Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith
Born	March 18, 1962 (1962-03-18) (age 47) Hartford, Connecticut
Years active	1964–2007
Spouse(s)	Mary Page Keller (1991-present); 2 children

Thomas Ian Griffith (born March 18, 1962) is an American actor who has starred in film and on television.

Biography

Personal life

Griffith was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Mary Ann (née O'Neil), who worked at a dance studio, and Thomas Joseph Griffith.^[1] He attended College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. ^[2] Griffith is married to his former Another World costar Mary Page Keller and they have two children together. He holds black belts in Kenpo Karate and Tae Kwon Do.

Career

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Griffith's first feature film was the 1989 movie The Karate Kid, Part III, in which he played Terry Silver, a toxic-waste dumper and rival martial arts expert who influences Daniel LaRusso against his friend and mentor, Mr. Miyagi.

In 1996, Griffith starred in the movie Hollow Point alongside Tia Carrere as DEA agent Max Parish and FBI agent Diane Norwood respectively, who try to find a money launderer who hired a Hitman (Donald Sutherland) to kill Diane's FBI partner in revenge for a wedding gone wrong, which resulted in a Russian mobster's son death.

Griffith has also appeared in the 1998 John Carpenter film Vampires as head vampire Jan Valek who fought against the vampire hunters lead by James Woods. In the 2002 film xXx, he starred as Agent Jim McGrath.

His first TV role was on the soap opera Another World as Catlin Ewing from 1984-1987. In 1999 he starred in the TV movie Secret of Giving with Reba McEntire; earlier in 1999 he appeared in Reba's video for the song "What Do You Say." He also starred as Rock Hudson in the 1990 TV movie Rock Hudson. He has made guest appearances on a number of television shows, including In the Heat of the Night, Wiseguy, and One Tree Hill.

In 1997, he won back to back episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy!, an accomplishment no other celebrity has matched, to this day.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
• xXx (2002)
• Black Point (2001)
• The Sea Wolf (2001)
• Beyond the Prairie The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues (2000)
• For the Cause (2000)
• Avalanche (1999)
• Secret of Giving (1999) (TV)
• Vampires (1998)
• Behind Enemy Lines (1997)
• Kull the Conqueror (1997)
• Hollow Point (1996)
• Excessive Force (1993)
• Ulterior Motives (1992)
• Rock Hudson (1990) (TV)
• The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)

References

External links

• Thomas Ian Griffith at the Internet Movie Database