SAG-AFTRA Remembers Tom Bower

SAG-AFTRA was saddened to learn of the passing of former National Board member Tom Bower on May 30. Bower, 86, joined both SAG and AFTRA in 1973. He was a working actor with a half-century’s worth of film and TV credits, including The Waltons, The Hills Have Eyes, Crazy Heart, Pollock and Die Hard 2.

As a union leader, Bower served on the SAG National Board from 1995–2002, as well as on the Hollywood Board and dozens of committees, including the SAG TV Residual Study, Global Rule One, Communications, National Agents Relations, and National New Technologies committees, just to name a few. He was also responsible for co-creating what is today known as SAGindie, a union resource that guides independent filmmakers through the signatory process.

Professionally, Bower never slowed down, from first taking the stage as a teenager to his recent work. He brought that same passion to union leadership and to advocating for his fellow members. He will be missed.

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.