- Was considered for the role of Det. Andy Sipowitz on NYPD Blue (1993).
- Served in the Marine Corps.
- Has been in six movies with Bill Moseley (Night of the Living Dead (1990), House of 1000 Corpses (2003), Home Sick (2007) and The Devil's Rejects (2005), Grindhouse (2007) and Halloween (2007)).
- Although this fact was not very well known during his lifetime, Towles was African-American. His parents were both black, with his father's family being from Alabama and Arkansas, and his mother's from Tennessee. Tom's aunts, his father's sisters, were Lois Towles, a prominent concert pianist, and Dorothea Church, who was the first black model to find fame in Europe.
- He was the son of Katheryn (Sanderson) and Thomas E. Towles.
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