
Cast
Tom Wright
Acting
Cast
Tom Wright
Known for
Acting
Born
1952-11-29
From
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Also known as Tom Shoemaker, Thomas Wright, Thomas J. 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".

Transformers: The Last Knight
as Military Attache

Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker

Barbershop
as Detective Williams

Summer Camp
as Mike

Murder at 1600
as Cooper

World Trade Center
as Officer Reynolds

Marked for Death
as Charles

Passion Fish
as Luther

The Onion Movie
as Kwame Roberts

Message from the King
as Waylon

Tales from the Hood
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")

Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Detective Williams

Live!
as Dr. Raymond Boyd

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Brothel Man

Gridlock'd
as Koolaid

Gully
as Principal West

The Locksmith
as Chief Stern

Within
as Detective Pascal

Reversal of Fortune
as Jack

Forget Paris
as Tommy

Palmetto
as John Renick

Betrayal
as Detective Stan

Layover
as Detective Mills

Beyond the Lights
as Reverend Brown

Chasing Ghosts
as Tom Shields

Matewan
as Tom

Burning Palms
as Maxwell Barron

Men of War
as Jamaal

Streetwalkin'
as Henchman #1

The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky

Higher Power
as Tom Davis

Troop Beverly Hills
as Shakar

Troop Beverly Hills
as James Shakar

Contagion
as Tom Brenner

The Soldier
as Faux Businessman

City of Hope
as Malik

Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson

Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
as Bryant

The Darwin Awards
as Detective

The Brother from Another Planet
as Sam

Sunshine State
as Flash Phillips

Past Midnight
as Lee Samuels

Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze

Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Marvel Sears

Alphabet City
as Chauffeur

Rebirth
as The Expert

Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles

The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers

White Man's Burden
as Lionel

Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms

Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers

My Fellow Americans
as Jim

Amityville: A New Generation
as Morgue Attendant

The Keyman
as Popeye

The Prime Gig
as Marvin Sanders

Vault of Horror I
as Mitch (archive footage)

The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)

Menno's Mind
as Jor Norwell, executed rebel (uncredited)

Exterminator 2
as Youth

Striking Range
as John Hatem

That's Amor
as Henry

Alex in Wonder
as Sebastian

Inhumans: The First Chapter
as George Ashland

Heart of Dixie
as Black Man at Concert

The Cursed
as Willie Gar

The Last Bid
as Harris

Street Hunter
as Riley

The Divorce Party
as Sacks

American Fusion
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah

Pursuit of Happiness
as Thom

Breakdance Academy
as Pete

Things Never Said
as Daniel

Dead in the Water
as Hotel Clerk

Murder in Black and White
as Walt Payne

Runaway Island
as Raymond Tepper

A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark

The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon

A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford

Hangman's Curse
as Dan Carillo

Funny Valentines
as Dr. Thomas Holder

Johnny Bull
as Paulie

Sinner
as Officer Thomas

Spell
as Edmund

Delta Pi
as Party Heckler

Bohica
as Horowitz

Subway Riders
as On the Waterfront

Tomcats
as Old Man

South32
as Sgt. Kake

I Ought to Be in Pictures
as Baseball Fan

Underground U.S.A.
as Frank

Vietnam War Story: The Last Days
as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")

#truth
as Donald Cooper

Starting from Scratch
as Homeless Stan

Playing Dangerous 2
as Alton Broom

In Your Eyes
as Phil

Rift
as Lietenant Neal

P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable

The Imposter
as Popeye

Still Happy
as George Haliday

OK Today Tomorrow
