Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith born March 18 1962 is an American actor and martial artist He is best known for portraying Terry Silver in the 1989 film The Karate Kid Part III a role he reprised in the 4th season of the Netflix series Cobra Kai Griffith became obsessed with Tae Kwon Do while in high school and earned a black belt when he was 18 His knowledge of Tae Kwon Do helped him land his first feature film 1989s The Karate Kid Part III in which he played Terry Silver In 1996 Griffith starred in the film Hollow Point alongside Tia Carrere as DEA agent Max Parish and FBI agent Diane Norwood respectively Griffith has also collaborated with director John Carpenter He played head vampire Jan Valek in the 1998 film Vampires and cocreated the comic book series Asylum together with Carpenter and producer Sandy King Griffith appeared in the 2002 film XXX in which he portrayed Agent Jim McGrath His first TV role was on the soap opera Another World as Catlin Ewing whom he played from 1984 to 1987 In 1999 he starred in the TV movie Secret of Giving with Reba McEntire earlier in 1999 he had appeared in Rebas video for the song What Do You Say He also starred as Rock Hudson in a 1990 TV movie Rock Hudson He has made guest appearances on a number of television shows including In the Heat of the Night Wiseguy and One Tree Hill From 2013 to 2017 Griffith periodically wrote and worked as a story editor for the NBC television series Grimm and became a coproducer in 2015 In 2021 Griffith reprised the role of Terry Silver from The Karate Kid Part III in Season 4 of Cobra Kai