Holmes Osborne (born November 7, 1947) is an American character actor who has worked in film and television, including notable roles in That Thing You Do!
In 1966 when still a student at the University of Kansas, he began making training videos and short motivational clips that would typically be shown as business events and seminars.
[2] In 1996, Osborne played the protagonist's father in the Tom Hanks-directed musical comedy-drama movie That Thing You Do!
Later that year he guest starred, along with Lance Henriksen (reprising his role as Frank Black), in an episode of The X-Files as a necromancer for the Millennium Group.
In 2007, Osborne reunited with Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly on the political satire Southland Tales, and again in 2009 on the psychological thriller The Box.