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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 29, 1952
Place of Birth
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
- Tom Shoemaker
- Thomas Wright
- Thomas J. Wright
- Том Врайт
- Том Райт
- Harold Thomas Wright
- Гарольд Томас Райт
Tom Wright
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Harold Thomas Wright is an American television and theatre actor. Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions on and off Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Wright also spent four years at the National Playwrights Conference and two summers at the Sundance Institute. On Broadway, he performed in A Taste of Honey which received two Tony Award nominations. Some of the notable theaters in which he has appeared include the American Place Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Stage, Yale Repertory Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford Stage, Los Angeles Stage and Film, and Theatre De La Jeune Lune in Minneapolis starring in Farthest From The Sun with Steve Guttenberg. In 1987, he played a hitchhiker in the horror film Creepshow 2. Wright co-starred in the feature films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business with Ice Cube. He also co-starred with Angela Bassett as her ex-lover in Sunshine State, his fifth film with writer/director John Sayles. The other four Sayles films include: Passion Fish, City of Hope, Matewan and The Brother from Another Planet. Since then he co-starred in another Sayles feature, Honeydripper. In 2000, Wright won the Best Actor Award at the Santa Monica Film Festival for his portrayal of John Shed in the indie film Dumbarton Bridge. He has played roles on several television programs but is best known for playing Mr. Morgan, Yankees co-worker of character George Costanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld; and the hybrid alien Tuvix in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tuvix".
Known For
Credits
Summer Camp
as Mike
2024
5.3
Daisy Jones & the Six
as Teddy Price
2023
8.0
The Locksmith
as Chief Stern
2023
5.9
That's Amor
as Henry
2022
5.1
True Story
as Shelly
2021
7.1
Gully
as Principal West
2021
5.2
The Beanfield
2020
0.0
Medical Police
as Director Patten
2020
6.4
A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford
2019
6.2
Still Happy
as George Haliday
2019
0.0
#Truth
as Donald Cooper
2019
4.0
The Divorce Party
as Sacks
2019
5.0
The Rookie
as Colin Hall
2018
8.5
Spell
as Edmund
2018
4.9
Higher Power
as Tom Davis
2018
5.1
Station 19
as Battalion Chief Gregory
2018
8.2
9-1-1
as Buck's Doctor
2018
8.2
Marvel's Inhumans
as George Ashland
2017
5.9
Inhumans: The First Chapter
as George Ashland
2017
5.2
The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon
2017
3.2
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Military Attache
2017
6.1
Message from the King
as Waylon
2017
6.2
Shooter
as Jason Colby
2016
7.2
Within
as Detective Pascal
2016
5.4
The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky
2016
4.3
South32
as Sgt. Kake
2016
1.0
The Last Bid
as Harris
2016
4.3
Rebirth
as The Expert
2016
4.7
Rush Hour
as Holt
2016
5.2
The Magicians
as Santa
2015
7.6
The Magicians
as Santa Claus
2015
7.6
Runaway Island
as Raymond Tepper
2015
10.0
The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)
2015
5.0
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms
2015
5.3
Starting from Scratch
as Homeless Stan
2014
6.0
Beyond the Lights
as Reverend Brown
2014
6.8
Things Never Said
as Daniel
2013
6.2
Ray Donovan
as Benito
2013
7.5
Ray Donovan
as Punch Hoffman
2013
7.5
1600 Penn
as Interviewer
2012
4.6
A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark
2012
6.2
Grimm
as Spencer Harrison
2011
8.3
Franklin & Bash
as Judge Gerald Whitman
2011
7.2
Rift
as Lietenant Neal
2011
2.6
Rizzoli & Isles
as Walt (Boston Pilgrims' attorney)
2010
7.9
Breakdance Academy
as Pete
2010
0.0
Burning Palms
as Maxwell Barron
2010
5.2
The Cursed
as Willie Gar
2010
4.1
Modern Family
as Security Guard
2009
7.9
Dark Blue
as Freddy
2009
6.9
Castle
as Fats Shepherd
2009
8.0
Crash
as Roger Paul
2008
5.0
The Imposter
as Popeye
2008
4.0
The Mentalist
as Kevin Rome
2008
8.4
🎬
Bohica
as Horowitz
2008
6.0
Live!
