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\n\tTom Bower<\/a>, the veteran character actor finest identified for outstanding activates The Waltons<\/a><\/em> and in Die Hard 2<\/a><\/em>, has died. A member of the family confirmed the information to Deadline\u2019s sister publication The Hollywood Reporter. He was 86.<\/p>\n \n\tBower by no means had what one may name a \u201cbreakout\u201d 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<\/em> and plenty of different TV staples of the \u201970s, \u201980s, \u201990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n \n\tAnd he stored on working. In the previous 15 years, Bower was on Ray Donovan<\/em>, Bosch<\/em>, Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, Criminal Minds<\/em>, The Office<\/em> and It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>. He additionally performed the daddy of Bob Odenkirk\u2019s character on Lucky Hank<\/em> and had an element in Vince Gilligan\u2019s El Camino, A Breaking Bad Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tBower noticed probably the most display time on CBS\u2019 hit The Waltons<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n \n\tMary McDonough, who performed Erin Walton, wrote on studying of Bower\u2019s passing, \u201cSad to hear we lost our \u2018brother in law\u2019 Curt. Rest in peace Tom Bower.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOn the massive display, Bower labored with outstanding administrators similar to John Cassavetes (Shadows<\/em>), Oliver Stone (Nixon<\/em>), Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans<\/em>), Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart<\/em>, Out of the Furnace<\/em>), Edward James Olmos (American Me<\/em>), Philip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger<\/em>), Kevin Costner (The Postman<\/em>) and Ed Harris (Pollock<\/em>, Appaloosa<\/em>).<\/p>\n \n\tIn Die Hard 2<\/em>, the actor performed Marvin, a janitor who helps Bruce Willis\u2019 Lieutenant John McClane beat the unhealthy guys. In reality, when McClane is lastly reunited together with his spouse within the movie\u2019s denouement, it’s Marvin who picks them up in an airport cart and drives them off into the sundown.<\/p>\n \n\tDEADLINE RELATED VIDEO: <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] 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\u2019s sister publication The Hollywood Reporter. He was 86. Bower by no means had what one may name a \u201cbreakout\u201d half, however he was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[736,2381,886,4505,5466],"class_list":{"0":"post-132392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-die","10":"tag-hard","11":"tag-veteran","12":"tag-waltons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}