Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith (born March 18, 1962) is an American actor and martial artist. He is best known for portraying Terry Silver in the 1989 film The Karate Kid Part III, a role he reprised in the 4th season of the Netflix series Cobra Kai. Griffith became obsessed with Tae Kwon Do while in high school and earned a black belt when he was 18. His knowledge of Tae Kwon Do helped him land his first feature film: 1989's The Karate Kid Part III, in which he played Terry Silver. In 1996, Griffith starred in the film Hollow Point alongside Tia Carrere, as DEA agent Max Parish and FBI agent Diane Norwood respectively. Griffith has also collaborated with director John Carpenter. He played head vampire Jan Valek in the 1998 film Vampires and co-created the comic book series Asylum, together with Carpenter and producer Sandy King. Griffith appeared in the 2002 film XXX, in which he portrayed Agent Jim McGrath. His first TV role was on the soap opera Another World, as Catlin Ewing, whom he played from 1984 to 1987. In 1999, he starred in the TV movie Secret of Giving with Reba McEntire; earlier in 1999, he had appeared in Reba's video for the song "What Do You Say". He also starred as Rock Hudson in a 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. From 2013 to 2017, Griffith periodically wrote and worked as a story editor for the NBC television series Grimm and became a co-producer in 2015. In 2021, Griffith reprised the role of Terry Silver from The Karate Kid Part III in Season 4 of Cobra Kai.

Known For: Acting

Born: Hartford, Connecticut, USA, 1962-03-18

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1989	The Karate Kid Part III	Terry Silver	59
2	1990	Rock Hudson	Rock Hudson	50
3	1993	Ulterior Motives	Jack Blaylock	40
4	1993	Excessive Force	Terry McCain	49
5	1994	Blood of the Innocent	Frank Wusharsky	45
6	1994	Crackerjack	Jack Wild	39
7	1996	Hollow Point	Max Parrish	51
8	1997	The Guardian	The Guardian	0
9	1997	Behind Enemy Lines	Mike Weston	49
10	1997	Kull the Conqueror	General Taligaro	51
11	1998	Vampires	Jan Valek	63
12	1999	The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax	Jack Farrell	64
13	1999	Escape from Alaska	Neal Meekin	42
14	1999	Secret of Giving	Harry Withers	71
15	2000	A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle	Doug Brister	0
16	2000	For the Cause	Evans	50
17	2001	High Adventure	Chris Quartermain	60
18	2002	Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues	Cornelius Loudermilk	50
19	2002	xXx	Agent Jim McGrath	59
20	2002	Black Point	Gus Travis	58
21	2003	Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision	Brandon Miller	56
22	2005	Sea Wolf: The Pirate's Curse	Captain Jeffery Thorpe	55
23	2007	Black Friday	Cash	61

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Another World		56
2	1987	Wiseguy		65
3	2003	One Tree Hill	Larry Sawyer	78
4	2003	Cold Case	Mitch	78
5	2005	The Closer	Deputy D.A. Thomas Yates	79
6	2018	Cobra Kai	Terry Silver	82
7	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
8	2024	Cobra Kai: Inside the Dojo	Self	88

Thomas Ian Griffith

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