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Tom Wright

Born 1952-11-29
📍 Englewood, New Jersey, USA

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 151

Summer Camp
as Mike
2024
Daisy Jones & the Six
as Teddy Price
2023
The Locksmith
as Chief Stern
2023
That's Amor
as Henry
2022
True Story
as Shelly
2021
Gully
as Principal West
2021
The Beanfield
2020
Medical Police
as Director Patten
2020
A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford
2019
Still Happy
as George Haliday
2019
#truth
as Donald Cooper
2019
The Divorce Party
as Sacks
2019
The Rookie
as Colin Hall
2018
Spell
as Edmund
2018
Higher Power
as Tom Davis
2018
Station 19
as Battalion Chief Gregory
2018
9-1-1
as Buck's Doctor
2018
Marvel's Inhumans
as George Ashland
2017
Inhumans: The First Chapter
as George Ashland
2017
The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Military Attache
2017
Message from the King
as Waylon
2017
Shooter
as Jason Colby
2016
Within
as Detective Pascal
2016
The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky
2016
South32
as Sgt. Kake
2016
The Last Bid
as Harris
2016
Rebirth
as The Expert
2016
Rush Hour
as Holt
2016
The Magicians
as Santa
2015
The Magicians
as Santa Claus
2015
Runaway Island
as Raymond Tepper
2015
The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)
2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms
2015
Starting from Scratch
as Homeless Stan
2014
Beyond the Lights
as Reverend Brown
2014
Things Never Said
as Daniel
2013
Ray Donovan
as Benito
2013
Ray Donovan
as Punch Hoffman
2013
1600 Penn
as Interviewer
2012
A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark
2012
Grimm
as Spencer Harrison
2011
Franklin & Bash
as Judge Gerald Whitman
2011
Rift
as Lietenant Neal
2011
Rizzoli & Isles
as Walt (Boston Pilgrims' attorney)
2010
Breakdance Academy
as Pete
2010
Burning Palms
as Maxwell Barron
2010
The Cursed
as Willie Gar
2010
Modern Family
as Security Guard
2009
Dark Blue
as Freddy
2009
Castle
as Fats Shepherd
2009
Crash
as Roger Paul
2008
The Imposter
as Popeye
2008
The Mentalist
as Kevin Rome
2008
The Onion Movie
as Kwame Roberts
2008
Live!
as Dr. Raymond Boyd
2007
Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze
2007
Saving Grace
as Governor's Protection Agent
2007
The Darwin Awards
as Detective
2007
Sinner
as Officer Thomas
2007
Shark
as Deputy Police Chief George Martinson
2006
World Trade Center
as Officer Reynolds
2006
Striking Range
as John Hatem
2006
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
as Bryant
2006
Ghost Whisperer
as Dave McKey
2005
Close to Home
as Judge Jenkins
2005
The Inside
as Glenn Terry
2005
Chasing Ghosts
as Tom Shields
2005
Numb3rs
as Coach Harry Streeling
2005
American Fusion
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah
2005
House
as Dr. Pilcher
2004
In Your Eyes
as Phil
2004
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Detective Williams
2004
NCIS
as Sam Kelleher
2003
Hangman's Curse
as Dan Carillo
2003
The O.C.
as Paul Glass
2003
Betrayal
as Detective Stan
2003
Nip/Tuck
as Detective Albert Chavies
2003
L.A. Dragnet
as Jay Delmore
2003
Everwood
as Carl's Lawyer
2002
Sunshine State
as Flash Phillips
2002
Contagion
as Tom Brenner
2002
Barbershop
as Detective Williams
2002
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable
2002
24
as Admiral Kirkland
2001
24
as Rear Admiral Kirkland
2001
Star Trek: Enterprise
as Ghrath
2001
Layover
as Detective Mills
2001
The Prime Gig
as Marvin Sanders
2001
Alex in Wonder
as Sebastian
2001
Pursuit of Happiness
as Thom
2001
The Division
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Jake Daniels
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Robert Harris
2000
Family Law
as Roscoe
1999
Funny Valentines
as Dr. Thomas Holder
1999
Martial Law
as Capt. Benjamin Winship
1998
The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers
1998
Palmetto
as John Renick
1998
Menno's Mind
as Jor Norwell, executed rebel (uncredited)
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Marvel Sears
1997
Murder at 1600
as Cooper
1997
Gridlock'd
as Koolaid
1997
My Fellow Americans
as Jim
1996
Playing Dangerous 2
as Alton Broom
1996
White Man's Burden
as Lionel
1995
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson
1995
Tales from the Hood
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")
1995
Forget Paris
as Tommy
1995
Star Trek: Voyager
as Tuvix
1995
ER
as Wharton
1994
Chicago Hope
as Charlie Barrett
1994
Men of War
as Jamaal
1994
Vault of Horror I
as Mitch (archive footage)
1994
Viper
as Travis Parker
1994
Amityville: A New Generation
as Morgue Attendant
1993
Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers
1993
Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles
1993
Passion Fish
as Luther
1992
Past Midnight
as Lee Samuels
1992
Dead in the Water
as Hotel Clerk
1991
City of Hope
as Malik
1991
Roc
as David
1991
Street Hunter
as Riley
1990
Reversal of Fortune
as Jack
1990
Marked for Death
as Charles
1990
Murder in Black and White
as Walt Payne
1990
Heart of Dixie
as Black Man at Concert
1989
Seinfeld
as Mr Morgan
1989
Seinfeld
as Mr. Morgan
1989
Troop Beverly Hills
as Shakar
1989
Troop Beverly Hills
as James Shakar
1989
Vietnam War Story: The Last Days
as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")
1989
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Brothel Man
1988
A Different World
as John Holtworth
1987
Matewan
as Tom
1987
Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker
1987
21 Jump Street
as Judy's Date
1987
L.A. Law
as D.A. Prentiss Scott
1986
Johnny Bull
as Paulie
1986
Streetwalkin'
as Henchman #1
1985
Exterminator 2
as Youth
1984
The Brother from Another Planet
as Sam
1984
Delta Pi
as Party Heckler
1984
Alphabet City
as Chauffeur
1984
OK Today Tomorrow
1983
The Soldier
as Faux Businessman
1982
I Ought to Be in Pictures
as Baseball Fan
1982
Subway Riders
as On the Waterfront
1981
Underground U.S.A.
as Frank
1980
Tomcats
as Old Man
1977