Thom Barry
Born
Cleveland, Ohio, US
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]

Acting credits

Television

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

Film

Year Title Role Citation(s)
1995 The American President Guard [5]
1995 White Man's Burden Landlord [5]
1995 Congo Samahani [5]
1995 Apollo 13 Orderly [5]
1996 High School High Teacher [5]
1996 Independence Day SETI Tech Two [5]
1996 Space Jam James R. Jordan Sr. [8][9]
1997 Steel Senior Cop [5]
1997 Air Force One Ramstein S O F Watch Officer [5]
1998 Major League: Back to the Minors Pops Morgan [5]
2001 The Fast and the Furious Agent Bilkins [5]
2003 2 Fast 2 Furious Agent Bilkins [10]
2013 Texas Chainsaw 3D Sheriff Hooper [11][12]
2016 Mr. Church Frankie Twiggs[13] [14]

References

  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Thom Barry List of Movies and TV Shows". TV Guide. Archived from the original on June 4, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  6. ^ a b 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.'

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