Tom Bower

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.

Filmography (140 Appearances)

The Spittin' Image

TBA

Hurricanna

Double Down South

We Have a Ghost

Raymond & Ray

Two Ways Home

Fully Realized Humans

2020

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

2019

Senior Love Triangle

2019

Light of My Life

2019

Making a Deal with the Devil

The Last Big Save

As You Like It

Ice

Goliath

Lamb

Digging for Fire

Runoff

The Ever After

Bosch

13 Sins

Out of the Furnace

Dark Around the Stars

Ray Donovan

I Melt with You

Session

The Land of the Astronauts

Rizzoli & Isles

The Killer Inside Me

After the Denim

Crazy Heart

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Familiar Strangers

Appaloosa

Gospel Hill

Undoing

Private Practice

Pain Within

Feel

Flannel Pajamas

Brothers of the Head

The Amateurs

The Hills Have Eyes

Criminal Minds

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Fathers and Sons

Grey's Anatomy

The Office

North Country

Battlestar Galactica

In the Land of Milk and Money

2004

NCIS

2003

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

The Badge

Monk

High Crimes

The Laramie Project

Hearts in Atlantis

The Guardian

Going Greek

The Division

Pollock

The Million Dollar Hotel

Roswell

The West Wing

Malevolence

A Slipping Down Life

Monday After the Miracle

The Negotiator

Poodle Springs

Buffalo Soldiers

The Killing Jar

The Practice

Follow Me Home

Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

1996

Riders of the Purple Sage

Nixon

White Man's Burden

Georgia

The Avenging Angel

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

1995

Clear and Present Danger

Against the Wall

Shimmer

NYPD Blue

The X-Files

Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde

1993

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

Relentless 3

1993

Love Can Be Murder

1992

Revenge on the Highway

1992

Raising Cain

1992

Talent for the Game

1991

Love, Lies and Murder

Dillinger

Law & Order

Die Hard 2

The Road to Terror

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

Wired

Nightbreaker

True Believer

Distant Thunder

Split Decisions

Promised a Miracle

China Beach

Lady in White

What Price Victory

Family Sins

Beverly Hills Cop II

River's Edge

The Lightship

Misfits of Science

Crazy like a Fox

Murder, She Wrote

Miami Vice

Massive Retaliation

Wildrose

Hardcastle and McCormick

1983

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

1983

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

1982

Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang

1982

Hill Street Blues

1981

When Hell Was in Session

1979

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

The Dain Curse

Dallas

Lou Grant

The 3,000 Mile Chase

Kingston: Confidential

Quincy, M.E.

The Commitment

A Woman for All Men

Baretta

The Rockford Files

Incident at Vichy

Kojak

Barnaby Jones

The Waltons

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954