Tom Wright
106 movies · 50 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 29, 1952 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Tom Shoemaker · Thomas Wright · Thomas J. Wright · Том Врайт
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".
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Known for
Tom Wright: movies and TV shows
Acting (150)
- 2024 Summer Camp
as Mike
- 2023
- 2023 The Locksmith
as Chief Stern
- 2022 That's Amor
as Henry
- 2021
- 2021 Gully
as Principal West
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019 A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford
- 2019 Still Happy
as George Haliday
- 2019 #truth
as Donald Cooper
- 2019 The Divorce Party
as Sacks
- 2018
- 2018 Spell
as Edmund
- 2018 Higher Power
as Tom Davis
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017 Inhumans: The First Chapter
as George Ashland
- 2017 The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon
- 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight
as Military Attache
- 2017 Message from the King
as Waylon
- 2016
- 2016 Within
as Detective Pascal
- 2016 The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky
- 2016 South32
as Sgt. Kake
- 2016 The Last Bid
as Harris
- 2016 Rebirth
as The Expert
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015 Runaway Island
as Raymond Tepper
- 2015 The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)
- 2015 Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms
- 2014 Starting from Scratch
as Homeless Stan
- 2014 Beyond the Lights
as Reverend Brown
- 2014 Star Trek: Enterprise - Storm Front
as Ghrath
- 2013 Things Never Said
as Daniel
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012 A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011 Rift
as Lietenant Neal
- 2010
- 2010 Breakdance Academy
as Pete
- 2010 Burning Palms
as Maxwell Barron
- 2010 The Cursed
as Willie Gar
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008 The Imposter
as Popeye
- 2008
- 2008 The Onion Movie
as Kwame Roberts
- 2008 Bohica
as Horowitz
- 2007 Live!
as Dr. Raymond Boyd
- 2007 Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze
- 2007
- 2007 The Darwin Awards
as Detective
- 2007 Sinner
as Officer Thomas
- 2006
- 2006 World Trade Center
as Officer Reynolds
- 2006 Striking Range
as John Hatem
- 2006 Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
as Bryant
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 Chasing Ghosts
as Tom Shields
- 2005
- 2005 American Fusion
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah
- 2004
- 2004 In Your Eyes
as Phil
- 2004 Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Detective Williams
- 2003
- 2003 Hangman's Curse
as Dan Carillo
- 2003
- 2003 Betrayal
as Detective Stan
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002 The Keyman
as Popeye
- 2002 Sunshine State
as Flash Phillips
- 2002 Barbershop
as Detective Williams
- 2002 P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable
- 2002 Contagion
as Tom Brenner
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001 Layover
as Detective Mills
- 2001 The Prime Gig
as Marvin Sanders
- 2001 Alex in Wonder
as Sebastian
- 2001 Pursuit of Happiness
as Thom
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1999 Funny Valentines
as Dr. Thomas Holder
- 1998
- 1998 The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers
- 1998 Palmetto
as John Renick
- 1997 Menno's Mind
as Jor Norwell, executed rebel (uncredited)
- 1997 Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Marvel Sears
- 1997 Murder at 1600
as Cooper
- 1997
- 1997 Gridlock'd
as Koolaid
- 1996 My Fellow Americans
as Jim
- 1996 Playing Dangerous 2
as Alton Broom
- 1995 White Man's Burden
as Lionel
- 1995 Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson
- 1995 Tales from the Hood
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")
- 1995 Forget Paris
as Tommy
- 1995
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994 Men of War
as Jamaal
- 1994 Vault of Horror I
as Mitch (archive footage)
- 1994
- 1993 Amityville: A New Generation
as Morgue Attendant
- 1993 Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers
- 1993 Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles
- 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
- 1990 Street Hunter
as Riley
- 1990 Reversal of Fortune
as Jack
- 1990 Marked for Death
as Charles
- 1990 Murder in Black and White
as Walt Payne
- 1989 Heart of Dixie
as Black Man at Concert
- 1989
- 1989 Troop Beverly Hills
as Shakar / James Shakar
- 1989 Vietnam War Story: The Last Days
as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")
- 1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Brothel Man
- 1987
- 1987 Matewan
as Tom
- 1987 Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker
- 1987
- 1986
- 1986 Johnny Bull
as Paulie
- 1985 Streetwalkin'
as Henchman #1
- 1984 Exterminator 2
as Youth
- 1984
- 1984 Delta Pi
as Party Heckler
- 1984 Alphabet City
as Chauffeur
- 1983
- 1982 The Soldier
as Faux Businessman
- 1982 I Ought to Be in Pictures
as Baseball Fan
- 1981 Subway Riders
as On the Waterfront
- 1980 Underground U.S.A.
as Frank
- 1977 Tomcats
as Old Man
Behind the camera (7)
- 2020 Walkaway Joe
Director
- 2014
- 2009 The Container
Director
- 2003
- 1989 See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Stunts
- 1987 The Secret of My Success
Stunts
- 1987 Outrageous Fortune
Stunts