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.
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Series | Doom Patrol | Paul Trainor | 2019-02-15 |
Movie | Brampton's Own | Bart | 2018-10-19 |
Series | Ghosted | Director Romslo | 2017-10-01 |
Series | Timeless | Benjamin Cahill | 2016-10-03 |
Movie | Certain Women | Sheriff Rowles | 2016-09-25 |
Movie | Trumbo | Sam Wood | 2015-10-27 |
Movie | The Perfect Guy | Renkin | 2015-09-11 |
Series | Better Call Saul | Chairman | 2015-02-08 |
Series | Bosch | Bradley Walker | 2015-01-14 |
Series | How to Get Away with Murder | David Dolan | 2014-09-25 |
Movie | Eagleheart: Paradise Rising | Bernard Moss | 2013-12-13 |
Movie | Jobs | Paul Jobs | 2013-08-15 |
Movie | Desperate Acts of Magic | Don Tarzia | 2013-05-03 |
Movie | Elevator | Henry Barton | 2013-02-18 |
Movie | How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? | Self / Sy | 2011-01-11 |
Series | American Horror Story | Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt | 2011-10-05 |
Series | Homeland | Joe Crocker | 2011-10-02 |
Movie | The Social Network | Sy | 2010-10-01 |
Series | Nikita | Senator Ed Chappell | 2010-09-09 |
Series | Castle | Gustavo Bauer | 2009-03-09 |
Series | Trust Me | Unknown | 2009-01-26 |
Series | Eleventh Hour | Unknown | 2008-10-09 |
Series | Swingtown | Unknown | 2008-06-05 |
Movie | A Line in the Sand | Captain McClenon | 2008-05-15 |
Movie | Superhero Movie | Lunatic Editor | 2008-03-28 |
Movie | Nanking | George Fitch | 2007-02-10 |
Movie | Zodiac | Templeton Peck | 2007-03-02 |
Series | Private Practice | Unknown | 2007-09-26 |
Series | Mad Men | Unknown | 2007-07-19 |
Series | Big Shots | Unknown | 2007-09-27 |
Movie | Hard Four | Blazedell Woodruff | 2007-11-01 |
Series | Shark | Unknown | 2006-09-21 |
Series | Day Break | Unknown | 2006-11-15 |
Series | How I Met Your Mother | Bob Hewitt | 2005-09-19 |
Series | Medium | Unknown | 2005-01-03 |
Series | Prison Break | Dr. Roger Knowlton | 2005-08-29 |
Series | Bones | Steven Frank | 2005-09-13 |
Movie | Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder | Dan | 2005-02-25 |
Series | Close to Home | Unknown | 2005-09-20 |
Series | Criminal Minds | Andrew Kane | 2005-09-22 |
Series | Ghost Whisperer | Unknown | 2005-09-23 |
Movie | Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly | Self | 2005-10-04 |
Movie | Living 'til the End | Mr. Hines | 2005-10-21 |
Series | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown | 2005-03-27 |
Series | Cold Case | Unknown | 2003-09-28 |
Series | Joan of Arcadia | Unknown | 2003-09-26 |
Series | NCIS | Unknown | 2003-09-23 |
Series | Mystery Woman | Unknown | 2003-08-31 |
Movie | Hunger Point | David Hunter | 2003-01-13 |
Series | Without a Trace | Mr. Garrett | 2002-09-26 |
Series | CSI: Miami | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
Series | According to Jim | Unknown | 2001-10-03 |
Movie | Zenon: The Zequel | General Hammond | 2001-01-12 |
Movie | Requiem for a Dream | Party Animal | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Held for Ransom | Mr. Kirkland | 2000-11-14 |
Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Bill Harvey | 2000-10-06 |
Series | The West Wing | Unknown | 1999-09-22 |
Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Admiral Vincent Albers | 1999-09-20 |
Series | Providence | Unknown | 1999-01-08 |
Series | The King of Queens | Unknown | 1998-09-21 |
Series | Maggie | Dr. Arthur Day | 1998-08-18 |
Movie | Some Girl | Claire's Father | 1998-04-19 |
Movie | Painted Hero | Sheriff Acuff | 1997-09-16 |
Movie | Mojave Moon | Police Officer | 1996-11-15 |
Series | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Unknown | 1996-09-20 |
Movie | A Friend's Betrayal | Dennis Hewitt | 1996-05-19 |
Movie | The Late Shift | Brandon Tartikoff | 1996-02-24 |
Movie | Awake to Danger | Steve Murdock | 1995-03-12 |
Series | JAG | Unknown | 1995-09-23 |
Movie | Fortunes of War | Franklin Hewitt | 1994-12-07 |
Movie | A Passion to Kill | Jerry | 1994-11-04 |
Series | The 5 Mrs. Buchanans | Unknown | 1994-09-24 |
Movie | Untamed Love | Dan | 1994-08-03 |
Movie | Playmaker | Eddie | 1994-05-14 |
Movie | Majority Rule | Paul Taylor | 1992-10-27 |
Movie | In My Daughter's Name | Michael Elias | 1992-05-10 |
Movie | Curly Sue | Walker McCormick | 1991-10-25 |
Movie | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Gus | 1991-06-07 |
Movie | Men at Work | Maxwell Potterdam III | 1990-08-24 |
Movie | Born on the Fourth of July | Marine Major - Vietnam | 1989-12-20 |
Movie | The Fly II | Stathis Borans | 1989-02-10 |
Movie | Police Story: Burnout | Sgt. Jack Leland | 1988-11-26 |
Series | Murphy Brown | Unknown | 1988-11-14 |
Series | Mariah | 1987-04-01 | |
Movie | The Fly | Stathis Borans | 1986-08-15 |
Series | MacGruder and Loud | Malcom MacGruder | 1985-01-21 |
Movie | Blood Simple | Ray | 1985-01-18 |
Movie | Thief of Hearts | Ray Davis | 1984-10-19 |
Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
Movie | Concrete Beat | 1984-07-09 | |
Series | Maggie Briggs | 1984-03-04 | |
Movie | Not in Front of the Children | Dr. Paul Adams | 1982-10-26 |
Movie | Muggable Mary, Street Cop | Dan Waters | 1982-02-25 |
Movie | Muggable Mary: Street Cop | Dan Waters | 1982-02-25 |
Movie | Kent State | Prof. Ted Arnold | 1981-02-08 |
Movie | Rivkin: Bounty Hunter | Lester Dederow | 1981-05-20 |
Movie | Tattoo | Buddy | 1981-10-09 |
Series | A Woman Called Moses | Stewart | 1978-12-11 |
Series | Rafferty | 1977-09-05 | |
Series | Three's Company | Lee Tripper | 1977-03-15 |
Series | The Andros Targets | Unknown | 1977-01-31 |
Movie | The Sentinel | Film Crew (uncredited) | 1977-01-07 |
Series | Wonder Woman | Unknown | 1975-11-07 |
Movie | The Happy Hooker | Trout Fisherman | 1975-05-08 |
Series | Barney Miller | Unknown | 1975-01-23 |
Movie | Killer Bees | Attendant | 1974-02-26 |
Series | ABC Afterschool Special | Unknown | 1972-10-04 |
Series | Another World | 1964-05-04 |