Tom Wright
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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".
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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
as Military Attache
World Trade Center (2006)
as Officer Reynolds
Marked for Death (1990)
as Charles
Barbershop (2002)
as Detective Williams
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
as Brothel Man
Murder at 1600 (1997)
as Cooper
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
as Jack
#truth (2019)
as Donald Cooper
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
as Detective Williams
Alphabet City (1984)
as Chauffeur
Palmetto (1998)
as John Renick
My Fellow Americans (1996)
as Jim
The Pentagon Wars (1998)
as Major William Sayers
Creepshow 2 (1987)
as The Hitchhiker
The Onion Movie (2008)
as Kwame Roberts
Within (2016)
as Detective Pascal
Passion Fish (1992)
as Luther
Gridlock'd (1997)
as Koolaid
The Locksmith (2023)
as Chief Stern
Rift (2011)
as Lietenant Neal
Matewan (1987)
as Tom
Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
as Shakar
The Darwin Awards (2007)
as Detective
Tales from the Hood (1995)
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")
Live! (2007)
as Dr. Raymond Boyd
Layover (2001)
as Detective Mills
Forget Paris (1995)
as Tommy
Men of War (1994)
as Jamaal
Message from the King (2017)
as Waylon
Betrayal (2003)
as Detective Stan
Beyond the Lights (2014)
as Reverend Brown
Exterminator 2 (1984)
as Youth
Streetwalkin' (1985)
as Henchman #1
Burning Palms (2010)
as Maxwell Barron
The Neighborhood (2017)
as Jim Beam, Bourbon
Inhumans: The First Chapter (2017)
as George Ashland
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
as Detective Timms
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
as Sam
Subway Riders (1981)
as On the Waterfront
City of Hope (1991)
as Malik
Sunshine State (2002)
as Flash Phillips
Bohica (2008)
as Horowitz
A Brother's Honor (2019)
as Ben Bradford
Honeydripper (2007)
as Cool Breeze
Heart of Dixie (1989)
as Black Man at Concert
The Diabolical (2015)
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright)
Pursuit of Happiness (2001)
as Thom
Alex in Wonder (2001)
as Sebastian
Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
as Morgue Attendant
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
as Marvel Sears
Vault of Horror I (1994)
as Mitch (archive footage)
That's Amor (2022)
as Henry
Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
as Grant Thompson
The Divorce Party (2019)
as Sacks
White Man's Burden (1995)
as Lionel
Menno's Mind (1997)
as Jor Norwell, executed rebel (uncredited)
The Secrets of Emily Blair (2016)
as Detective Gorodetsky
Summer Camp (2024)
as Mike
Rebirth (2016)
as The Expert
Street Hunter (1990)
as Riley
Past Midnight (1992)
as Lee Samuels
Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
as Charles
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
as Baseball Fan
Dead in the Water (1991)
as Hotel Clerk
Gully (2021)
as Principal West
A Beautiful Soul (2012)
as Brother Anthony Clark
Contagion (2002)
as Tom Brenner
American Fusion (2005)
as Dr. Lee / Lethal Killah
Murder in Black and White (1990)
as Walt Payne
Chasing Ghosts (2005)
as Tom Shields
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
as Bryant
The Prime Gig (2001)
as Marvin Sanders
Runaway Island (2015)
as Raymond Tepper
The Soldier (1982)
as Faux Businessman
Higher Power (2018)
as Tom Davis
P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2002)
as Fred Gable
Hangman's Curse (2003)
as Dan Carillo
Striking Range (2006)
as John Hatem
The Keyman (2002)
as Popeye
Acting on Impulse (1993)
as Dave Byers
Delta Pi (1984)
as Party Heckler
The Cursed (2010)
as Willie Gar
The Beanfield (2020)
Actor
Tomcats (1977)
as Old Man
Breakdance Academy (2010)
as Pete
The Last Bid (2016)
as Harris
Things Never Said (2013)
as Daniel
Funny Valentines (1999)
as Dr. Thomas Holder
In Your Eyes (2004)
as Phil
South32 (2016)
as Sgt. Kake
Vietnam War Story: The Last Days (1989)
as Captain Berry (segment "The Last Outpost")
Sinner (2007)
as Officer Thomas
Playing Dangerous 2 (1996)
as Alton Broom
The Imposter (2008)
as Popeye
Underground U.S.A. (1980)
as Frank
Starting from Scratch (2014)
as Homeless Stan
Spell (2018)
as Edmund
Johnny Bull (1986)
as Paulie
Still Happy (2019)
as George Haliday
OK Today Tomorrow (1983)
Actor