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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 3, 1938
Died
May 30, 2024
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA
Also Known As
- 톰 바우어
- تام باور
- Tim Bower
- Ralph Thomas Bower
Tom Bower
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.9
Old Nick
Double Down South
2024
6.5
Ernest Scheller
We Have a Ghost
2023
6.2
Harris
Raymond & Ray
2022
5.8
Walter
Two Ways Home
2020
5.3
Richard
Fully Realized Humans
2020
7.0
Lou
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019
4.3
William Selig
Senior Love Triangle
2019
6.4
Tom
Light of My Life
2019
0.0
MacGivens
Making a Deal with the Devil
2019
5.8
Robert
The Last Big Save
2019
Credits
Double Down South
as Old Nick
2024
5.9
We Have a Ghost
as Ernest Scheller
2023
6.5
Raymond & Ray
as Harris
2022
6.2
Two Ways Home
as Walter
2020
5.8
Fully Realized Humans
as Richard
2020
5.3
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as Lou
2019
7.0
Senior Love Triangle
as William Selig
2019
4.3
Light of My Life
as Tom
2019
6.4
Making a Deal with the Devil
as MacGivens
2019
0.0
The Last Big Save
as Robert
2019
5.8
As You Like It
as Jaques
2017
3.5
Ice
as Jonah Kreshman
2016
6.4
Goliath
as Jim
2016
7.6
Lamb
as Foster
2015
6.0
Digging for Fire
as Tom the Neighbor
2015
5.2
Runoff
as Scratch
2015
5.8
The Ever After
as Father O'Meara
2015
5.7
Bosch
as John Caffrey
2015
7.9
13 Sins
as Father
2014
6.3
Out of the Furnace
as Dan Dugan
2013
6.6
Dark Around the Stars
as Silky
2013
5.5
Ray Donovan
as Judge Roger Wettick
2013
7.5
I Melt with You
as Captain Bob
2011
5.3
Session
as Dr. Albert Solomon
2011
4.2
The Land of the Astronauts
as Mr. Esteridge
2010
6.3
Rizzoli & Isles
as Redmond Jones
2010
7.9
The Killer Inside Me
as Sheriff Bob Maples
2010
5.8
After the Denim
as James Packer
2010
0.0
Crazy Heart
as Bill Wilson
2009
6.9
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
as Pat McDonagh
2009
6.2
Appaloosa
as Abner Raines
2008
6.6
Gospel Hill
as Jack Herrod
2008
4.7
Familiar Strangers
2008
6.2
Undoing
as Don
2007
3.5
Private Practice
as Dennis Hoffman
2007
7.5
Pain Within
as Joseph
2007
0.0
Feel
as Buck
2006
4.0
Flannel Pajamas
as Bill
2006
5.2
Brothers of the Head
as Eddie Pasqua
2006
5.4
The Amateurs
as Floyd
2006
5.6
The Hills Have Eyes
as Gas Station Attendant
2006
6.5
Criminal Minds
as Damon Miller
2005
8.3
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
as Pop-Pop
2005
8.3
Grey's Anatomy
as Mr. Schultz
2005
8.2
The Office
as Heinrich
2005
8.6
North Country
as Gray Suchett
2005
7.2
Battlestar Galactica
as Joe
2004
8.2
In the Land of Milk and Money
as Lenny Cochran
2004
8.0
NCIS
as Miller Thompson
2003
7.6
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
as Tom Fender
2003
5.1
The Badge
as Bull Hardwick
2002
5.7
Monk
as Bennie Wentworth
2002
8.0
High Crimes
as FBI Agent Mullins
2002
6.3
The Laramie Project
as Father Roger Schmit
2002
6.2
Hearts in Atlantis
as Len Files
2001
6.8
The Guardian
as Ray 'Rufus' Schmiel
2001
6.9
Going Greek
as Bill
2001
4.5
The Division
as Bishop
2001
7.1
Pollock
as Dan Miller
2000
6.7
The Million Dollar Hotel
as Hector
2000
5.9
Roswell
as Everett Hubble
1999
7.7
The West Wing
as General Barrie
1999
8.2
Malevolence
as Jim Bradley
1999
6.0
A Slipping Down Life
as Mr. Decker
1999
4.0
Monday After the Miracle
as Uncle Ed
1998
0.0
