Thom Barry

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Thom Barry
Born
Occupations
Years active1995–2016
Known forPortraying Will Jeffries
  on the TV series Cold Case

Thom Barry is an American former actor who was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In the 1980s, he was a disc jockey [1] for WUBE-FM in Cincinnati. [2] He appeared in television advertisements for The Home Depot, Sears, and United Parcel Service, and did voice acting for the TV series The Incredible Hulk and The Wild Thornberrys . [1] In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter described the actor as best known for playing Detective Will Jeffries on the TV series Cold Case [3] from 2003 to 2010. [4]

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Acting credits

Television

YearTitleRoleEpisode(s)Citation(s)
1995 Seinfeld Building superintendent "The Soup Nazi" [5]
1996 Living Single Mark"Doctor in the House" [4]
1998 Profiler Governor of Ohio "Shoot to Kill" [4]
1999–2003 The West Wing Mark Richardson 2 episodes [6] [4] [7]
1999–2003 The Practice Judge Watson 3 episodes [4]
2000 Get Real Detective Oberg"Saved" [4]
2000 The Pretender Leonard"Meltdown" [4]
2000 Family Law Judge Harbert"Going Home" [4]
2001 The Education of Max Bickford Garvis Avery 2 episodes [4]
2003–2010 Cold Case Will Jeffries 156 episodes [4]
2008–2009 Crash Captain Tucker [6]
2011 House Sykes"Twenty Vicodin" [4]
2013 Blue Bloods ADA Saul Ward"Framed" [4]
2014 Perception William Parsons Recurring [3]

Film

YearTitleRoleCitation(s)
1995 The American President Guard [4]
1995 White Man's Burden Landlord [4]
1995 Congo Samahani [4]
1995 Apollo 13 Orderly [4]
1996 High School High Teacher [4]
1996 Independence Day SETI Tech Two [4]
1996 Space Jam James R. Jordan Sr. [8] [9]
1997 Steel Senior Cop [4]
1997 Air Force One Ramstein S O F Watch Officer [4]
1998 Major League: Back to the Minors Pops Morgan [4]
2001 The Fast and the Furious Agent Bilkins [4]
2003 2 Fast 2 Furious Agent Bilkins [10]
2013 Texas Chainsaw 3D Sheriff Hooper [11] [12]
2016 Mr. Church Frankie Twiggs [13] [14]

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