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