Scott Sowers

Scott Nicolai Sowers (November 5, 1963 April 1, 2018) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Detective Parker in the late 1990s ABC series ''Cracker'' and for his role as Stanley Kowalski on stage in ''A Streetcar Named Desire''. He established the Signature Theatre Company in 1991, and the following year he won the Drama-Logue Award for Performance for his role as the colonel in ''A Few Good Men'' at the Shubert Theatre.

In films, he has played some notable minor roles, such as a mercenary in '' Under Siege 2: Dark Territory'' (1995), a prison guard in '' Dead Man Walking'' (1995), and a condemned man in ''True Grit'' (2010). Aside from numerous dramatic readings for audiobooks, Sowers provided his voice for videogames such as '' Batman: Dark Tomorrow'' (2003), ''Manhunt 2'' (2007) and '' Homefront'' (2011).

Early life

Sowers was born on November 5, 1963, in Arlington County, Virginia. There, he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1982 (along with friend Sandra Bullock). Sowers went on to study at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before moving to New York City.

Background and stage work

Sowers began his career as a stage actor. In 1989 ''New York Magazine'' praised his "excellent" performance as Starns in the play ''Heathen Valley''. In 1991 he established the Signature Theater Company with James Houghton. In 1992 the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' noted Sowers' "formidable colonel" in a stage production of ''A Few Good Men'' at the Shubert Theatre. The production later went on a national tour, which won him the Drama-Logue Award for Performance.

In 1996, Sowers played Will Masters on stage in a Broadway production of ''Bus Stop''. In 2004 he played Stanley Kowalski in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' at Studio 54 in New York City; the following year, John C. Reilly played the part and Sowers played the more minor part of Steve. In 2007 he appeared on Broadway in '' Inherit the Wind''.

With the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Sowers appeared in productions of ''Matthew and the Pastor’s Wife'', ''Lenin’s Embalmers'', ''Princes of Waco'', ''Lucy'' and ''Hand to God''. He has also appeared on stage in the Wilma Theater of Philadelphia, the Long Wharf Theater of New Haven, Connecticut in 2003, the Actor's Theater of Louisville, the Baltimore Center Stage, and the Oslo Festival in Norway. In September 2012 he appeared at the Valborg Theatre of Appalachian State University in ''Romulus Linney ... Back Home in the Mountains: A Tribute to Romulus Linney''.

Film and television roles

Sowers starred in the 1995 Steven Seagal film '' Under Siege 2: Dark Territory'' as one of the mercenaries, and has played detectives and police officers in various films and television series, including ''Cracker'', where he played Detective Parker from 1997 to 1999, and a prison guard in the 1995 film '' Dead Man Walking''. He appeared in ''A Season for Miracles'' (1999), and several episodes of ''Law & Order'' and its spinoffs, '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' and '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent''. He also made an appearance in ''Erin Brockovich'' in 2000.

In 2009 he portrayed Uncle Drake in the TV series ''Get Hit''. This was followed by a role as Joseph Earl Dinler in the ''Boardwalk Empire'' episode "Anastasia" in 2010. In 2010 he also played an unrepentant condemned man in the acclaimed Coen Brothers film ''True Grit'' opposite Jeff Bridges. In 2013 he had a minor role as Russo in an episode of the CBS series '' Blue Bloods''.

Other work

Sowers has done dramatic readings for audiobooks, notably many of Hunter S. Thompson's works, and provided voice characterization for the short documentary film ''An American Synagogue''. ''California Bookwatch'' praised Sowers' "dramatic prowess which translates well to audio as he tells of a police chief forced into identifying a dead woman". In 2003 he provided the voice of Victor Zsasz for the video game '' Batman: Dark Tomorrow'', and in 2011 he provided the voice of Arnie in the videogame '' Homefront''.

Death

On April 1, 2018, Sowers died of a heart attack at the age of 54, at a friend's home in New York City.

Filmography

References

External links

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Scott Sowers audiobook titles at Amazon.com

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sowers, Scott
American male stage actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
1963 births
2018 deaths
American male voice actors
American male video game actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from Virginia
Washington-Liberty High School alumni