Tom Simcox

{{Infobox person

|name = Tom Simcox

|birth_name = Thomas William Simcox

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|06|17}}

|birth_place = Medford, New Jersey, U.S.

|occupation = Actor

|years_active = 1962–1991

|spouse = Kit Smythe{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/214071223/|title=Hedda Hopper: Hollywood And Vine|work=The Times|location=Shreveport, Louisiana|date=July 19, 1965|access-date=July 13, 2022|page=30|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}

}}

Thomas William Simcox (born June 17, 1937){{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tom_simcox|title=Tom Simcox|work=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=July 13, 2022}} is an American film and television actor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105083593/the-psychic-stars/|title=The Psychic Stars|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|location=Santa Cruz, California|date=March 7, 1965|access-date=July 13, 2022|page=17|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448566010/|title=(untitled brief)|work=Republican and Herald|location=Pottsville, Pennsylvania|date=March 17, 1966|access-date=July 13, 2022|page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}

Early life

Simcox was born in Medford, New Jersey.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/330618070/|title=Tom Simcox Is Actor On His Way Up|first=Hedda|last=Hopper|work=The Tampa Tribune|location=Tampa, Florida|date=August 30, 1963|access-date=July 13, 2022|page=31|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105578081/actor-tom-simcox-of-medford/|title=Long Path Led Back To Acting in Series|work=Oakland Tribune|first=Dick|last=Kleiner|location=Oakland, California|date=February 13, 1977|access-date=July 14, 2022|page=135|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

Career

Simcox began his career in 1962, first appearing in the police procedural television series Naked City. He then made an appearance on the medical drama television series Ben Casey. He guest-starred in television programs including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O, Matt Houston, Ironside, The Virginian, Vega$, Charlie's Angels, Trapper John, M.D., Perry Mason, Columbo and Wagon Train. In 1964, he made his film debut for which Simcox first appeared in the television film The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre. He then played the role of Lt. Johnson in the 1965 film Shenandoah.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE_CgD4pk2wC|title=A Wonderful Life: The Films and Career of James Stewart|page=222|first=Tony|last=Thomas|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|date=1997|isbn=9780806519531|via=Google Books}}

Simcox starred in the 1966 film Incident at Phantom Hill,{{Citation|title=The ... Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures|page=296|date=1968|publisher=John W. Alicoate}} which also starred Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane and Dan Duryea. He also made an appearance in the 1976 film Hollywood Man, which starred William Smith, Ray Girardin, Jude Farese and Jennifer Billingsley.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69bcd134|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182314/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69bcd134|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2021|title=Hollywood Man (1976)|work=British Film Institute|access-date=July 13, 2022}} Simcox played the role of the sheriff. In 1977, he starred in the action and adventure television series Code R.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 Through 2010, 2d Ed.|first=Vincent|last=Terrace|page=198|publisher=McFarland|date=January 10, 2014|isbn=9780786486410|via=Google Books}} His final credit was from Jack Webb's Dragnet remake which was The New Dragnet in 1991.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1965

|Shenandoah

|Lt. Johnson

1966

|Incident at Phantom Hill

|Adam Long

1972

|Piranha

|Art Greene

1976

|Hollywood Man

|The Sheriff

1990

|Grim Prairie Tales

|Horn

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1962

|Naked City

|Fred

|Episode: "A Case Study of Two Savages"

1962

|Ben Casey

|Jerry Lavin

|Episode: "When You See an Evil Man"

1962

|Perry Mason

|Waiter

|Episode: "The Case of the Playboy Pugilist"

1962

|Alcoa Premiere

|Finney

|Episode: "The Masked Marine"

1963

|The Eleventh Hour

|Joe Foster

|Episode: "Hang by One Hand"

1963

|Stoney Burke

|Jeff Hadley

|Episode: "Tigress by the Tail"

1963

|The Lieutenant

|Capt. Brett Parker

|Episode: "To Take Up Serpents"

1963

|Death Valley Days

|Billy

|Episode: "The Holy Terror"

