John Towey (born 13 February 1940; age 84) is an actor who played Vedek Ossan in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Resurrection".
Towey acted in Christmas Evil (1980) with Mark Margolis. This was followed by the 1981 telefilm simply titled Bill with John Eric Bentley. In 1988, Towey appeared in the family film The Invisible Kid opposite Wallace Langham and Jay Underwood, also that year was Another Woman with Harris Yulin. In 1993, Towey was cast in Fearless with Steven Culp, Q actor John de Lancie, Stephanie Erb and Eric Menyuk. Towey was seen in the telefilm From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil T. Frankweiler (1995) with Ian Abercrombie, Miriam Flynn and Warren Munson. Towey performed in Alien Nation: Millennium (1996, starring Ron Fassler, Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint and Michele Scarabelli, with Keene Curtis, Susan Diol, Steven Flynn and Herta Ware). Towey's last film work was the TV movie Then Came Jones (2003) with Spencer Garrett.
Deep Space Nine was not Towey's first work with Avery Brooks, as Towey had guested on Brooks' Spencer: For Hire also starring Carolyn McCormick. In 1990 he appeared in Murphy Brown with John Hostetter. That year, Towey was seen on Tales from the Crypt starring John Kassir, with Earl Boen and Natalia Nogulich. Towey worked on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air starring James Avery in "Clubba Hubba". In 1991, Towey was on Dream On starring Chris Demetral and Wendie Malick, with Paul Dooley and Michael McKean and Ray Walston, as well as Empty Nest with Christopher McDonald. In 1996, Towey appeared on Ray Walston's Picket Fences also starring Kelly Connell and Justin Shenkarow with Caroline Lagerfelt and Henry Woronicz. Drama continued with Party of Five with Bruce French. 1997 began with Towey reuniting with Carolyn McCormick on her series Cracker:Mind Over Murder with Angela Paton. Following Deep Space Nine , Towey worked on Martial Law (1998, starring Tom Wright). In 1999 Towey appeared on The X-Files with Kenneth Tigar. In 2000 he appeared on Crossing Jordan starring Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell, with K Callan and Mark Kiely, followed up by a role on American Dreams starring Virginia Madsen in "High Hopes".
Towey has had some scenes deleted on several series on which he was due to guest star. This included Towey about to play Joe Costello on Murder One starring Daniel Benzali, Barbara Bosson, John Fleck, Gregory Itzin and Kevin Tighe (1995, with Marnie McPhail, Leland Orser, Jack Shearer and Ned Vaughn), and The Practice starring Bruce Davison (2000) with Zach Grenier.
Towey played a recurring role as a reporter on L.A. Law starring Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake and Diana Muldaur. He appeared in episodes with John de Lancie, Francis Guinan, Charles Napier, Michael Cumpsty, Angelina Fiordellisi and Joseph Ruskin, Jerry Hardin, Daniel Davis, Dakin Matthews and Ron Canada.
External links[]
- John Towey at the Internet Movie Database
- John Towey at Wikipedia