Personal Info
Birth date
1927-04-17 (98 Years)
Day of death
1989-10-27
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
San Diego, California, USA
Also known as
Thomas Dowling
Wilhelm Kervin
Sam Shackman
Thomas Sweetwood
Thomas Wood
Bill Kerwin
Roony Kerwin
Tommy Sweetwood
William D. Kerwin
Al Dempsey
William Kerwin
Biography
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Filmography
Miami Vice
7.454
Overview:
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.Absence of Malice
6.641
Overview:
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.The Incredibly Strange Film Show
10
Overview:
A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.Porky's II: The Next Day
5.722
Overview:
When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.Doin' Time
4.5
Overview:
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.The Heavenly Kid
6.556
Overview:
After dying in a car crash, Bobby Fantana is forced to pay for his misdeeds by becoming someone's guardian angel. He reluctantly agrees to watch over awkward high schooler Lenny Barnes, teaching him how to be cool and confident. As Bobby teaches Lenny, the two form a close bond.Scum of the Earth!
5.357
Overview:
A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.Act of Betrayal
NYR
Overview:
An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.Winchester '73
6.2
Overview:
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.The Ballad of Billie Blue
NYR
Overview:
An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.Blood Feast
4.8
Overview:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.The Eternal Sea
6.4
Overview:
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.P.I. Private Investigations
4.8
Overview:
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.Two Thousand Maniacs!
5.488
Overview:
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.The Moonlighter
5.7
Overview:
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela (Barbara Stanwyck), who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.The Star Maker
4
Overview:
Danny Youngblood is a famed Hollywood director with a reputation for modeling sexy starlets into superstar actresses, and then turning his discoveries into his wives, one after another. However, Danny meets his match when he zeroes in on his latest starlet/conquest, Margot Murray, who decides to turn the tables on him.Tomcats
3.8
Overview:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.Pagan Island
4.2
Overview:
An American sailor is shipwrecked on a South Seas island populated only by women. Trouble follows when he falls in love with a native girl who has been chosen as a sacrifice to the tribe's pagan god.The Evictors
6.5
Overview:
A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.Tread Softly Stranger
7.615
Overview:
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.All My Darling Daughters
6
Overview:
A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.Impulse
3.9
Overview:
A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.Class of '63
2
Overview:
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.The Gruesome Twosome
4.8
Overview:
An elderly woman has her son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop. A persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.The Naked Zoo
4.4
Overview:
Love and crime in Miami's Cocoanut Grove artist's colony. Swinging young writer Stephen Oliver has a falling-out with benefactress Rita Hayworth in the wake of a wild LSD party. Rita foolishly tries blackmail after Oliver's reconciliation attempt leaves her crippled millionaire husband dead.The Hooked Generation
4.1
Overview:
A trio of addicts make a move into drug smuggling with an ill-fated plan to use the Cuban Navy as their supplier that leads to kidnapping and murder.Bell, Bare and Beautiful
3.6
Overview:
A young millionaire is obsessed by a woman he keeps dreaming about but doesn't know. After an investigation, he discovers that she is a large-breasted stripper who spends a lot of time in a nudist camp. He decides to follow her there.Acting
1989Bomber Harris as Fred Walsh
1988Act of Betrayal (1 Episode) as Doctor Denny
1988The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1 Episode) as Self
1987Dreams Lost, Dreams Found as Edward
1987P.I. Private Investigations as Anthony
1985Sno-Line as Max McClain
1985The Heavenly Kid as Suburbanite
1984Miami Vice (1 Episode) as Paul
1983Porky's II: The Next Day as Boa Man (as Rooney Kerwin)
1981Absence of Malice as Walker
1981The Star Maker as Doctor Parker (uncredited)
1980The Aliens Are Coming as Professor Reeve (uncredited)
1980Make Me an Offer as Claude Benson
1979The Evictors as Harry Richardson
1978Barracuda as Sheriff Ben Williams
1978Convention Girls as Unknown
1978Doctors' Private Lives as Dr. George Bana
1977Whiskey Mountain as Homer
1977Tomcats as Detective Tom Garrett
1977The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver as Old Man
1976No Way Back as Unknown
1975God's Bloody Acre as Monroe (as Thomas Wood)
1975The Log of the Black Pearl as Alfred
1974Impulse as Soldier
1974Ride in a Pink Car as Earl
1973The Godmothers as Speedboat Owner
1973Class of '63 as Rex
1973House of Terror as Russell Donovan (uncredited)
1972All My Darling Daughters as Lester (uncredited)
1972Dear Dead Delilah as Burke (uncredited)
1971Revenge Is My Destiny as Policeman
1971Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things as Detective (as Thomas Wood)
1970Sweet Bird of Aquarius as Steve Bradford
1970Penny Wise as Unknown
1969Childish Things as Mr. Sullivan
1969Campus Heat as Unknown
1968The Hooked Generation as FBI Man #1
1968Girls Come Too! as Nudist (uncredited)
1968A Piece of Her Action as Unknown
1968Suburban Roulette as Marty Conley (as Thomas Wood)
1968The Winter's Tale as Jeff
1968My Third Wife, George as Ralph Higbee
1967Playgirl Killer as Bill
1967A Taste of Blood as Dr. Hank Tyson (as Thomas Wood)
1967Winchester '73 as Roland Harcourt
1966Jimmy, the Boy Wonder as Man Mowing Lawn (uncredited)
1964Sex and the College Girl as Tentor
1964Two Thousand Maniacs! as Tom White
1963Scum of the Earth! as Harmon Johnson
1963Bell, Bare and Beautiful as Rick Bradshaw
1963Goldilocks and the Three Bares as Tommy Sweetwood
1963Blood Feast as Detective Pete Thornton
1963Boin-n-g as Al Harding
1962The Adventures of Lucky Pierre as The Plumber
1962Five Finger Exercise as Mark
1962Babes in the Woods as Unknown
1961Pagan Island as Sea Captain
1961The Fiercest Heart as Bart
1961The Long Rope as Steve Matthews
1961Living Venus as Jack Norwall
1959Carving Magic as Joe
1958Tread Softly Stranger as Michael
1958Thundering Jets as Gary
1955The Eternal Sea as Cole
1954Dragon's Gold as Gene
1953The Moonlighter as Tony
1952Everything I Have Is Yours as Larry
Sound
1985Doin' Time ... Sound
Writing
1974The Single Girls ... Writer
1972The Ballad of Billie Blue ... Writer
1970Sweet Bird of Aquarius ... Screenplay
1967Playgirl Killer ... Story
1966Sting of Death ... Screenplay
1965Adam Lost His Apple ... Screenplay
1963Six She's and a He ... Writer
Production
1970Sweet Bird of Aquarius ... Producer, Production Manager
1968Suburban Roulette ... Production Manager
1968My Third Wife, George ... Producer
1967The Gruesome Twosome ... Production Manager
1967A Taste of Blood ... Production Manager
Directing
1970Sweet Bird of Aquarius ... Assistant Director