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".
★6.1
MOVIE2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Military Attache
★6.1
MOVIE2006
World Trade Center
as Officer Reynolds
★6.1
MOVIE1990
Marked for Death
as Charles
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Barbershop
as Detective Williams
★6.4
MOVIE1988
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Brothel Man
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Murder at 1600
as Cooper
★6.6
MOVIE1990
Reversal of Fortune
as Jack
★6.5
MOVIE2019
#truth
as Donald Cooper
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Detective Williams
★4.7
MOVIE1984
Alphabet City
as Chauffeur
★6.0
MOVIE1998
Palmetto
as John Renick
★6.1
MOVIE1996
My Fellow Americans
as Jim
★6.9
MOVIE1998
The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers
★6.2
MOVIE1987
Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker
★6.2
MOVIE2008
The Onion Movie
as Kwame Roberts
★5.5
MOVIE2016
Within
as Detective Pascal
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Passion Fish
as Luther
★6.6
MOVIE1997
Gridlock'd
as Koolaid
★5.9
MOVIE2023
The Locksmith
as Chief Stern
★2.6
MOVIE2011
Rift
as Lietenant Neal
★7.3
MOVIE1987
Matewan
as Tom
★5.7
MOVIE1989
Troop Beverly Hills
as Shakar
★5.7
MOVIE1989
Troop Beverly Hills
as James Shakar
★5.5
MOVIE2007
The Darwin Awards
as Detective
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Tales from the Hood
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")
★5.5
MOVIE2007
Live!
as Dr. Raymond Boyd
★4.8
MOVIE2001
Layover
as Detective Mills
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Forget Paris
as Tommy
★5.2
MOVIE1994
Men of War
as Jamaal
★6.2
MOVIE2017
Message from the King
as Waylon
★4.2
MOVIE2003
Betrayal
as Detective Stan
★6.8
MOVIE2014
Beyond the Lights
as Reverend Brown
★4.1
MOVIE1984
Exterminator 2
as Youth
★4.9
MOVIE1985
Streetwalkin'
as Henchman #1
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Burning Palms
as Maxwell Barron
★3.2
MOVIE2017
The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon
★5.3
MOVIE2017
Inhumans: The First Chapter
as George Ashland
★5.4
MOVIE2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms
★6.7
MOVIE1984
The Brother from Another Planet
as Sam
★7.2
MOVIE1981
Subway Riders
as On the Waterfront
★6.6
MOVIE1991
City of Hope
as Malik
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Sunshine State
as Flash Phillips
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Bohica
as Horowitz
★6.4
MOVIE2019
A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford
★5.9
MOVIE2007
Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze
★5.8
MOVIE1989
Heart of Dixie
as Black Man at Concert
★5.0
MOVIE2015
The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)
★5.4
MOVIE2001
Pursuit of Happiness
as Thom
★4.2
MOVIE2001
Alex in Wonder
as Sebastian
★4.3
MOVIE1993
Amityville: A New Generation
as Morgue Attendant
★5.2
MOVIE1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Marvel Sears
★5.3
MOVIE1994
Vault of Horror I
as Mitch (archive footage)
★5.1
MOVIE2022
That's Amor
as Henry
★3.8
MOVIE1995
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson
★5.0
MOVIE2019
The Divorce Party
as Sacks
★5.1
MOVIE1995
White Man's Burden
as Lionel
★5.1
MOVIE1997
Menno's Mind
as Jor Norwell, executed rebel (uncredited)
★4.3
MOVIE2016
The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky
★5.3
MOVIE2024
Summer Camp
as Mike
★4.7
MOVIE2016
Rebirth
as The Expert
★5.6
MOVIE1990
Street Hunter
as Riley
★5.1
MOVIE1992
Past Midnight
as Lee Samuels
★5.1
MOVIE1993
Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles
★6.8
MOVIE1982
I Ought to Be in Pictures
as Baseball Fan
★5.4
MOVIE1991
Dead in the Water
as Hotel Clerk
★4.9
MOVIE2021
Gully
as Principal West
★6.2
MOVIE2012
A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark
★4.3
MOVIE2002
Contagion
as Tom Brenner
★6.0
MOVIE2005
American Fusion
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah
★7.0
MOVIE1990
Murder in Black and White
as Walt Payne
★5.5
MOVIE2005
Chasing Ghosts
as Tom Shields
★5.6
MOVIE2006
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
as Bryant
★6.0
MOVIE2001
The Prime Gig
as Marvin Sanders
★10.0
MOVIE2015
Runaway Island
as Raymond Tepper
★5.3
MOVIE1982
The Soldier
as Faux Businessman
★5.1
MOVIE2018
Higher Power
as Tom Davis
★4.4
MOVIE2002
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable
★5.2
MOVIE2003
Hangman's Curse
as Dan Carillo
★4.2
MOVIE2006
Striking Range
as John Hatem
★6.2
MOVIE2002
The Keyman
as Popeye
★4.8
MOVIE1993
Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers
★4.0
MOVIE1984
Delta Pi
as Party Heckler
★4.1
MOVIE2010
The Cursed
as Willie Gar
MOVIE2020
The Beanfield
★4.0
MOVIE1977
Tomcats
as Old Man
MOVIE2010
Breakdance Academy
as Pete
★4.3
MOVIE2016
The Last Bid
as Harris
★6.2
MOVIE2013
Things Never Said
as Daniel
★7.7
MOVIE1999
Funny Valentines
as Dr. Thomas Holder
★7.5
MOVIE2004
In Your Eyes
as Phil
★1.0
MOVIE2016
South32
as Sgt. Kake
★8.0
MOVIE1989
Vietnam War Story: The Last Days
as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")
★3.6
MOVIE2007
Sinner
as Officer Thomas
★5.5
MOVIE1996
Playing Dangerous 2
as Alton Broom
★4.5
MOVIE2008
The Imposter
as Popeye
★4.8
MOVIE1980
Underground U.S.A.
as Frank
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Starting from Scratch
as Homeless Stan
★5.0
MOVIE2018
Spell
as Edmund
★5.5
MOVIE1986
Johnny Bull
as Paulie
MOVIE2019
Still Happy
as George Haliday
MOVIE1983