Tom Bower
Birthday: 1938-01-03
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Biography: Ralph Thomas Bower (January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024) was an American actor who appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles from 1973 to 2023. On television, he played physician Curtis Willard (husband of Mary-Ellen) on The Waltons (1975 - 1978). Bower also appeared in numerous series in guest roles, including Hill Street Blues, The X-Files, The West Wing, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In film, he had prominent supporting roles in notable films such as River's Edge (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Die Hard 2 (1990), Nixon (1995), Pollock (2000), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Appaloosa (2008), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Killer Inside Me (2010), and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). Bower was also an award-winning stage actor.
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The Million Dollar Hotel
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Ang...
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The Ballad of Little Jo
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive th...
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The Badge
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high rank...
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Die Hard 2
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in t...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
A comic study of 20th century history, reconstructing the life of one Tulse Luper, a writer, project...
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Poodle Springs
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme....
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Gospel Hill
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. D...
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High Crimes
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accu...
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Hearts in Atlantis
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives....
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutena...
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Crazy Heart
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend...
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The Hills Have Eyes
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family ro...
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Appaloosa
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their jo...
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Pollock
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: I...
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Love Can Be Murder
Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" ...
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Double Down South
In a world of illegal, high-stakes gambling, Nick owns a run-down plantation house. He is enamored w...
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along t...
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Raising Cain
Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a da...
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Follow Me Home
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of...
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The Killer Inside Me
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and appar...
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-t...
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Session
A psychological suspense drama-thriller where a psychologist becomes obsessed with one of his patien...
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A Slipping Down Life
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer....
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We Have a Ghost
After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media s...
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Massive Retaliation
Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The ...
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Relentless 3
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help...
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Raymond & Ray
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final w...
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Nightbreaker
Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells...
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The Avenging Angel
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to questi...
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Out of the Furnace
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in p...
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Feel
Over the course of a single day, four different men visit a massage parlor looking for some kind of ...
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Buffalo Soldiers
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-Ameri...
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Revenge on the Highway
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. ...
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mex...
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Undoing
A crime drama set in LA's Koreatown, UNDOING introduces us to Samuel, who returns after a mysterious...
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Dillinger
Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI af...
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13 Sins
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phon...
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Brothers of the Head
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish ro...
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White Man's Burden
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and white...
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...
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Digging for Fire
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hill...
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The Ever After
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los ...
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Lamb
Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks foll...
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Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
The Bonnie & Clyde story is re-told from a contemporary viewpoint. Clyde in this movie is a high...
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Promised a Miracle
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of...
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Runoff
The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confro...
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Familiar Strangers
"Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and sibling...
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What Price Victory
A television movie about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on ...
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When Hell Was in Session
This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held i...
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Dark Around the Stars
Glen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends h...
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Against the Wall
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the...
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True Believer
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. ...
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The Negotiator
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for hi...
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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants...
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Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for wome...
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Family Sins
Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith ...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Light of My Life
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out ha...
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Lady in White
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and...
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I Melt with You
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment th...
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A Woman for All Men
Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous ...
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River's Edge
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed ano...
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The Road to Terror
In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and...
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Wildrose
June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically...
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Shimmer
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place i...
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Talent for the Game
Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he ...
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The Killing Jar
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, ...
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As You Like It
A modern-day, all-male re telling of Shakespeare’s comedy classic about lovelorn lads, vengeful men,...
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Making a Deal with the Devil
A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secret...
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The Last Big Save
A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that ...
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in...
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Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian t...
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The Lightship
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't recko...
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The Amateurs
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable lose...
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Fully Realized Humans
Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth ...
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Incident at Vichy
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, t...
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After the Denim
"After the Denim" is the story of James Packer, a retired accountant and recovering alcoholic who tr...
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from S...
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Senior Love Triangle
An 84-year old charming but delusional WWII veteran forms relationships with two elderly women and g...
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Two Ways Home
Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman new...
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The Laramie Project
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-ye...
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Going Greek
Loner freshman Jake Taylor is forced to join the wildest fraternity on campus when the frat brothers...
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The Commitment
A salesman's marriage is at stake due to his increasing gambling debts....
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Beverly Hills Cop II
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of ...
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Distant Thunder
A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He retu...
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Monday After the Miracle
Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their ...
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Georgia
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very ...
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Malevolence
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse insid...
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The Spittin' Image
A man looks back at his childhood and his relationship with his grandfather....
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Hurricanna
In an attempt to save Anna Nicole Smith's life, her devoted therapist, Khristine embarks on a 36-hou...
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Flannel Pajamas
A mismatched couple meet on a blind date in Manhattan... as Stuart and Nicole progress from love to ...
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North Country
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...
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Clear and Present Danger
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia...
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Jim Lassister seeks the man responsible for his sister's death. His quest draws him into an insular ...
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In the Land of Milk and Money
Idyllic Suburbia. Mom 'n' Apple Pie. Or not. This outrageous comedy turns suburban America on its he...
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