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]

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

Acting credits

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Television

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Year Title Role Episode(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

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Year Title Role Citation(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]

References

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  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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "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. ^ 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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