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Tom Wright
Known for: ActingHarold 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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Murder at 1600
as Cooper 
Daisy Jones & the Six
as Teddy Price 
Higher Power
as Tom Davis 
Within
as Detective Pascal 
Reversal of Fortune
+1
as Jack 
Matewan
as Tom 
Summer Camp
+3
as Mike 
Past Midnight
as Lee Samuels 
Creepshow 2
as The Hitchhiker 
Barbershop
+3
as Detective Williams 
The Locksmith
+4
as Chief Stern 
Marked for Death
as Charles 
Gridlock'd
as Koolaid 
The Pentagon Wars
as Major William Sayers 
Tales from the Hood
as Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation") 
Troop Beverly Hills
as James Shakar 
Weekend at Bernie's II
as Charles 
Amityville: A New Generation
+2
as Morgue Attendant 
Walkaway Joe
+2
Director 
Men of War
as Jamaal 
White Man's Burden
as Lionel 
Message from the King
as Waylon 
Things Never Said
as Daniel 
+5 
Palmetto
+1
as John Renick 
The Diabolical
as Curtis (as Thomas Wright) 
Breakdance Academy
as Pete 
Betrayal
+1
as Detective Stan 
That's Amor
as Henry 
Honeydripper
as Cool Breeze 
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Detective Timms 
Striking Range
as John Hatem 
The Divorce Party
as Sacks 
Excessive Force II: Force on Force
as Grant Thompson 
Layover
as Detective Mills 
Alphabet City
as Chauffeur 
Rebirth
as The Expert 
Rift
as Lietenant Neal 
The Secrets of Emily Blair
as Detective Gorodetsky 
Acting on Impulse
as Dave Byers 
A Beautiful Soul
as Brother Anthony Clark 
The Neighborhood
as Jim Beam, Bourbon 
A Brother's Honor
as Ben Bradford 
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
as Fred Gable 
Street Hunter
as Riley 
The Container
Director 
Contagion
as Tom Brenner 
The Cursed
as Willie Gar 
The Imposter
as Popeye