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John William Getz
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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1946-10-15
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 10.2
- info Birth Place Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by John Getz
5.7
Men at Work
1990-08-24
7.6
Zodiac
2007-03-02
5.7
The Fly II
1989-02-10
6.4
The Late Shift
1996-02-24
7.3
Blood Simple
1984-03-26
6.5
Curly Sue
1991-10-25
0
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
1982-02-25
7.4
The Fly
1986-08-15
5.6
Zenon: The Zequel
2001-01-12
6.1
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991-06-07
5.5
Hard Four
2007-11-01
7.2
Nanking
2007-02-10
5.3
Thief of Hearts
1984-10-19
5.5
Tattoo
1981-10-09
6.1
The Sentinel
1977-01-07
3
Living 'til the End
2005-10-21
0
Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
2013-12-13
4.9
Elevator
2013-02-18
5.4
Painted Hero
1997-09-16
4.6
Desperate Acts of Magic
2013-05-03
5.8
Held for Ransom
2000-11-14
8
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
2005-10-04
0
A Line in the Sand
2008-05-15
4.7
A Passion to Kill
1994-11-04
0
I Want To Go Home
1985-02-13
5.3
In My Daughter's Name
1992-05-10
4
Awake to Danger
1995-03-12
0
Loose Change
1978-02-26
0
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
1981-05-20
0
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993-05-24
4.2
Hunger Point
2003-01-13
7
Born on the Fourth of July
1989-12-20
5.6
Untamed Love
1994-08-03
6
Kent State
1981-02-08
7.4
The Social Network
2010-10-01
4
The Happy Hooker
1975-05-08
6
Certain Women
2016-09-25
7.2
Trumbo
2015-10-27
6.5
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024-05-01
3.3
Fortunes of War
1994-12-07
4
Concrete Beat
1984-07-09
5.7
The Perfect Guy
2015-09-11
5.8
A Day Without a Mexican
2004-05-14
4.5
A Friend's Betrayal
1996-05-19
6.1
Playmaker
1994-05-14
5.4
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
2005-02-25
7.6
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
2011-01-11
4.3
Killer Bees
1974-02-26
3
Majority Rule
1992-10-27
4.5
Brampton's Own
2018-10-19
6
Not in Front of the Children
1982-10-26
5
Body at Brighton Rock
2019-03-23
0
Police Story: Burnout
1988-11-26
5.3
Superhero Movie
2008-03-28
5
Mojave Moon
1996-11-15
6.2
Jobs
2013-08-15
5.1
Some Girl
1998-04-19
6
Betrayal of Trust
1994-01-03
7.5
Medium
2005-01-03
7.6
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
8.1
Mad Men
2007-07-19
8.2
How I Met Your Mother
2005-09-19
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06
6.8
Shark
2006-09-21
7.3
Joan of Arcadia
2003-09-26
8.1
Ghost Whisperer
2005-09-23
10
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
1994-09-24
6.5
Providence
1999-01-08
6.5
According to Jim
2001-10-03
7.8
Cold Case
2003-09-28
6.5
Murphy Brown
1988-11-14
7.3
Without a Trace
2002-09-26
7
Big Shots
2007-09-27
7.8
Three's Company
1977-03-15
8.4
Criminal Minds
2005-09-22
7.6
Private Practice
2007-09-26
7.1
The King of Queens
1998-09-21
7
Wonder Woman
1975-11-07
7.3
JAG
1995-09-23
6.1
Close to Home
2005-09-20
5
Another World
1964-05-04
6.6
Eleventh Hour
2008-10-09
5.7
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1996-09-20
5.5
Swingtown
2008-06-05
5
MacGruder and Loud
1985-01-21
6.6
Trust Me
2009-01-26
10
Maggie
1998-08-18
6.3
ABC Afterschool Special
1972-10-04
5
Mariah
1987-04-01
5
The Andros Targets
1977-01-31
0
Maggie Briggs
1984-03-04
5
Rafferty
1977-09-05
7.2
Nikita
2010-09-09
8.1
Castle
2009-03-09
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06
7.9
How to Get Away with Murder
2014-09-25
8.3
The West Wing
1999-09-22
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20
7.6
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
8.3
Grey's Anatomy
2005-03-27
6.8
Dirty John
2018-11-25
8.1
Reservation Dogs
2021-08-09
7.6
Homeland
2011-10-02
7.3
Timeless
2016-10-03
8.7
Better Call Saul
2015-02-08
6.4
Ghosted
2017-10-01
7.8
CSI: Miami
2002-09-23
6.9
A Woman Called Moses
1978-12-11
5.5
Bad Teacher
2014-04-24
7.2
Scandal
2012-04-05
7.4
Day Break
2006-11-15
8.1
Prison Break
2005-08-29
0
A Man on the Inside
2024-11-21
5
On Our Own
1977-10-09
7.7
NCIS
2003-09-23
6.8
Dirty John
2018-11-25
7.3
Alaska Daily
2022-10-06
8.1
American Horror Story
2011-10-05
8.3
Bones
2005-09-13
7.7
Grace and Frankie
2015-05-08
7.3
Barney Miller
1975-01-23
8.6
The Last of Us
2023-01-15
6.6
Touch
2012-01-25
8
Halt and Catch Fire
2014-06-01
7.9
Bosch
2015-01-14
7.6
Doom Patrol
2019-02-15
7.2
Ned and Stacey
1995-09-11