Tom Wright

Birthday: 1952-11-29
Birthplace: Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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".

Credits

Year Title Character
2024-05-31 Summer Camp Mike
2023-02-03 The Locksmith Chief Stern
2022-08-25 That's Amor Henry
2021-06-04 Gully Principal West
2020-03-24 The Beanfield
2019-09-18 A Brother's Honor Ben Bradford
2019-02-15 #Truth Donald Cooper
2019-02-14 The Divorce Party Sacks
2018-10-11 Spell Edmund
2018-05-11 Higher Power Tom Davis
2017-09-01 Inhumans: The First Chapter George Ashland
2017-08-18 The Neighborhood Jim Beam, Bourbon
2017-06-16 Transformers: The Last Knight Military Attache
2017-05-10 Message from the King Waylon
2016-10-18 Within Detective Pascal
2016-10-01 The Secrets of Emily Blair Detective Gorodetsky
2016-07-04 South32 Sgt. Kake
2016-04-25 The Last Bid Harris
2016-04-17 Rebirth The Expert
2015-06-12 Runaway Island Raymond Tepper
2015-03-16 The Diabolical Curtis (as Thomas Wright)
2015-01-23 Stockholm, Pennsylvania Detective Timms
2014-11-24 Starting from Scratch Homeless Stan
2014-11-14 Beyond the Lights Reverend Brown
2013-09-06 Things Never Said Daniel
2012-05-04 A Beautiful Soul Brother Anthony Clark
2011-05-15 Rift Lietenant Neal
2010-04-23 Burning Palms Maxwell Barron
2010-02-06 The Cursed Willie Gar
2008-10-12 The Imposter Popeye
2008-04-12 Bohica Horowitz
2007-11-01 Live! Dr. Raymond Boyd
2007-09-10 Honeydripper Cool Breeze
2007-03-26 Sinner Officer Thomas
2006-08-09 World Trade Center Officer Reynolds
2006-06-01 Striking Range John Hatem
2006-01-10 Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders Bryant
2005-05-11 Chasing Ghosts Tom Shields
2005-01-01 American Fusion Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah
2004-02-01 In Your Eyes Phil
2004-01-20 Barbershop 2: Back in Business Detective Williams
2003-09-12 Hangman's Curse Dan Carillo
2003-08-01 Betrayal Detective Stan
2002-08-02 The Keyman Popeye
2002-06-21 Sunshine State Flash Phillips
2002-05-15 Contagion Tom Brenner
2002-04-01 Barbershop Detective Williams
2002-02-22 P.S. Your Cat is Dead! Fred Gable
2001-08-22 Layover Detective Mills
2001-04-24 The Prime Gig Marvin Sanders
2001-03-09 Alex in Wonder Sebastian
2001-01-17 Pursuit of Happiness Thom
1999-02-14 Funny Valentines Dr. Thomas Holder
1998-02-28 The Pentagon Wars Major William Sayers
1998-02-20 Palmetto John Renick
1997-04-18 Murder at 1600 Cooper
1997-04-12 Gun Mickey
1996-12-20 My Fellow Americans Jim
1996-06-06 Playing Dangerous 2 Alton Broom
1995-12-01 White Man's Burden Lionel
1995-08-29 Excessive Force II: Force on Force Grant Thompson
1995-05-24 Tales from the Hood Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")
1995-05-19 Forget Paris Tommy
1994-09-03 Men of War Jamaal
1994-07-02 Vault of Horror I Mitch
1993-09-29 Amityville: A New Generation Morgue Attendant
1993-07-10 Acting on Impulse Dave Byers
1993-07-09 Weekend at Bernie's II Charles
1992-12-11 Passion Fish Luther
1992-05-03 Past Midnight Lee Samuels
1991-12-04 Dead in the Water Hotel Clerk
1991-10-11 City of Hope Malik
1990-11-02 Street Hunter Riley
1990-10-19 Reversal of Fortune Jack
1990-10-05 Marked for Death Charles
1990-01-07 Murder in Black and White Walt Payne
1989-03-24 Troop Beverly Hills Shakar
1989-03-24 Troop Beverly Hills James Shakar
1989-01-01 Vietnam War Story: The Last Days Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")
1988-11-10 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Brothel Man
1987-08-28 Matewan Tom
1987-05-01 Creepshow 2 The Hitchhiker
1985-09-20 Streetwalkin' Henchman #1
1984-09-14 Exterminator 2 Youth
1984-09-07 The Brother from Another Planet Sam
1984-04-01 Delta Pi Party Heckler
1984-03-04 Alphabet City Chauffeur
1983-01-01 OK Today Tomorrow
1982-06-01 The Soldier Faux Businessman
1981-04-02 Subway Riders On the Waterfront
1980-11-06 Underground U.S.A. Frank
1977-04-01 Tomcats Old Man