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Tom Towles

Mar 20, 1950 - Apr 02, 2015 (65 years old) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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.

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Known For

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Seinfeld
Tough Guy
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Hon'Tihl
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Star Trek: Voyager
Dr. Vatm
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Malcolm in the Middle
Ethan
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The Drew Carey Show
Detective Streible
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NYPD Blue
Inspector Anthony Lastarza
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Crossing Jordan
Bull Williamson
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ER
Teenage Boy's Father
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3rd Rock from the Sun
Dale
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Pacific Blue
Baron

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