Tom Towles

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Tom Towles (born March 20, 1950 in Chicago , Illinois , † April 2, 2015 in Pinellas County , Florida ) was an American actor .

Life

Towles grew up in Chicago and joined the US Marine Corps after high school . After retiring from the Marines in the early 1970s, he first studied photography and later acting at Columbia College Chicago . In 1971 he was a member of the Stuart Gordons Organic Theater ensemble, where he appeared in the three-part science fiction saga Warp! with, which became a cult success in Chicago and even made a brief guest appearance on New York's Broadway in 1973 . The Organics , which later brought the first professional production of a play by David Mamet ( Sexual Perversity in Chicago , June 1974) to the stage, included, in addition to Towles, actors such as John Heard , Dennis Franz , Bruce Taylor , Joe Mantegna and Warren Casey . Towles was a member of the ensemble until the 1980s, but also played in other theaters, such as in 1987 at The Goodman Theater of the Art Institute of Chicago in a production of Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear (La puce à l'oreille) .

Towles had his first major (and at the same time his most famous) film role in John McNaughton's first director Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer , in which Towles played a character based on the real serial killer Ottis Toole . The low-budget film, shot in 1986, was only released in 1989 and subsequently developed into a cult film over the years. Towles was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance at the 1991 Independent Spirit Awards .

This entry was followed by roles in splatter films , which were directed by renowned genre directors such as Tom Savini or Towles' Organics colleague Stuart Gordon, who had switched to the film business . He later became a regular cast in the films Rob Zombies . He was also seen in some Hollywood mainstream productions, but especially in episode roles in television series such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Seinfeld , NYPD Blue , LA Law , Emergency Room (ER) , Hinterm Mond immediately left (3rd Rock from the Sun ) , Star Trek: Voyager , Profiler , Pretender , Firefly - Der Aufbruch der Serenity , CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators and Malcolm in the middle (Malcolm in the Middle) .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Towles gives this date of birth on its "official" website; The date December 10, 1950 was often used in older biographies.
  2. ↑ Tom Towles, Actor in Rob Zombie Films, Dies at 65
  3. ↑ Information  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on organictheater.org@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.organictheater.org  
  4. ↑ Information on books.google.de
  5. ↑ Tom Towles and Michael Rooker Enter Delamorte's Dungeon of Deadly Delights on dreadcentral.com
personal data
SURNAME Towles, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2015
Place of death Pinellas County , Florida