Related actors:
Related directors:
More About This Page
Looking for reviews of Tom Towles movies? Cinafilm has a total of 7,532 reviews across 24 movies.
Movies starring Tom Towles have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
Dog Day Afternoon - released in 1975 - is Tom Towles's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 717 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Tom Towles is Lansky - released in 1999 - with a score of 41% based on 3 reviews.
Tom Towles (March 20, 1950 – April 2, 2015) was an American actor.
Towles was born and raised in Chicago. He became an actor after a stint in the U.S. Marines, beginning with an uncredited performance in Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He has appeared in film and television extensively since the 1980s. He is probably best known for his turn in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a character modeled after Ottis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas' reputed accomplice in several murders. He has also appeared in Night of the Living Dead, The Rock, Blood in Blood Out, House of 1000 Corpses, and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects. Recently Tom also portrayed a vicious drug trafficking Aryan gang leader in the big screen adaptation of Miami Vice (he played a similar role as Aryan prison gang leader Red Rider in Blood In Blood Out) and had a cameo in one of the faux trailers Werewolf Women of the SS in Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse. His television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, and Firefly.
Towles died on April 2, 2015, at the age of 65, in a hospital in Pinellas, Florida of complications following a stroke.
Tom Towles has acted in films with Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, Sheri Moon Zombie and Sid Haig.
Tom Towles has worked with these film directors: John McNaughton, Rob Zombie, Stuart Gordon and Quentin Tarantino.
Popular Movies Right Now