Tom Bower (actor)

For the British author, see Tom Bower.

Ralph Thomas Bower (January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Marvin, a janitor in the 1990 film Die Hard 2. He appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles, including Nixon (as Francis A. Nixon) and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.^[1] He appeared in Chris Chan Lee's 2006 film Undoing.^[2]

Tom Bower
Bower in 2013
Born	Ralph Thomas Bower (1938-01-03)January 3, 1938 Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Died	May 30, 2024(2024-05-30) (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1973–2024

Bower died in Los Angeles on May 30, 2024, at the age of 86.^[3][4]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Two-Minute Warning	Decker, S.W.A.T. Team Member
1978	The Dain Curse	Sergeant O'Gar
	The Winds of Kitty Hawk	William Tate
1982	The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez	Boone Choate
1984	Wildrose	Rick Ogaard
	Massive Retaliation	Kirk Fredericks
1985	The Lightship	Coop
1986	River's Edge	Detective Bennett
1987	Beverly Hills Cop II	Russ Fielding
1988	Split Decisions	Detective Walsh
	Distant Thunder	Louis
1989	True Believer	Cecil Skell
	Wired	Detective
1990	Die Hard 2	Marvin
1991	Talent for the Game	Reverend Bodeen
1992	Aces: Iron Eagle III	DEA Agent Warren Crawford
	Raising Cain	Sergeant Cally
1993	Relentless 3	Captain Phelan
1994	Against the Wall (TV Movie)	Ed
	Clear and Present Danger	Clark's pilot[4]	Uncredited in end credits
1995	Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog	John Gale
	Georgia	Erwin Flood
	White Man's Burden	Stanley
	Nixon	Frank Nixon
1997	Buffalo Soldiers (TV Movie)	General Pike
	The Killing Jar	Jake Pestone
1998	Poodle Springs (TV Movie)	Arnie Burns
1999	A Slipping-Down Life	Mr. Decker
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Hector
	Pollock	Dan Miller
2001	Going Greek	Bill
	Hearts in Atlantis	Len Files
2002	The Laramie Project (TV Movie)	Father Roger Schmit
	High Crimes	FBI Agent Mullins
	The Badge	'Bull' Hardwick
2005	The Amateurs	Floyd
	North Country	Gray Suchett
2006	The Hills Have Eyes	Gas Station Attendant
	Undoing	Don
	Three	Uncle Eugene Parson
2008	Familiar Strangers	Frank Worthington
	Appaloosa	Abner Raines
	Gospel Hill	Jack Herrod
2009	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans	Pat McDonagh
	For Sale by Owner	Sheriff O'Hare
	Crazy Heart	Bill Wilson
2010	The Killer Inside Me	Sheriff Bob Maples
2011	I Melt with You	Captain Bob
2013	Out of the Furnace	Dan Dugan
2014	13 Sins	Father
	The Ever After	Father O'Meara
	Runoff	Scratch
2015	Lamb	Foster
2018	Light of My Life	Tom
2019	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Lou
	Senior Love Triangle	William Selig
2020	Fully Realized Humans	Richard
2023	We Have a Ghost	Ernest Scheller

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974, 1976	The Rockford Files	Jeff Cooperman / Officer Hensley	2 episodes
1975–1978	The Waltons	Dr. Curtis Willard / Rex Barker	26 episodes
1976	The Bionic Woman	Ted Ryan	1 episode
1979	Lou Grant	Lind	1 episode
	Barnaby Jones	Baxter	1 episode
1981–1986	Hill Street Blues	De Petrus / Narcotics Cop	3 episodes
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Jonathan Bailey	1 episode
1985	Misfits of Science	Jeffries	1 episode
	Miami Vice	Detective Carter	1 episode
1990	China Beach	Archie Winslow	Episode: "Thanks of a Grateful Nation" (Season 3 Episode 17)
1991	Love, Lies and Murder	Leverette
1999	The X-Files	Sheriff Harden	1 episode (Season 7, Episode 5)
1999–2000	Roswell	Hubble	1 episode (Season 1, Episode 13)
2000	The West Wing	General Ed Barrie	1 episode
2005	Cold Case	Curtis Collins
2008	Monk	Bennie Wentworth	1 episode
2005, 2012	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Heinrich "Pop-Pop" Landgraf	2 episodes
2013	Criminal Minds	Damon Miller
	Grey's Anatomy	Mr. Shultz	1 episode
2023	Lucky Hank	Henry Devereaux Sr.	3 episodes (final appearance)