Thomas F. Duffy

Thomas F. Duffy
  

Thomas Francis Duffy (born November 9, 1955) is an American actor. He has appeared as the sadistic rapist Charles Wilson in Death Wish II, the paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and as the football-loving dad in Varsity Blues.

Early life
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, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.

1980s
Thomas arrived in Hollywood in 1980, and was cast in an episode of CHiPs, which he never filmed, because the next day he was set to co-star as Dave Christian, a member of the 1980 gold medal Olympic hockey team in Miracle on Ice, a mini-series. 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...More about Thomas F. Duffy...


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