriff Harden | 1 episode (Season 7, Episode 5) |
| 1999–2000 | Roswell | Hubble | 1 episode (Season 1, Episode 13) |
| 2000 | The West Wing | General Ed Barrie | 1 episode |
| 2005 | Cold Case | Curtis Collins | |
| 2008 | Monk | Bennie Wentworth | 1 episode |
| 2005, 2012 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Heinrich "Pop-Pop" Landgraf | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Criminal Minds | Damon Miller | |
| 2013 | Grey's Anatomy | Mr. Shultz | 1 episode |
| 2023 | Lucky Hank | Henry Devereaux Sr. | 3 episodes (final appearance) |