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Tom Wright

Tom Wright

Actor·b. 1952·Englewood, New Jersey, USA

10 horror credits

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".

Actor10 films

Within

Within

Detective Pascal

2016
The Secrets of Emily Blair

The Secrets of Emily Blair

Detective Gorodetsky

2016
The Diabolical

The Diabolical

Curtis (as Thomas Wright)

2015
Rift

Rift

Lietenant Neal

2011
The Cursed

The Cursed

Willie Gar

2010
Hangman's Curse

Hangman's Curse

Dan Carillo

2003
Tales from the Hood

Tales from the Hood

Martin Moorehouse (segment "Rogue Cop Revelation")

1995 3.8
Amityville: A New Generation

Amityville: A New Generation

Morgue Attendant

1993
Creepshow 2

Creepshow 2

The Hitchhiker

1987 3.0
Streetwalkin'

Streetwalkin'

Henchman #1

1985