Tom, one of 5 children born in Michigan to Donald and Sofka Ohmer, learned from a very young age to greatly appreciate being an American. His mother, born in Bulgaria and raised in Austria, was interned by the Nazis during World War II. The Americans liberated her and her family and she moved to the United States and met his dad Donald who was serving in the U.S. Army.

After being raised in Carmel, Indiana and graduating from Carmel High School in 1974, Tom followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the U.S. Army.

Three years later he attended Indiana University where he became a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.

Tom’s first taste of show business came after being selected to participate as a model in the IU all campus “Little 500 Fashion Show”.

When the motion picture Breaking Away started to film on IU’s campus that summer, he obtained a small role as a fraternity jock and the acting bug hit him.

Tom moved to Chicago, modeled and acted in numerous commercials until he decided to “go for it” and came to Hollywood in 1981 to pursue his acting career.

He enrolled in several acting classes and soon landed his first role on Dynasty as Joan Collins chauffeur.

Tom continued to study and did several guest starring and co-starring roles on TV shows such as Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, Cheers, Young and the Restless and had a recurring role as “Adam Thomas” on Days of Our Lives.

In 1988 Tom decided to pursue another dream he had – becoming a police officer like his grandfather (a Michigan motorcycle officer in the 1930’s). He joined the Los Angeles Police Department and while there they used his acting skills to film numerous LAPD training films.

After working the LA Riots in 1992, Tom decided to leave the LAPD and joined the Simi Valley Police Department where he became a motorcycle officer.

While a police officer, he used his law enforcement experience to continue his acting part-time and performed as a police officer in numerous TV shows and films such as Forget Paris, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place and Baywatch. He also filmed dozens of national commercials including Bud Light, Holiday Inn, Cadillac, First 5 of California, McDonalds, Comcast, Unisom, Eagle Eyes, Kellogg’s and Burger King.

Tom recently retired as a full time police officer to devote all his time to his acting career. He has a recurring role on Monk, played the lead in Hit and Run, and has appeared in Drive, Sleeper Cell, Crossing Jordan, and Passions. 

Early in 2006, Tom reunited with and married his college sweetheart, Marsha Dunfee and they are raising their blended teenage family of two boys and a girl in Thousand Oaks, California.

He and his wife take part in numerous celebrity charity events and are very active in their community church.

He is currently an Active Reserve Police Officer with the Simi Valley Police Department and was awarded Reserve Officer of the Year in 2003 and in 2005.

In his spare time he loves to hang out with his family, play golf, watch movies in his home theater (that he designed and built himself) and ride his Harley-Davidson.

He just completed work on Charlie Wilson’s War, The Unit and Moonlight and has several commercials running.