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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 15, 1946
Place of Birth
Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
Also Known As
- John William Getz
- جان گتز
John Getz
1.5 Popularity
Biography
John Getz is a stage-trained American actor. Getz dropped out of college to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. While working in a winery, he helped found the Theater Company in Napa County, California. His location in the grape-growing Napa Valley led to Getz's television debut in a made-for-television horror film Killer Bees. Killer Bees starred Gloria Swanson, Craig Stevens, Kate Jackson, and Edward Albert. Getz then moved to New York City, where he became active in local theater while doing an 18-month stint as Neil Johnson on the soap opera Another World. Getz appeared in The Happy Hooker and followed up with several other roles before starring in the Coen Brothers' neo-noir thriller Blood Simple. He played the doomed lover of a married woman (Frances McDormand) who woefully misinterprets his increasingly complex circumstances. Getz also appeared in The Fly and The Fly II as Stathis Borans, a science magazine editor who pays a heavy price for his curiosity. Also in 1989, he played a Marine Corps Major in Born on the Fourth of July. In 1991, Getz appeared as the unpleasant boyfriend of professional women in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Curly Sue. In 1990, Getz appeared as a crime boss in the Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez spoof Men At Work. In 1994, he appeared in the film Playmaker, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Rubin. In 2007, he had a role in David Fincher's film Zodiac. Also in 2007, he appeared in Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's documentary film Nanking as George Ashmore Fitch, head of the local YMCA and administrative director of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone. Getz also had a role in Fincher's film The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook. He appeared in the suspense thriller Elevator as a Wall Street executive trapped in an elevator with a group of strangers, one of whom has a bomb. Written and produced by Marc Rosenberg and directed by Stig Svendsen, Elevator was released in July 2012. He appeared in Trumbo (2015) as director Sam Wood. Through the decades, Getz has guest-starred in many television series, including Barney Miller and Three's Company, where he played Lee Tripper, brother of Jack Tripper. He has guest-starred in How I Met Your Mother, Prison Break, The King of Queens and Private Practice, and had recurring roles in Homeland, Timeless and Bosch. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Getz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.5
Elliott Haverhill
A Man on the Inside
2024
6.5
Reverend Simpson
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024
6.1
Warren
Fatal Attraction
2023
8.5
Dr. Edelstein
The Last of Us
2023
7.3
Conrad Pritchard
Alaska Daily
2022
8.0
James Minor
Reservation Dogs
2021
4.9
Sheriff
Body at Brighton Rock
2019
7.6
Paul Trainor
Doom Patrol
2019
6.8
Dwight
Dirty John
2018
6.8
Doug Layton
Dirty John
2018
Credits
A Man on the Inside
as Elliott Haverhill
2024
7.5
The Dead Don't Hurt
as Reverend Simpson
2024
6.5
Fatal Attraction
as Warren
2023
6.1
The Last of Us
as Dr. Edelstein
2023
8.5
Alaska Daily
as Conrad Pritchard
2022
7.3
Reservation Dogs
as James Minor
2021
8.0
Body at Brighton Rock
as Sheriff
2019
4.9
Doom Patrol
as Paul Trainor
2019
7.6
Dirty John
as Dwight
2018
6.8
Dirty John
as Doug Layton
2018
6.8
Brampton's Own
as Bart
2018
4.5
Ghosted
as Director Romslo
2017
6.4
Timeless
as Benjamin Cahill
2016
7.2
Certain Women
as Sheriff Rowles
2016
6.0
Trumbo
as Sam Wood
2015
7.2
The Perfect Guy
as Renkin
2015
5.7
Grace and Frankie
as John
2015
7.7
Better Call Saul
as Chairman
2015
8.7
Bosch
as Bradley Walker
2015
7.9
How to Get Away with Murder
as David Dolan
2014
7.8
Halt and Catch Fire
as Joe MacMillan, Sr.
