My Friend Tom

I have a very dear friend .. his name is Tom Nowicki.

Now you might wonder why on earth I would post his name on a blog .. but it's perfectly fine. :)

You see .. he's an actor. And not just some fly-by-night one either .. he's actually been in some REALLY GOOD movies .. :)

Here are a couple of my favorite professional pictures of him. :)





And one of him that I cropped from a picture he sent me (I don't know that the other people in the pic want their faces splashed onto the internet O_O ) .. taken just after his roller-hockey team .. the Wolves .. had won their tournament. He was pretty happy about this .. btw. :D



He's been at this a long while now .. with guest spots on TV shows like 'Matlock', 'Walker Texas Ranger' and 'Dexter' .. and he starred in 'RollerJam' as the rather intense 'Kenneth Loge III' .. league commissioner hell bent to clean up the game and restore it to a 'former glory' .. that seemed to exist only in his mind. lololol :D

He performs .. as often as he can .. in plays in areas close to where he lives in Florida .. such as 'Proof' a couple of years ago .. in which he played the mathematician father, 'Robert' .. and .. more recently in 'A Number' .. in which he plays the father, 'Salter'.

He's been in dozens of movies, too. Along with the usual unnamed '5 (lines) or under' characters .. such as 'man with money' .. LOL .. that earlier careers are filled with .. he's also had some roles that had a bit more substance to them.

He played 'Lonnie Tombstone' in the movie 'The Punisher' (the picture on the IMDB site is of that character) .. 'Mr Rutherford' in the Disney movie 'Flash' .. and 'Coach Ed Henry' in 'Remember the Titans'.. to mention a few. Most recently he's starred in a horror film .. 'Hallows Point' .. as a resurrected serial killer .. O_O .. and in a beautiful film called 'Descansos'. He plays 'Ken' .. and is the fella' in the trailer with the longish blond/red hair. :)

I 'met' him nearly 10 years ago now .. writing a letter to him .. partly on behalf of a friend of mine with a fan website for the old sci-fi show 'Swamp Thing' .. in which Tom had guested in several episodes .. but also to tell him how much I enjoyed his work too. He had guested in 5 episodes of the one season series 'The Cape' as a Russian astronaut 'Andrei Mikoyan'. It was a good role and he played it very well .. in my somewhat biased opinion. ;)

We have become very good friends .. and have been writing ever since. And I mean 'writing' as in actual paper correspondence .. as he is a self professed 'technophobe' .. and doesn't even own a computer. Something about a strange inversion of the medusa effect .. turning him instantly to stone .. if he so much as glances sidelong at one .. O_o

He is also a dog lover and is a good 'daddy' to Shea .. the dog of his heart and the pup of his dreams. On top of acting .. he also has a clinic set up .. using hydrotherapy to help ailing and injured doggies recover .. or at the very least improve the quality of their lives. It is called 'Hip Dog' .. and it is a wonderful thing that he and his associates are doing to help animals recover and lead happier, more pain free, lives.

What had prompted me to write this here .. is that I recently got a great letter from him .. one that is in his usual funny, intelligent style .. and .. seeing as he's my friend .. I figured I would give him a good mention in this space of mine. He's a very nice person .. a gifted actor .. and he deserves the attention. :)

I've been thinking of starting a blog just for and about him .. but for now .. until I decide .. I'll update here on what he's doing from time to time .. cuz .. he deserves it. :)