About
Tom Wright
Overview
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
Acting |
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2024 | Summer Camp | Actor | Mike | 58 Average |
2023 | Daisy Jones & the Six | Actor | Teddy Price | 76 Good |
2023 | The Locksmith | Actor | Chief Stern | 58 Average |
2022 | That's Amor | Actor | Henry | 57 Average |
2019 | A Brother's Honor | Actor | Ben Bradford | 59 Average |
2019 | #Truth | Actor | Donald Cooper | 58 Average |
2019 | The Divorce Party | Actor | Sacks | 58 Average |
2018 | Spell | Actor | Edmund | 58 Average |
2018 | Higher Power | Actor | Tom Davis | 57 Average |
2017 | Inhumans: The First Chapter | Actor | George Ashland | 57 Average |
2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Actor | Military Attache | 60 Fair |
2017 | Message from the King | Actor | Waylon | 60 Fair |
2016 | Within | Actor | Detective Pascal | 57 Average |
2016 | South32 | Actor | Sgt. Kake | N/A N/A |
2016 | The Last Bid | Actor | Harris | 58 Average |
2016 | Rebirth | Actor | The Expert | 55 Average |
2015 | The Diabolical | Actor | Curtis (as Thomas Wright) | 56 Average |
2015 | Stockholm, Pennsylvania | Actor | Detective Timms | 58 Average |
2014 | Starting from Scratch | Actor | Homeless Stan | 59 Average |
2014 | Beyond the Lights | Actor | Reverend Brown | 63 Fair |
2013 | Things Never Said | Actor | Daniel | 59 Average |
2011 | Rift | Actor | Lietenant Neal | 58 Average |
2010 | Burning Palms | Actor | Maxwell Barron | 58 Average |
2010 | The Cursed | Actor | Willie Gar | 58 Average |
2008 | The Imposter | Actor | Popeye | 59 Average |
2008 | Bohica | Actor | Horowitz | 59 Average |
2007 | Honeydripper | Actor | Cool Breeze | 59 Average |
2007 | Sinner | Actor | Officer Thomas | 58 Average |
2006 | World Trade Center | Actor | Officer Reynolds | 60 Fair |
2006 | Striking Range | Actor | John Hatem | 58 Average |
2006 | Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders | Actor | Bryant | 58 Average |
2005 | Chasing Ghosts | Actor | Tom Shields | 58 Average |
2005 | American Fusion | Actor | Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah | 59 Average |
2004 | In Your Eyes | Actor | Phil | N/A N/A |
2004 | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Actor | Detective Williams | 59 Average |
2003 | Hangman's Curse | Actor | Dan Carillo | 58 Average |
2003 | Betrayal | Actor | Detective Stan | 58 Average |
2002 | The Keyman | Actor | Popeye | 59 Average |
2002 | Sunshine State | Actor | Flash Phillips | 59 Average |
2002 | Contagion | Actor | Tom Brenner | 58 Average |
2002 | Barbershop | Actor | Detective Williams | 61 Fair |
2002 | P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! | Actor | Fred Gable | 58 Average |
2001 | Layover | Actor | Detective Mills | 58 Average |
2001 | The Prime Gig | Actor | Marvin Sanders | 59 Average |
2001 | Alex in Wonder | Actor | Sebastian | 58 Average |
2001 | Pursuit of Happiness | Actor | Thom | 58 Average |
1999 | Funny Valentines | Actor | Dr. Thomas Holder | 59 Average |
1998 | Martial Law | Actor | Capt. Benjamin Winship | 70 Good |
1998 | The Pentagon Wars | Actor | Major William Sayers | 59 Average |
1998 | Palmetto | Actor | John Renick | 58 Average |
1997 | Murder at 1600 | Actor | Cooper | 59 Average |
1996 | My Fellow Americans | Actor | Jim | 59 Average |
1996 | Playing Dangerous 2 | Actor | Alton Broom | 59 Average |
1995 | White Man's Burden | Actor | Lionel | 57 Average |
1995 | Excessive Force II: Force on Force | Actor | Grant Thompson | 58 Average |
1995 | Tales from the Hood | Actor | Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation") | 59 Average |
1995 | Forget Paris | Actor | Tommy | 59 Average |
1995 | Extreme | Actor | Farley Potts | N/A N/A |
1994 | Men of War | Actor | Jamaal | 57 Average |
1994 | Vault of Horror I | Actor | Mitch | 59 Average |
1993 | Amityville: A New Generation | Actor | Morgue Attendant | 56 Average |
1993 | Acting on Impulse | Actor | Dave Byers | 58 Average |
1993 | Weekend at Bernie's II | Actor | Charles | 55 Average |
1992 | Passion Fish | Actor | Luther | 59 Average |
1992 | Past Midnight | Actor | Lee Samuels | 58 Average |
1991 | Dead in the Water | Actor | Hotel Clerk | 58 Average |
1991 | City of Hope | Actor | Malik | 59 Average |
1990 | Street Hunter | Actor | Riley | 59 Average |
1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Actor | Jack | 61 Fair |
1990 | Marked for Death | Actor | Charles | 59 Average |
1990 | Murder in Black and White | Actor | Walt Payne | N/A N/A |
1989 | Troop Beverly Hills | Actor | James Shakar | 58 Average |
1989 | Troop Beverly Hills | Actor | Shakar | 58 Average |
1989 | Vietnam War Story: The Last Days | Actor | Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost") | N/A N/A |
1988 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Actor | Brothel Man | 60 Fair |
1987 | Matewan | Actor | Tom | 61 Fair |
1987 | Creepshow 2 | Actor | The Hitchhiker | 61 Fair |
1985 | Streetwalkin' | Actor | Henchman #1 | 58 Average |
1984 | Exterminator 2 | Actor | Youth | 57 Average |
1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | Actor | Sam | 60 Fair |
1984 | Delta Pi | Actor | Party Heckler | 58 Average |
1984 | Alphabet City | Actor | Chauffeur | 58 Average |
1983 | OK Today Tomorrow | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1982 | The Soldier | Actor | Faux Businessman | 58 Average |
1981 | Subway Riders | Actor | On the Waterfront | 59 Average |
1980 | Underground U.S.A. | Actor | Frank | 58 Average |
1977 | Tomcats | Actor | Old Man | 58 Average |
Directing |
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2020 | Walkaway Joe | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2009 | Digital Theatre: The Container | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
Crew |
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1989 | See No Evil, Hear No Evil | Crew | Stunts | 64 Fair |
1987 | The Secret of My Success | Crew | Stunts | 62 Fair |
1987 | Outrageous Fortune | Crew | Stunts | 59 Average |