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Tom Bower
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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.
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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.
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Law & Order
Criminal Minds
Grey's Anatomy
NCIS
Murder, She Wrote
Monk
Kojak
The Practice
The West Wing
Hill Street Blues
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Rockford Files
Miami Vice
The X-Files
Private Practice
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Breaking Bad
Lou Grant
The Waltons
The Office
Bosch
Dallas
Crazy like a Fox
Roswell
China Beach
Rizzoli & Isles
Battlestar Galactica
Misfits of Science
Goliath
Ray Donovan
Clear and Present Danger
Beverly Hills Cop II
Digging for Fire
Nixon
Talent for the Game
Against the Wall
Out of the Furnace
Die Hard 2
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Family Sins
We Have a Ghost
River's Edge
The Hills Have Eyes
The Dain Curse
Lamb
Raymond & Ray
Distant Thunder
Crazy Heart
White Man's Burden
Love, Lies and Murder
The Killer Inside Me
Promised a Miracle
Poodle Springs
Double Down South
The Laramie Project
The Road to Terror
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