as Dr. Raymond Boyd
2007
5.5
Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze
2007
5.9
Saving Grace
as Governor's Protection Agent
2007
7.4
🎬
Sinner
as Officer Thomas
2007
3.6
Shark
as Deputy Police Chief George Martinson
2006
6.7
World Trade Center
as Officer Reynolds
2006
6.1
Striking Range
as John Hatem
2006
3.9
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
as Bryant
2006
5.4
Ghost Whisperer
as Dave McKey
2005
8.1
Close to Home
as Judge Jenkins
2005
5.9
The Inside
as Glenn Terry
2005
7.2
Chasing Ghosts
as Tom Shields
2005
5.5
Numb3rs
as Coach Harry Streeling
2005
7.0
American Fusion
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah
2005
5.5
House
as Dr. Pilcher
2004
8.6
In Your Eyes
as Phil
2004
6.0
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Detective Williams
2004
6.0
NCIS
as Sam Kelleher
2003
7.6
Hangman's Curse
as Dan Carillo
2003
5.1
The O.C.
as Paul Glass
2003
7.8
Betrayal
as Detective Stan
2003
4.1
Nip/Tuck
as Detective Albert Chavies
2003
7.2
L.A. Dragnet
as Jay Delmore
2003
6.8
Everwood
as Carl's Lawyer
2002
7.6
🎬
The Keyman
as Popeye
2002
5.2
Sunshine State
as Flash Phillips
2002
6.3
Contagion
as Tom Brenner
2002
4.0
Barbershop
as Detective Williams
2002
6.4
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable
2002
4.0
24
as Rear Admiral Kirkland
2001
7.8
24
as Admiral Kirkland
2001
7.8
Star Trek: Enterprise
as Ghrath
2001
7.5
Layover
as Detective Mills
2001
4.6
The Prime Gig
as Marvin Sanders
2001
5.9
Alex in Wonder
as Sebastian
2001
3.9
Pursuit of Happiness
as Thom
2001
4.7
The Division
2001
7.1
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Jake Daniels
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Robert Harris
2000
7.6
Family Law
as Roscoe
1999
8.2
Funny Valentines
as Dr. Thomas Holder
1999
7.2
Martial Law
as Capt. Benjamin Winship
1998
7.1
The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers
1998
6.9
Palmetto
as John Renick
1998
5.9
Menno's Mind
as Jor Norwell, executed rebel (uncredited)
1997
4.8
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Marvel Sears
1997
4.9
Murder at 1600
as Cooper
1997
6.1
Gridlock'd
as Koolaid
1997
6.7
My Fellow Americans
as Jim
1996
6.0
Playing Dangerous 2
as Alton Broom
1996
4.3
White Man's Burden
as Lionel
1995
5.1
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson
1995
3.2
Tales from the Hood
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")
1995
6.3
Forget Paris
as Tommy
1995
6.3
🎬
Extreme
as Farley Potts
1995
0.0
Star Trek: Voyager
as Tuvix
1995
7.8
ER
as Wharton
1994
7.8
Chicago Hope
as Charlie Barrett
1994
7.2
Men of War
as Jamaal
1994
5.1
Vault of Horror I
as Mitch (archive footage)
1994
5.3
Viper
as Travis Parker
1994
6.1
Amityville: A New Generation
as Morgue Attendant
1993
4.2
Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers
1993
3.8
Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles
1993
5.0
Passion Fish
as Luther
1992
6.9
Past Midnight
as Lee Samuels
1992
5.0
Dead in the Water
as Hotel Clerk
1991
5.2
City of Hope
as Malik
1991
6.6
Roc
as David
1991
7.8
Street Hunter
as Riley
1990
5.5
Reversal of Fortune
as Jack
1990
6.6
Marked for Death
as Charles
1990
6.1
Murder in Black and White
as Walt Payne
1990
0.0
Seinfeld
as Mr Morgan
1989
8.3
Seinfeld
as Mr. Morgan
1989
8.3
Troop Beverly Hills
as Shakar
1989
5.7
Troop Beverly Hills
as James Shakar
1989
5.7
Vietnam War Story: The Last Days
as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")
1989
0.0
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Brothel Man
1988
6.4
A Different World
as John Holtworth
1987
7.0
Matewan
as Tom
1987
7.4
Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker
1987
6.2
21 Jump Street
as Fred Clairman
1987
7.2
21 Jump Street
as A.D.A. Lamar, Judy's Date
1987
7.2
L.A. Law
as D.A. Prentiss Scott
1986
7.0
Johnny Bull
as Paulie
1986
1.0
Streetwalkin'
as Henchman #1
1985
4.8
Exterminator 2
as Youth
1984
3.9
The Brother from Another Planet
as Sam
1984
6.6
Delta Pi
as Party Heckler
1984
3.6
Alphabet City
as Chauffeur
1984
4.5
OK Today Tomorrow
1983
0.0
The Soldier
as Faux Businessman
1982
5.3
Subway Riders
as On the Waterfront
1981
6.5
Underground U.S.A.
as Frank
1980
4.0
Tomcats
as Old Man
1977
3.6