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EXCLUSIVE: NBC has set another key member of the Schrute clan. Veteran Tom Bower (Die Hard 2) has been cast as Dwight’s (Rainn Wilson) great uncle Heinrich in The Office spinoff project, which will be introduced in an episode of the veteran NBC comedy’s upcoming final season. Titled The Farm, the spinoff has Dwight (Wilson) living at the Schrute family beet farm and bed & breakfast. Bower will play the Dwight siblings’ (Wilson, Majandra Delfino, Thomas Middleditch) great uncle Heinrich Manheim, who is charming, greedy, manipulative… and may have had to spend time in Argentina following World War II, thanks to his German National Socialist roots. Co-starring in the project is Matt Jones as Dwight’s cousin Zeke. Bower, repped by UTA and Principal, will next be seen in the feature Out Of The Furnace and reprising his role as Pop Pop on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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I had the great pleasure of working on a film with Tom and he’s a great guy…class act and super talented. Great casting!
At first I thought this was going to be a trainwreck, but now I’m coming around. The WW11 – funny.
This project’s still happening? Really?
He also played the police captain in “River’s Edge”.
I don’t know anything about tom bower except two things:
He’s a wonderful actor
and
He may be the only actor in a current prime time network series that is a true, anti-merger unionist who REALLY knows what he is talking about, and makes no bones about it (there goes my “maybe you’ve actually been blacklisted Matt” theory…)
Congratulations to a righteous dude. TOM BOWER!!!!!!!!!!
They don’t come any better than Tom Bower.
This worked so well for Joey from Friends…good luck Dwight.
Worked out OK for Frasier though.
Every bit of casting news around this show gets better and better.
Hope the writing lives up to the cast.
This is just ridiculous. I was halfway through this article before I realized its been at least a year since I watched network television. I got tired of being disappointed every. single. fall.
I never knew this guy’s name, but he’s always a welcome presence in films and TV. I loved his turn in the little-seen “True Believer” where he plays a murder witness who also believes the phone company killed JFK. He was hilarious, sad, and noble all at once.
Great seeing Tom in TV. I met in LA and is one of my favorite actors. I tell everyone were friends since we met .