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"
1999–2003 The West Wing Mark Richardson 2 episodes [6] [4] [7]
The Practice Judge Watson 3 episodes [4]
2000 Get Real Detective Oberg"Saved"
The Pretender Leonard"Meltdown"
Family Law Judge Harbert"Going Home"
2001 The Education of Max Bickford Garvis Avery 2 episodes
2003–2010 Cold Case Will Jeffries 156 episodes
2008–2009 Crash Captain Tucker [6]
2011 House Sykes"Twenty Vicodin" [4]
2013 Blue Bloods ADA Saul Ward"Framed"
2014 Perception William Parsons Recurring [3]

Film

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Thom Barry Biography, Celebrity Facts and Awards". TV Guide . Archived from the original on February 14, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  2. Kiesewetter, John (April 1, 2019). "Happy 50th Birthday To Country Music WUBE". WUBE-FM. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  3. 1 2 Ng, Philiana (June 6, 2014). "'Cold Case' Star Heads to TNT's 'Perception'". The Hollywood Reporter . Janice Min. ISSN   0018-3660. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2019. Thom Barry will appear in the third season of the Eric McCormack drama.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Thom Barry List of Movies and TV Shows". TV Guide . Archived from the original on June 4, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  5. Fuoco-Karasinski, Christina (October 23, 2018). "'Seinfeld' 'Soup Nazi' Thomas to appear in play". SanTan Sun News . Archived from the original on November 7, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  6. 1 2 Fearn-Banks, Kathleen; Burford-Johnson, Anne (2014). "The Dictionary". Historical Dictionary of African American Television. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 51. ISBN   978-0-8108-7917-1.
  7. McCabe, Janet (2013). "'Modern History Is Another Name for Television': Representing Historical Relevancy and Cultural Memory". The West Wing. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 85–114. ISBN   978-0-8143-3436-2.
  8. Izadi, Elahe (November 15, 2016). "Twenty years later, 'Space Jam' is the movie we never knew we needed" . The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   2269358. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  9. Sprague, Mike (June 26, 2019). "Charles Barkley Doesn't Think We Need Space Jam 2". MovieWeb. Archived from the original on June 27, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  10. Ebert, Roger (June 6, 2003). "2 Fast 2 Furious movie review (2003)". RogerEbert.com . Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  11. Baumgarten, Marjorie (January 11, 2013). "Texas Chainsaw". The Austin Chronicle . ISSN   1074-0740. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  12. "Thom Barry". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  13. "Thom Barry Filmography". Fandango . Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  14. Lenker, Maureen Lee (September 7, 2016). "'Mr. Church' Premiere: Eddie Murphy on His Dramatic Return to the Big Screen After 4 Years". The Hollywood Reporter . Janice Min. ISSN   0018-3660. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2019. 'It was just a really sweet little story,' Murphy told THR about what drew him to the Bruce Beresford-directed project. 'I don't usually get stuff that's written like this.'