Tom Towles

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 US 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 Devils 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 Rodriguezs Grindhouse His television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue LA 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Towles licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia