Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Francis Duffy (born November 9, 1955) is a versatile American character actor, writer, musician, and athlete. He is best known for playing hippie Paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and as Sam Moxon, the football loving dad in Varsity Blues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas F. Duffy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Odious
2017
as Charlie
When recovering alcoholic Joe McNeal's nephew is abducted, his personal investigation leads him to powerhouse undercover African American Detective Ma...
Strange Men
2015
as Tim
Abby, a penniless young drifter, decides to return home. But her plans change when a strange man begins following her.
The Candidate
2011
as Whitman Hayes
An underhanded company man is offered assistance by a secret organization that immerses him in forces beyond his control.
Super 8
2011
as Rooney
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train dera...
Rubber
2010
as Xavier
A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The a...
Spy Games: A Private Visit
2008
Ex KGB agent travels to New York to help his old friend out of trouble.
World Trade Center
2006
as NYC Command Centre Operator
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The Standard
2006
as Dylan's Father
Dylan is a young man who two weeks before graduating from high-school starts to second guess his plans to go to Boston with his girlfriend, Gina. He s...
Gone But Not Forgotten
2005
as Chief O'Malley
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has...
The Drone Virus
2004
as Russell Wheeler
The unthinkable strikes when the advanced MRI scanner within a hospital forces Dr. Colleen O'Brian to choose between her superiors and a desperate fat...
Scorcher
2002
as Anderson
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Varsity Blues
1999
as Sam Moxon
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday ...
Let the Devil Wear Black
1999
as Bartender
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
Poodle Springs
1998
as Fat Cop
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Mercury Rising
1998
as Audey (uncredited)
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
as Dr. Robert Burke
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing tha...
Independence Day
1996
as Lieutenant
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it ...
If Looks Could Kill
1996
as Officer Bryant (uncredited)
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
The River Wild
1994
as Ranger
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th...
Wagons East!
1994
as Clayton Ferguson
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide t...
Wolf
1994
as Tom
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...
Eye of the Stranger
1993
as Ballack
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The...
To Protect and Serve
1992
as Stewart
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
The Waterdance
1992
as Dr. Harrison
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist bik...
Two-Fisted Tales
1992
as Scorby (segment "Showdown")
The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," a...
Guilty As Charged
1991
as Evans
A female parole officer discovers a secret death row prison under a meat plant, that's being run by the plant's unhinged vigilante owner and his rever...
Out for Justice
1991
as O'Kelly
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake......
State of Grace
1990
as Frankie's Man #6
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Iri...
The Abyss
1989
as Construction Worker
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself o...
Danger Zone II: Reaper's Revenge
1989
as Dumpster
When the leader of a biker gang is released early from prison, he vows revenge on the cop who put him there and kidnaps his girlfriend.
Casebusters
1986
Jamie and Allie are amateur sleuths whose grandfather runs a small security business. One afternoon, while digging around on their own, they accidenta...
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
as Second Suspect
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counter...
Command 5
1985
as Lew
A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.
Getting Physical
1984
as Killer
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a m...
Baby Sister
1983
as Michael Fancher
Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in ...
Death Wish II
1982
as Nirvana
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Miracle on Ice
1981
as Dave Christian
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by contr...