The Negotiator
as Omar (uncredited)
1998
7.1
Poodle Springs
as Arnie Burns
1998
5.4
Buffalo Soldiers
as Gen. Pike
1997
5.4
The Killing Jar
as Det. Jake Pestone
1997
4.0
The Practice
as John Pierce
1997
7.6
Follow Me Home
as Larry
1997
3.5
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
as Marshall
1996
5.0
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Judkins (uncredited)
1996
5.8
Nixon
as Frank Nixon
1995
6.9
White Man's Burden
as Stanley
1995
5.1
Georgia
as Erwin Flood
1995
5.7
The Avenging Angel
as Bill Hickman
1995
4.7
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
as John Gale
1995
6.2
Clear and Present Danger
as Clark's Pilot (uncredited)
1994
6.6
Against the Wall
as Ed
1994
6.1
Shimmer
as Mr. Speck
1993
7.5
NYPD Blue
as Victor Ugo
1993
7.0
The X-Files
as Sheriff Harden
1993
8.4
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
as Peter Baker
1993
5.9
The Ballad of Little Jo
as Lyle Hogg (uncredited)
1993
5.8
Relentless 3
as Captain Phelan
1993
4.5
Love Can Be Murder
as Mike Riordan
1992
6.0
Revenge on the Highway
as Officer Russell Yates
1992
3.0
Raising Cain
as Sgt, Cully
1992
6.1
Talent for the Game
as Rev. Bodeen
1991
6.3
Love, Lies and Murder
as Leverette
1991
4.5
Dillinger
as Captain Matt Leach
1991
4.7
Law & Order
as Whitten
1990
7.4
Die Hard 2
as Marvin
1990
7.0
The Road to Terror
as Himself - Reporter
1989
7.0
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
as Billy Dobbs
1989
9.5
Wired
as Detective
1989
3.4
Nightbreaker
as Dan Cutter
1989
6.4
True Believer
as Cecil Skell
1989
6.2
Distant Thunder
as Louis
1988
5.6
Promised a Miracle
as Michael Elliot
1988
3.0
China Beach
as Archie Winslow
1988
7.4
Lady in White
as Sheriff Saunders
1988
6.1
What Price Victory
as Eldon Ray
1988
0.0
Family Sins
as Sheriff
1987
3.5
Beverly Hills Cop II
as Russ Fielding
1987
6.5
River's Edge
as Bennett
1986
6.5
The Lightship
as "Coop" Cooper
1985
5.0
Misfits of Science
as Jeffries
1985
6.9
Crazy like a Fox
as Trumble
1984
7.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Jonathan Bailey
1984
7.5
Miami Vice
as C.I.A. Agent Carter
1984
7.5
Massive Retaliation
as Kirk Fredericks
1984
3.0
Wildrose
as Rick
1984
2.0
Hardcastle and McCormick
as Marty Torrance
1983
6.4
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Boone Chate
1983
6.9
🎬
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
as Tom
1982
9.0
Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang
as Eli Nugent
1982
2.0
Hill Street Blues
as De Petrus
1981
7.6
When Hell Was in Session
as Lt. Jim Norton
1979
7.0
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
as William Tate
1978
0.0
The Dain Curse
as Sgt. O'Gar
1978
6.2
Dallas
as Mancuso
1978
6.8
Lou Grant
as Lind
1977
7.3
The 3,000 Mile Chase
as Richette
1977
0.0
Kingston: Confidential
as Vincent Ross
1977
5.0
Quincy, M.E.
as Mr. Royce
1976
7.5
The Commitment
as Abe
1976
0.0
A Woman for All Men
as Construction Worker
1975
4.8
The Rockford Files
as Officer Hensley
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Jeff Cooperman
1974
7.6
Incident at Vichy
as Police Guard
1973
0.0
Kojak
as Brenner
1973
7.0
Barnaby Jones
as Baxter
1973
6.9
The Waltons
as Dr. Curtis Willard
1972
7.2
The Waltons
as Rex Barker
1972
7.2
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Eli Nugent
1954
7.8
🎬
The Spittin' Image
N/A
0.0
Hurricanna
as Dentist
N/A
0.0