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John Getz

John Getz

Actor · Born 1946-10-15 · Davenport, Iowa, U.S.

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Biography

​John Getz (born October 15, 1946) is an 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 D…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Social Network (2010) — Sy
  2. Zodiac (2007) — Templeton Peck
  3. Grey's Anatomy (2005) — Michael Breyers
  4. The Last of Us (2023) — Dr. Edelstein
  5. Better Call Saul (2015) — Chairman
  6. American Horror Story (2011) — Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt
  7. Prison Break (2005) — Dr. Roger Knowlton
  8. How I Met Your Mother (2005) — Bob Hewitt
  9. The Fly (1986) — Stathis Borans
  10. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Vincent Albers
  11. Criminal Minds (2005) — Andrew Kane
  12. Bones (2005) — Steven Frank
  13. Homeland (2011) — Joe Crocker
  14. Jobs (2013) — Paul Jobs
  15. NCIS (2003) — Walter Kane
  16. Castle (2009) — Gustavo Bauer
  17. Superhero Movie (2008) — Lunatic Editor
  18. Born on the Fourth of July (1989) — Marine Major - Vietnam
  19. Ghost Whisperer (2005) — Rudy Wharton
  20. How to Get Away with Murder (2014) — David Dolan
  21. CSI: Miami (2002) — George Risher
  22. Trumbo (2015) — Sam Wood
  23. Blood Simple (1985) — Ray
  24. Mad Men (2007) — Dr. Eric Stone
  25. Doom Patrol (2019) — Paul Trainor
  26. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) — Richard Zeigler
  27. NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) — Senator Lockhart
  28. The Pitt (2025) — Lloyd Wilkins
  29. Timeless (2016) — Benjamin Cahill
  30. The King of Queens (1998) — Mr. Dugan
  31. The Fly II (1989) — Stathis Borans
  32. Bosch (2015) — Bradley Walker
  33. Scandal (2012) — Patrick Keating
  34. The West Wing (1999) — Mark B. Sellner
  35. Medium (2005) — Stuart McCallister
  36. Curly Sue (1991) — Walker McCormick
  37. Halt and Catch Fire (2014) — Joe MacMillan, Sr.
  38. Nikita (2010) — Senator Ed Chappell
  39. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) — Gus
  40. Wonder Woman (1975) — Christian Harrison