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