Tom Wright

Tom Wright

  • Birthday: 1952-11-29
  • Place of birth: Englewood, New Jersey, USA
  • Also know as: Tom Shoemaker

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".

Filmography

Marked for Death

1990

As Charles

Weekend at Bernie's II

1993

As Charles

Murder at 1600

1997

As Cooper

Passion Fish

1992

As Luther

Chasing Ghosts

2005

As Tom Shields

The Pentagon Wars

1998

As Major William Sayers

Creepshow 2

1987

As The Hitchhiker

Hangman's Curse

2003

As Dan Carillo

Past Midnight

1992

As Lee Samuels

The Keyman

2002

As Popeye

The Imposter

2008

As Popeye

Vietnam War Story: The Last Days

1989

As Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")

Bohica

2008

As Horowitz

Alphabet City

1984

As Chauffeur

Layover

2001

As Detective Mills

Things Never Said

2013

As Daniel

Playing Dangerous 2

1996

As Alton Broom

Beyond the Lights

2014

As Reverend Brown

Tomcats

1977

As Old Man

Funny Valentines

1999

As Dr. Thomas Holder

Within

2016

As Detective Pascal

Starting from Scratch

2014

As Homeless Stan

Tales from the Hood

1995

As Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")

Underground U.S.A.

1980

As Frank

Amityville: A New Generation

1993

As Morgue Attendant

American Fusion

2005

As Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah

Rebirth

2016

As The Expert

Betrayal

2003

As Detective Stan

South32

2016

As Sgt. Kake

Acting on Impulse

1993

As Dave Byers

The Cursed

2010

As Willie Gar

Stockholm, Pennsylvania

2015

As Detective Timms

Message from the King

2017

As Waylon

Contagion

2002

As Tom Brenner

Excessive Force II: Force on Force

1995

As Grant Thompson

Burning Palms

2010

As Maxwell Barron

Transformers: The Last Knight

2017

As Military Attache

Inhumans: The First Chapter

2017

As George Ashland

The Diabolical

2015

As Curtis (as Thomas Wright)

In Your Eyes

2004

As Phil

The Soldier

1982

As Faux Businessman

Street Hunter

1990

As Riley

Sunshine State

2002

As Flash Phillips

City of Hope

1991

As Malik

Matewan

1987

As Tom

Higher Power

2018

As Tom Davis

White Man's Burden

1995

As Lionel

Barbershop

2002

As Detective Williams

Honeydripper

2007

As Cool Breeze

Spell

2018

As Edmund

The Last Bid

2016

As Harris

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!

2002

As Fred Gable

The Divorce Party

2019

As Sacks

World Trade Center

2006

As Officer Reynolds

Subway Riders

1981

As On the Waterfront

Sinner

2007

As Officer Thomas

Vault of Horror I

1994

As Mitch

Reversal of Fortune

1990

As Jack

Dead in the Water

1991

As Hotel Clerk

Palmetto

1998

As John Renick

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

2004

As Detective Williams

Streetwalkin'

1985

As Henchman #1

Troop Beverly Hills

1989

As James Shakar

The Prime Gig

2001

As Marvin Sanders

Forget Paris

1995

As Tommy

A Brother's Honor

2019

As Ben Bradford

Men of War

1994

As Jamaal

Murder in Black and White

1990

As Walt Payne

Alex in Wonder

2001

As Sebastian

Striking Range

2006

As John Hatem

#Truth

2019

As Donald Cooper

That's Amor

2022

As Henry

Rift

2011

As Lietenant Neal

The Locksmith

2023

As Chief Stern

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

1988

As Brothel Man

Summer Camp

2024

As

Troop Beverly Hills

1989

As Shakar

Delta Pi

1984

As Party Heckler

Exterminator 2

1984

As Youth

Production

Walkaway Joe

2020

As Director

Outrageous Fortune

1987

As Stunts

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