Tom Wright

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1952-11-29 (71 years old)

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

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

Actor

2024
Summer Camp

as Mike

2023
The Locksmith

as Chief Stern

2023
Daisy Jones & the Six

as Teddy Price

2022
That's Amor

as Henry

2021
True Story

as Shelly

2020
Medical Police

as Director Patten

2019
A Brother's Honor

as Ben Bradford

2019
#Truth

as Donald Cooper

2019
2018
Spell

as Edmund

2018
Higher Power

as Tom Davis

2018
The Rookie

as Colin Hall

2018
Station 19

as Battalion Chief Gregory

2018
9-1-1

as Buck's Doctor

2017
Inhumans: The First Chapter

as George Ashland

2017
Transformers: The Last Knight

as Military Attache

2017
2016
Within

as Detective Pascal

2016
South32

as Sgt. Kake

2016
The Last Bid

as Harris

2016
Rebirth

as The Expert

2016
Shooter

as Jason Colby

2016
Rush Hour

as Holt

2015
The Diabolical

as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)

2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania

as Detective Timms

2015
The Magicians

as Santa

2015
The Magicians

as Santa Claus

2014
Starting from Scratch

as Homeless Stan

2014
Beyond the Lights

as Reverend Brown

2013
2013
Ray Donovan

as Benito

2013
Ray Donovan

as Punch Hoffman

2012
1600 Penn

as Interviewer

2011
Rift

as Lietenant Neal

2011
Grimm

as Spencer Harrison

2011
Franklin & Bash

as Judge Gerald Whitman

2010
Burning Palms

as Maxwell Barron

2010
The Cursed

as Willie Gar

2010
Rizzoli & Isles

as Walt (Boston Pilgrims' attorney)

2009
Modern Family

as Security Guard

2009
Castle

as Fats Shepherd

2008
The Imposter

as Popeye

2008
Bohica

as Horowitz

2008
Crash

as Roger Paul

2008
The Mentalist

as Kevin Rome

2007
Honeydripper

as Cool Breeze

2007
Sinner

as Officer Thomas

2006
World Trade Center

as Officer Reynolds

2006
Striking Range

as John Hatem

2005
Chasing Ghosts

as Tom Shields

2005
American Fusion

as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah

2005
Ghost Whisperer

as Dave McKey

2005
The Inside

as Glenn Terry

2004
In Your Eyes

as Phil

2004
Barbershop 2: Back in Business

as Detective Williams

2004
House

as Dr. Pilcher

2003
Hangman's Curse

as Dan Carillo

2003
Betrayal

as Detective Stan

2003
NCIS

as Sam Kelleher

2003
The O.C.

as Paul Glass

2003
L.A. Dragnet

as Jay Delmore

2002
The Keyman

as Popeye

2002
Sunshine State

as Flash Phillips

2002
Contagion

as Tom Brenner

2002
Barbershop

as Detective Williams

2002
2002
Everwood

as Carl's Lawyer

2001
Layover

as Detective Mills

2001
The Prime Gig

as Marvin Sanders

2001
Alex in Wonder

as Sebastian

2001
24

as Admiral Kirkland

2001
24

as Rear Admiral Kirkland

2001
2000
2000
1999
Funny Valentines

as Dr. Thomas Holder

1999
Family Law

as Roscoe

1998
The Pentagon Wars

as Major William Sayers

1998
Palmetto

as John Renick

1998
Martial Law

as Capt. Benjamin Winship

1997
Murder at 1600

as Cooper

1996
Playing Dangerous 2

as Alton Broom

1995
1995
Tales from the Hood

as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")

1995
Forget Paris

as Tommy

1995
Extreme

as Farley Potts

1995
1994
Men of War

as Jamaal

1994
1994
ER

as Wharton

1994
Viper

as Travis Parker

1993
Amityville: A New Generation

as Morgue Attendant

1993
Acting on Impulse

as Dave Byers

1993
1992
Passion Fish

as Luther

1992
Past Midnight

as Lee Samuels

1991
Dead in the Water

as Hotel Clerk

1991
City of Hope

as Malik

1991
Roc

as David

1990
Street Hunter

as Riley

1990
Marked for Death

as Charles

1990
1989
1989
Troop Beverly Hills

as James Shakar

1989
Vietnam War Story: The Last Days

as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")

1989
Seinfeld

as Mr Morgan

1989
Seinfeld

as Mr. Morgan

1988
1987
Matewan

as Tom

1987
Creepshow 2

as The Hitchhiker

1987
A Different World

as John Holtworth

1987
21 Jump Street

as Fred Clairman

1987
21 Jump Street

as A.D.A. Lamar, Judy's Date

1986
L.A. Law

as D.A. Prentiss Scott

1985
Streetwalkin'

as Henchman #1

1984
1984
Delta Pi

as Party Heckler

1984
Alphabet City

as Chauffeur

1982
The Soldier

as Faux Businessman

1981
Subway Riders

as On the Waterfront

1980
1977
Tomcats

as Old Man

Director

2020
Walkaway Joe

as Director

2014
Constantine

as Director

2003
NCIS

as Director

Crew