Thomas Callaway is an American retired actor, who last performed on screen in 1995. He was also credited as Tom Callaway. He has since become a successful interior designer in the

Greater Los Angeles Area Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million in 2021, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino Coun ...

Education

He graduated from

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducation ...

, Appleton, Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in fine art and architecture. As an undergraduate he was active in campus theatrical productions.

Career

While still working as an actor, he opened a residential and interior design business in 1989 in California, Thomas Callaway and Associates. He created a furniture line in 1990.

Selected filmography

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Falcon Crest ''Falcon Crest'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the California ...

'' as Dr. Otto Foster * '' V: The Series'' as Klaus * '' Hart to Hart'' (episode: "Death Set") as David Craddock * ''

Murder, She Wrote ''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...

'' (episode: "Murder by Twos") as Sam Bryce * '' Picket Fences'' (episode: "The Autumn of Rome") as Paulie Thigpen * ''

Murphy Brown ''Murphy Brown'' is an American television sitcom created by Diane English that premiered on November 14, 1988, on CBS. The series stars Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for ''FYI'', a ...

'' (episode: "Murphy Buys the Farm") as Mr. Abernathy * ''

L.A. Law ''L.A. Law'' is an American legal drama television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it centers on the partners, associates and staff of a Los ...

'' (episode: "The Gods Must Be Lawyers") as Owen Baldwin * '' Who's the Boss?'' (episode: "Your Grandmother's a Bimbo") as Jake Ashby * ''

Cheers ''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association w ...

'' (episode: "Dark Imaginings") as Jack Turner * ''

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, ''The Wonderful World of Disney'', was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 to the present. The pr ...

'' (episode: "The Absent-Minded Professor") as Prof. Donald * '' Two Idiots in Hollywood'' as T. Barry Armstrong * '' Young Guns'' as Texas Joe Grant * '' Punky Brewster'' (episode: "No No, We Won't Go") as Benjamin J. Kramer * '' The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory'' (TV Movie) as Col. James W. Fannin * '' Cowboy Joe'' (TV Movie) as "Cowboy Joe Cutler" * ''

Designing Women ''Designing Women'' is an American television sitcom created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason that aired on CBS from September 29, 1986, to May 24, 1993, producing seven seasons and 163 episodes. It was a joint production of Bloodworth/Thomason M ...

'' (episode: "New Year's Daze") as Shadow * '' Washingtoon'' as Bob Forehead * ''

WKRP in Cincinnati ''WKRP in Cincinnati'' is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio broadcasting, radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson (director), Hugh Wilson ...

'', ("Jennifer Falls in Love". Season 2, Episode 27, October 29, 1979) as Steel Hawthorne * ''

M*A*S*H ''M*A*S*H'' (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker. The ...

'' (episode: "Run for the Money") as Captain Sweeney * ''

Laverne & Shirley ''Laverne & Shirley'' (originally ''Laverne DeFazio & Shirley Feeney'') is an American sitcom television series that played for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. A spin-off of ''Happy Days'', ''Laverne & Shirley'' star ...

'' (episode: "Watch the Fur Fly" January 19, 1982) as Harold * '' The Jeffersons'' (episodes "Laundry Is a Tough Town" parts 1 & 2) as Steve Winslow.

References

External links

Thomas Callaway Interior Design official website
accessed November 24, 2014.
Profile
hollywoodreporter.com; accessed November 24, 2014. * Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Businesspeople from California Actors from Greater Los Angeles American male film actors American male television actors American interior designers 20th-century American male actors {{US-screen-actor-stub