
Acting
Tom Wright
EN cinema · 106 credits
Born
29 November 1952 (age 73)
Birthplace
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Also known as Tom Shoemaker · Thomas Wright · Thomas J. Wright · Том Врайт · Том Райт · Harold Thomas Wright
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".
Known for
Filmography

Summer Camp
as Mike

The Locksmith
as Chief Stern

That's Amor
as Henry

Gully
as Principal West

Walkaway Joe
Director

The Divorce Party
as Sacks

A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford

Still Happy
as George Haliday

#truth
as Donald Cooper

Higher Power
as Tom Davis

Spell
as Edmund

Message from the King
as Waylon

Transformers: The Last Knight
as Military Attache

Inhumans: The First Chapter
as George Ashland

The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon

Within
as Detective Pascal

Rebirth
as The Expert

South32
as Sgt. Kake

The Last Bid
as Harris

The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky

Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms

The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)

Runaway Island
as Raymond Tepper

Beyond the Lights
as Reverend Brown

Starting from Scratch
as Homeless Stan

Things Never Said
as Daniel

A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark

Rift
as Lietenant Neal

The Cursed
as Willie Gar

Burning Palms
as Maxwell Barron

The Container
Director

The Imposter
as Popeye
Bohica
2008
Bohica
as Horowitz

The Onion Movie
as Kwame Roberts

Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze

Sinner
as Officer Thomas

Live!
as Dr. Raymond Boyd

The Darwin Awards
as Detective

Striking Range
as John Hatem

World Trade Center
as Officer Reynolds

Chasing Ghosts
as Tom Shields

American Fusion
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah

In Your Eyes
as Phil

Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Detective Williams

Hangman's Curse
as Dan Carillo

Betrayal
as Detective Stan
The Keyman
2002
The Keyman
as Popeye

Contagion
as Tom Brenner

Sunshine State
as Flash Phillips

Barbershop
as Detective Williams

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

Alex in Wonder
as Sebastian

Layover
as Detective Mills

The Prime Gig
as Marvin Sanders

Funny Valentines
as Dr. Thomas Holder

The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers

Palmetto
as John Renick

Murder at 1600
as Cooper

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

Weapons of Mass Distraction
as Marvel Sears

Gridlock'd
as Koolaid

Playing Dangerous 2
as Alton Broom

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

Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson

White Man's Burden
as Lionel

Forget Paris
as Tommy

Vault of Horror I
as Mitch (archive footage)

Men of War
as Jamaal

Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles

Amityville: A New Generation
as Morgue Attendant

Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers

Passion Fish
as Luther

Past Midnight
as Lee Samuels

City of Hope
as Malik

Dead in the Water
as Hotel Clerk

Marked for Death
as Charles

Street Hunter
as Riley

Murder in Black and White
as Walt Payne

Troop Beverly Hills
as Shakar, as James Shakar

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

Heart of Dixie
as Black Man at Concert

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Brothel Man

Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker

Matewan
as Tom

Johnny Bull
as Paulie

Streetwalkin'
as Henchman #1

Alphabet City
as Chauffeur

Delta Pi
as Party Heckler

Exterminator 2
as Youth

The Soldier
as Faux Businessman

I Ought to Be in Pictures
as Baseball Fan

Subway Riders
as On the Waterfront

Underground U.S.A.
as Frank

Tomcats
as Old Man













