He also played Duggie Ferguson in Coronation Street from 1999 to 2002, having previously appeared in another of Granada TV's soap operas, Families.
Other TV credits include: Warship, Secret Army, Boon, The New Statesman, Capital City, Class Act, Lovejoy, Silent Witness, The Royal, Dalziel and Pascoe, Cleopatra and Einstein and Eddington, Tipping the Velvet, The Hour and DCI Banks and Soldier Soldier.
In April 2010, Bowe joined the cast of London's West End production Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – The Musical, playing the part of Bob.
In September 2011, he appeared as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Chichester, a role he continued in the West End transfer in 2012.
Bowe's departure from Emmerdale was announced in April 2017, however, he did not leave until January 2018, when his character was killed off in a car accident.