Tom Bower, Private Eye Turned ‘Die Hard 2’ Star, Dies at 86

Tom Bower, the character actor best known for playing an oddball airport janitor who teams up with John McClane to take down a terrorist cell in Die Hard 2, died last Thursday. He was 86.

Bower died in his sleep at his Los Angeles home, his sister-in-law, Mary Miller, told The Hollywood Reporter. “He was an extraordinary human being,” his manager said in an email to USA Today.

Aside from Die Hard 2, Bower was best known for a 26-episode arc as the physician Dr. Curtis Willard on The Waltons, appearing on the historical drama from 1975 to 1978. He later said he was written off the show after asking for a pay bump.

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