Tom Bower, the veteran character actor greatest identified for outstanding activates The Waltons and in Die Exhausting 2, has died. A member of the family confirmed the information to Deadline’s sister publication The Hollywood Reporter. He was 86.
Bower by no means had what one may name a “breakout” half, however he was an actor one acknowledged from, properly, in all places. His greater than 180 display screen credit embody appearances on The Rockford Information, Lou Grant, Quincy M.E., Miami Vice, Hill Road Blues, NYPD Blue, The X-Information, Regulation & Order and plenty of different TV staples of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s.
And he saved on working. Up to now 15 years, Bower was on Ray Donovan, Bosch, Gray’s Anatomy, Prison Minds, The Workplace and It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia. He additionally performed the daddy of Bob Odenkirk’s character on Fortunate Hank and had an element in Vince Gilligan’s El Camino, A Breaking Unhealthy Film.
Bower noticed essentially the most display screen time on CBS’ hit The Waltons. He was featured on 27 episodes of the landmark collection, first as a stunt pilot named Rex Barker in a episode titled Wingwalker, after which extra prominently as Dr. Curtis Willard in Season 5 of the present. The character was a romantic curiosity for Mary Ellen (Judy Norton), and the 2 married earlier than Dr. Willard went off to warfare. Bower later mentioned he was written off the present after asking for a small increase.
Mary McDonough, who performed Erin Walton, wrote on studying of Bower’s passing, “Unhappy to listen to we misplaced our ‘brother in regulation’ Curt. Relaxation in peace Tom Bower.”
On the large display screen, Bower labored with outstanding administrators resembling John Cassavetes (Shadows), Oliver Stone (Nixon), Werner Herzog (Unhealthy Lieutenant: Port of Name New Orleans), Scott Cooper (Loopy Coronary heart, Out of the Furnace), Edward James Olmos (American Me), Philip Noyce (Clear and Current Hazard), Kevin Costner (The Postman) and Ed Harris (Pollock, Appaloosa).
In Die Exhausting 2, the actor performed Marvin, a janitor who helps Bruce Willis’ Lieutenant John McClane beat the dangerous guys. Actually, when McClane is lastly reunited together with his spouse within the movie’s denouement, it’s Marvin who picks them up in an airport cart and drives them off into the sundown.
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