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Tom Bower
Tom Bower
	Bower in 2013
Born	Ralph Thomas Bower; January 3, 1938; Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Died	May 30, 2024 (aged 86); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1973–2023

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.^[1] He appeared in Chris Chan Lee's 2006 film Undoing.^[2]

Bower died in Los Angeles on May 30, 2024, at the age of 86.^[3]^[4]

Filmography

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
Grey's Anatomy (2013, 1 episode) as Mr. Shultz
Lucky Hank (2023, 3 episodes) as Henry Devereaux Sr. (final appearance)