1963

|Channing

|Art Townsend

|Episode: "Beyond His Reach"

1963

|The Great Adventure

|Foord

|Episode: "The Man Who Stole New York City"

1963–1974

|Gunsmoke

|Various roles

|8 episodes

1964

|The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre

|Henry Mandore

|Television film

1964, 1965

|Wagon Train

|Adam Pierce / Tim Riggs

| rowspan="2" |2 episodes

1964, 1965

|Alfred Hitchcock Presents

|Jerry Walsh / John Sprague

1964–1969

|The Virginian

|Various roles

|3 episodes

1965

|Broadside

|Bill Larsen

|Episode: "The Wolfman Cometh"

1965

|Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

|Lieutenant Walter Matthew

|Episode: "The Filers"

1965

|Bonanza

|Andy Watson

|Episode: "The Other Son"

1965

|Diamond Jim: Skulduggery in Samantha

|Walters

|Television film

1966

|Laredo

|Shamus McCloud

|Episode: "Sound of Terror"

1966

|Run for Your Life

|Johnny Cadell

|Episode: "The Grotenberg Mask"

1966

|The Doomsday Flight

|Chipps

| rowspan="2" |Television film

1966

|The Iron Men

|Noah Wylie

1966, 1967

|Combat!

|Dolan / Marsini

| rowspan="2" |2 episodes

1967

|The Green Hornet

|Dan Scully

1969

|Premiere

|Braddock

|Episode: "Braddock"

1968

|Istanbul Express

|Leland McCord

|Television film

1968

|Ironside

|George Huff / Brian Turner

|2 episodes

1970

|Matt Lincoln

|David Cunningham

|Episode: "Jilly"

1970

|The Aquarians

|Jerry Hollis

|Television film

1971

|Bearcats!

|Stengler

|Episode: "Ground Loop at Spanish Wells"

1971

|Monty Nash

|Ed Stanley

|Episode: "Tension in a Troubled Town"

1973

|Hawaii Five-O

|Anthony Porter

|Episode: "The Sunday Torch"

1973

|Emergency!

|Brad

|Episode: "Promotion"

1974

|Columbo

|William Haynes

|Episode: "By Dawn's Early Light"

1976

|Gibbsville

|Smith

|Episode: "Afternoon Waltz"

1976, 1978

|Police Story

|Sgt. Duvall / Officer Stover

|2 episodes

1977

|The Ghost of Cypress Swamp

|Pa Bascombe

|Television film

1977

|Code R

|Walt Robinson

|13 episodes

1977

|Charlie's Angels

|Lon Molton

|Episode: "Angel in Love"

1977–1980

|The Magical World of Disney

|Pa Bascombe

|3 episodes

1978

|Baretta

|Anderson

|Episode: "The Appointment"

1978

|How the West Was Won

|Marshal Logan

|2 episodes

1979

|David Cassidy: Man Undercover

|Dixon

|Episode: "Teammates"

1980

|Vegas

|Mr. Gleaver

|Episode: "Magic Sister Slayings"

1983

|Matt Houston

|Gershwin

|Episode: "Needle in a Haystack"

1983

|Whiz Kids

|Loring

|Episode: "Candidate for Murder"

1983–1986

|Simon & Simon

|Various roles

|3 episodes

1985

|Trapper John, M.D.

|Mr. Michaelson

|Episode: "A False Start"

1985

|Street Hawk

|Keller

|Episode: "The Arabian"

1986

|Knight Rider

|Deputy Clark

|Episode: "Hills of Fire"

1986

|Acceptable Risks

|Joe Reed

|Television film

1986

|Airwolf

|Weldon Rossiter

|Episode: "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"

1991

|Dragnet

|Mr. Cerone

|Episode: "Who Killed My Boat?"

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0799410}}
{{TCMDb name|177759%7C147905}}
[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tom_simcox/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]

Category:1937 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Medford, New Jersey

Category:Male actors from New Jersey

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:Actors from Burlington County, New Jersey