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Tom Towles
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tom Towles (March 20, 1950 – April 2, 2015) was an American actor.
Towles was born and raised in Chicago. He became an actor after a stint in the U.S. Marines, beginning with an uncredited performance in Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He has appeared in film and television extensively since the 1980s. He is probably best known for his turn in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a character modeled after Ottis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas' reputed accomplice in several murders. He has also appeared in Night of the Living Dead, The Rock, Blood in Blood Out, House of 1000 Corpses, and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects. Recently Tom also portrayed a vicious drug traf…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tom Towles (March 20, 1950 – April 2, 2015) was an American actor. Towles was born and raised in Chicago. He became an actor after a stint in the U.S. Marines, beginning with an uncredited performance in Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He has appeared in film and television extensively since the 1980s. He is probably best known for his turn in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a character modeled after Ottis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas' reputed accomplice in several murders. He has also appeared in Night of the Living Dead, The Rock, Blood in Blood Out, House of 1000 Corpses, and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects. Recently Tom also portrayed a vicious drug trafficking Aryan gang leader in the big screen adaptation of Miami Vice (he played a similar role as Aryan prison gang leader Red Rider in Blood In Blood Out) and had a cameo in one of the faux trailers Werewolf Women of the SS in Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse. His television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, and Firefly. Towles died on April 2, 2015, at the age of 65, in a hospital in Pinellas, Florida of complications following a stroke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Towles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tom Towles's Filmography
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Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween
as Self
Blood on the Highway
as Louis Debois
Halloween
as Larry Redgrave
Home Sick
as Uncle Johnny
Grindhouse
as Lt. Boorman (segment "Werewolf Women of the SS")
Miami Vice
as Coleman
The Devil's Rejects
as Lieutenant George Wydell
House of 1000 Corpses
as Lieutenant George Wydell
House of 1000 Corpses
as George Wydell
Groom Lake
as Dietz
More Dogs Than Bones
as Detective Smith
Lansky
as Henchman at NYC Apartment
Doctor Dolittle
as German Shepherd (voice)
The Prophecy II
as Detective Waltrip
Night of the Lawyers
as Alien
Warriors of Virtue
as Grillo
Gridlock'd
as D-Reper's Henchman
The Rock
as Alcatraz Park Ranger
Normal Life
as Frank Anderson
Girls in Prison
as Norman Stoneface
Mad Dog and Glory
as Andrew the Beater
Bound by Honor
as Red Ryder
Fortress
as Stiggs
The Borrower
as Bob Laney
The Pit and the Pendulum
as Don Carlos
Night of the Living Dead
as Harry Cooper
Men Don't Leave
as Evan Taylor
Choice Chance Control
as Manny
High Mountain Rangers
as T.J. Cousins
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
as Otis
Pink Nights
as Ralph the Lounge Lizard
Dog Day Afternoon
as Cop (uncredited)