Character actor Tom Towles dies at 65

Tom Towles, a character actor who made a career out of playing unlikable guys in dozens of films and TV series, has died. He was 65.

Director Rob Zombie reported the news on his Facebook page.

Stuart Gordon attributed the death to a massive stroke.

The Chicago-born Towles had roles in Zombie's films House Of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Halloween and Grindhouse.

Towles played Otis in Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer. And he was Harry Cooper in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead.

He also had roles in Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and Firefly.