Thomas F. Duffy
| Thomas F. Duffy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 9, 1955 Newark, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Actor |
Thomas Francis Duffy (born November 9, 1955) is an American character actor, writer, musician, and athlete. He has appeared as the sadistic rapist Charles Wilson in Death Wish II, the hippie Paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and as Sam Moxon, the football loving dad in Varsity Blues.
Thomas was born in Newark, New Jersey and was raised in Woodbridge, New Jersey. While attending Woodbridge High School, he played football, ice hockey, tennis and track and was active in drama and vocal music. He was originally a pre-law student at Ohio University, where he also played football and ice hockey. Duffy auditioned for an opera, was cast, and finally graduated with a BFA in acting. He was a member of Ohio's 1979 MCHL championship hockey team. He also was selected for the 1979 summer company of the Monomoy Theater, in Chatham, MA on Cape Cod.
Thomas arrived in Hollywood in 1980, and was cast in an episode of CHiPs, which he never filmed, because next day he was set to co-star as Dave Christian, a member on the 1980 gold medal Olympic hockey team in Miracle on Ice, a mini-series. While at Ohio, the head of the theater department, Robert Winters, had sat Duffy down and told him he couldn't be a hockey player and an actor. They both had a good laugh after MOI aired. Duffy made his feature film debut as Nirvana, Charles Bronson's chief nemesis in Death Wish II. He went on to appear in such films as To Live and Die in L.A., The Abyss, Crossroads and State of Grace and guest starred on Night Court, The Fall Guy, The Twilight Zone, MacGyver, and recurred on A Year in the Life on television.
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