---
name: "Rob Garrison"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rob-garrison"
fi1m_id: "rob-garrison"
imdb_id: "nm0308459"
tmdb_id: 23919
wikidata_id: "Q68851099"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 January 1960"
died: "27 September 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T19:27:57.852768+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rob Garrison

## Identity

Rob Garrison

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rob-garrison
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rob-garrison
- **IMDb ID:** nm0308459
- **TMDB ID:** 23919
- **Wikidata ID:** Q68851099
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Garrison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68851099, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23919

Actor. Born 23 January 1960 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. Died 27 September 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 January 1960, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
- **Died:** 27 September 2019
- **Active:** 1984–2018
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 72 (2), 2010s 70 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Family 2, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $206m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Garrison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68851099, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23919

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Karate Kid*](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Rob Garrison was an American actor. He was born on 23 January 1960 in Wheeling, West Virginia, and died there on 27 September 2019. He studied theatre at Ohio University on a full scholarship and began his career in the late 1970s.

Garrison is best known for playing Tommy, a member of the Cobra Kai, in *The Karate Kid* (1984) and *The Karate Kid Part II* (1986). He reprised the role in the second season of the series *Cobra Kai* (2019). His other film credits include *Brubaker* (1980), *Prom Night* (1980) and *Iron Eagle* (1986). Television appearances include episodes of *St. Elsewhere*, *Coach*, *Columbo* and *MacGyver*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rollingstone.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Cobra Kai* (2018), Fi1m 70, as Tommy — [page](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md)
- *The Karate Kid Part II* (1986), Fi1m 62, as Tommy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid-part-ii.md)
- *The Karate Kid* (1984), Fi1m 81, as Tommy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cobra Kai* (2018), series, as Tommy · In Memory Of — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/cobra-kai.md)
- *The Pledge* (2011), as Pat Kern
- *Sweep the Leg* (2007), as Tommy
- *Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal* (1990), as Billy Dare
- *Coach* (1989), series, as Insurance Salesman
- *Human Error* (1988), Actor
- *The Karate Kid Part II* (1986), as Tommy — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid-part-ii.md)
- *Iron Eagle* (1986), as Packer
- *Best Revenge* (1984), as Eddie
- *The Karate Kid* (1984), as Tommy — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid.md)
- *St. Elsewhere* (1982), series, as Bomber — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/st-elsewhere.md)
- *Prom Night* (1980), as Sayer
- *Brubaker* (1980), as Pretty Boy
- *Lost and Found* (1979), as Ed Connally
- *Search and Destroy* (1979), as R.J.
- *Columbo* (1971), series, as Young Man — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/columbo.md)

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