2014
7.9
Bad Teacher
as Howard
2014
5.5
Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
as Bernard Moss
2013
0.0
Jobs
as Paul Jobs
2013
6.1
Desperate Acts of Magic
as Don Tarzia
2013
4.6
Elevator
as Henry Barton
2013
4.9
Scandal
as Patrick Keating
2012
7.2
Touch
as Henry Williams
2012
6.6
American Horror Story
as Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt
2011
8.1
Homeland
as Joe Crocker
2011
7.6
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
as Self / Sy
2011
7.5
The Social Network
as Sy
2010
7.4
Nikita
as Senator Ed Chappell
2010
7.2
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Senator Lockhart
2009
7.5
Castle
as Gustavo Bauer
2009
8.0
Trust Me
as Peter Derby
2009
6.1
Eleventh Hour
2008
6.6
Swingtown
2008
5.5
A Line in the Sand
as Captain McClenon
2008
0.0
Superhero Movie
as Lunatic Editor
2008
5.3
Hard Four
as Blazedell Woodruff
2007
4.4
Big Shots
2007
7.0
Private Practice
as Mr. Kent
2007
7.5
Mad Men
as Dr. Eric Stone
2007
8.1
Zodiac
as Templeton Peck
2007
7.5
Nanking
as George Fitch
2007
7.2
Day Break
2006
7.4
Shark
2006
6.8
Living 'til the End
as Mr. Hines
2005
3.0
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
as Self
2005
8.0
Ghost Whisperer
as Rudy Wharton
2005
8.1
Criminal Minds
as Andrew Kane
2005
8.3
Close to Home
2005
5.9
How I Met Your Mother
as Bob Hewitt
2005
8.1
Bones
as Steven Frank
2005
8.2
Prison Break
as Dr. Roger Knowlton
2005
8.1
Grey's Anatomy
as Michael Breyers
2005
8.2
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
as Dan
2005
5.4
Medium
as Stuart McCallister
2005
7.5
A Day Without a Mexican
as Senator Abercombie
2004
5.9
Cold Case
as Bill Simmons
2003
7.8
Joan of Arcadia
as D.A. Gabe Fellowes
2003
7.2
NCIS
as Walter Kane
2003
7.6
NCIS
as Captain Thomas Butler
2003
7.6
Hunger Point
as David Hunter
2003
4.2
Without a Trace
as Mr. Garrett
2002
7.2
CSI: Miami
as George Risher
2002
7.7
According to Jim
2001
6.5
Zenon: The Zequel
as General Hammond
2001
5.6
Held for Ransom
as Mr. Kirkland
2000
4.8
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Richard Zeigler
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Bill Harvey
2000
7.6
The West Wing
as Mark B. Sellner
1999
8.3
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Vincent Albers
1999
7.9
Providence
as Dr. Sullivan
1999
6.5
The King of Queens
as Mr. Dugan
1998
7.1
🎬
Maggie
as Dr. Arthur Day
1998
10.0
Some Girl
as Claire's Father
1998
4.7
Painted Hero
as Sheriff Acuff
1997
5.4
Mojave Moon
as Police Officer
1996
4.8
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1996
5.8
A Friend's Betrayal
as Dennis Hewitt
1996
4.7
The Late Shift
as Brandon Tartikoff
1996
6.4
JAG
as Adm. Harrison Spencer
1995
7.3
Ned and Stacey
as Les McDowall
1995
7.2
Awake to Danger
as Steve Murdock
1995
4.0
Fortunes of War
as Franklin Hewitt
1994
3.3
A Passion to Kill
as Jerry
1994
4.1
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
as Roy Buchanan
1994
10.0
Untamed Love
as Dan
1994
5.6
Playmaker
as Eddie
1994
6.2
Betrayal of Trust
as Curt
1994
6.0
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
as Doug Hulin
1993
0.0
Majority Rule
as Paul Taylor
1992
3.0
In My Daughter's Name
as Michael Elias
1992
5.3
Curly Sue
as Walker McCormick
1991
6.4
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
as Gus
1991
6.1
Men at Work
as Maxwell Potterdam III
1990
5.7
Born on the Fourth of July
as Marine Major - Vietnam
1989
7.0
The Fly II
as Stathis Borans
1989
5.7
Police Story: Burnout
as Sgt. Jack Leland
1988
0.0
Murphy Brown
1988
6.5
🎬
Mariah
1987
5.0
The Fly
as Stathis Borans
1986
7.4
🎬
I Want To Go Home
as Thomas Sanders
1985
0.0
MacGruder and Loud
as Malcom MacGruder
1985
4.5
Thief of Hearts
as Ray Davis
1984
5.3
Murder, She Wrote
as Jonas Cole
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Kyle Kimball
1984
7.5
Concrete Beat
as Mickey Thompson
1984
4.0
Blood Simple
as Ray
1984
7.2
🎬
Maggie Briggs
1984
0.0
🎬
Not in Front of the Children
as Dr. Paul Adams
1982
6.0
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
as Dan Waters
1982
0.0
Tattoo
as Buddy
1981
4.9
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
as Lester Dederow
1981
0.0
Kent State
as Prof. Ted Arnold
1981
6.0
A Woman Called Moses
as Stewart
1978
7.0
Loose Change
as John Campbell
1978
0.0
On Our Own
as Tom Ericson
1977
5.0
🎬
Rafferty
1977
5.0
Three's Company
as Lee Tripper
1977
7.7
The Andros Targets
as Dan Bridger
1977
5.0
The Sentinel
as Film Crew (uncredited)
1977
6.1
Wonder Woman
as Christian Harrison
1975
7.0
The Happy Hooker
as Trout Fisherman
1975
3.8
Barney Miller
as William McKuen
1975
7.3
Killer Bees
as Attendant
1974
4.3
ABC Afterschool Special
as Thomas Sanders
1972
6.4
Another World
1964
5.6