Tom Wright (American actor)

Tom Wright
Born	Harold Thomas Wright (1952-11-29) November 29, 1952 Englewood, New Jersey
Occupation	Actor

Tom Wright (born Harold Thomas Wright; November 29, 1952) is a television and theatre actor. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey and attended West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Career

Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions both on and off-Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Tom 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 Lousiville, 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 Juene Lune in Minneapolis starring in Farthest From The Sun with Steve Guttenberg. In 1987, he played a hitch-hiker 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 Constanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld.

Filmography

• Deadbeat (1977)
• Underground U.S.A. (1980)
• Subway Riders (1981)
• I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
• Matewan (1987)
• Creepshow 2 (1987)
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
• Marked for Death (1990)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• City of Hope (1991)
• Passion Fish (1992)
• Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
• Forget Paris (1995)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• Tales from the Hood (1995)
• Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
• Gridlock'd (1996)
• Murder at 1600 (1997)
• The Pentagon Wars (1998)
• Palmetto (1998)
• Dumbarton Bridge (1999)
• Funny Valentines (1999)
• Chain of Command (2000)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• Barbershop (2002)
• White Rush (2003)
• Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Sinner (2007)
• Honeydripper (2007)
• Burning Palms (2009)
• Stanley DeBrock (2010)
• Blackbird (2014)

TV appearances

Year	Series	Episodes
1991	Tales from the Crypt	Abra Cadaver
1996	NYPD Blue	The Backboard Jungle, Where's Swaldo
	Star Trek: Voyager	Tuvix
1998-1999	Martial Law	22 episodes
2004	Star Trek: Enterprise	Ghrath
2006	24	Day 5, 3:00am–4:00am and 5:00am–6:00am
2007	House	Guardian Angels
2010	Modern Family	Airport 2010 (Security guard)
2013	The Mentalist	There Will Be Blood

External links

• Tom Wright at IMDb