An American actor and acting instructor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Waites runs an acting studio in New York City which is named for him. He has been a member of the Actor's Studio since 1984. Since the 1970s, Waites has appeared in over 30 television and film productions. Some of his credits as a television actor include NYPD Blue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and The Jury. In film, he appeared in Unwed Father, State of Grace, ...And Justice for All, Gangland, An American Affair, The Warriors, and the John Carpenter film The Thing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas G. Waites, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Robot Dracula — Doors
• 2025Brooklyn's Gone To Hell — Richard Crown
• 2023Target — Director, Writer
• 20216:45 — Larry
• 2019The Savant — Chief Bocchino
• FBI — Detective Dryden
• Marvel's The Punisher — Arthur Walsh
• 2012Broadway's Finest
• Homeland — Clayton
• 2011The Grand Theft — Randy Lemar
• 2011The Great Fight — Chief Bocchino
• 2011The Life Zone — Roger Fields
• 2010An Affirmative Act — Samuel 'Dixie' Backus
• New Amsterdam — James Lucas
• 2006The Exonerated — Deputy
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Lance Brody, Mo Turman
• 2001Nailed — Carpet Guy
• 2000American Virgin — Grip
• 1999Rites of Passage — John Willio
• 1997A Thousand Men and a Baby — Supply Sergeant
• 1997An American Affair — Mulroney
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Cop
• 1996Timelock — Warden Andrews
• 1995Money Train — Barricade Captain
• Sliders — Randy, Airplane Mechanic
• 1991McBain — Gill
• 1990Kojak: Flowers For Matty — Tink
• Law & Order — Burton Fenster, Bill Spence, Captain Lewis Webber, David Drucker
• 1990State of Grace — Frankie's Man #1
• 1988Shakedown — Officer Kelly
• 1988The Verne Miller Story — Al Capone
• 1987Light of Day — Smittie
• Crime Story — Prosecutor
• 1986The Clan of the Cave Bear — Broud
• The Equalizer — Jim Kaufman, Shep Morrow
• Miami Vice — D.E.A. Agent Thompson
• 1983The Face of Rage — Howard
• 1982The Thing — Windows
• 1979...And Justice for All — Jeff McCullaugh
• 1979The Other Side of Victory — Joel Purvis
• 1979The Warriors — Fox (uncredited)
• 1978On the Yard — Chilly
• The Block

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2026The Thing Expanded — Self
• 2016The Men of Outpost 31 — Self
• 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self