Tom Bower, the veteran character actor finest identified for outstanding activates The Waltons and in Die Hard 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, all over the place. His greater than 180 display credit embrace appearances on The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, Quincy M.E., Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, The X-Files, Law & Order and plenty of different TV staples of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s.
And he stored on working. In the previous 15 years, Bower was on Ray Donovan, Bosch, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, The Office and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He additionally performed the daddy of Bob Odenkirk’s character on Lucky Hank and had an element in Vince Gilligan’s El Camino, A Breaking Bad Movie.
Bower noticed probably the most display time on CBS’ hit The Waltons. He was featured on 27 episodes of the landmark sequence, 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 conflict.
Mary McDonough, who performed Erin Walton, wrote on studying of Bower’s passing, “Sad to hear we lost our ‘brother in law’ Curt. Rest in peace Tom Bower.”
On the massive display, Bower labored with outstanding administrators similar to John Cassavetes (Shadows), Oliver Stone (Nixon), Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace), Edward James Olmos (American Me), Philip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger), Kevin Costner (The Postman) and Ed Harris (Pollock, Appaloosa).
In Die Hard 2, the actor performed Marvin, a janitor who helps Bruce Willis’ Lieutenant John McClane beat the unhealthy guys. In reality, 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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