1946-10-15 ( 78 years old ) in Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
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.
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Movies
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024-05-01
Body at Brighton Rock
2019-03-23
Brampton's Own
2018-10-19
Certain Women
2016-09-25
Trumbo
2015-10-27
The Perfect Guy
2015-09-11
Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
2013-12-13
Jobs
2013-08-15
Desperate Acts of Magic
2013-05-03
Elevator
2013-02-18
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
2011-01-11
The Social Network
2010-10-01
A Line in the Sand
2008-05-15
Superhero Movie
2008-03-28
Hard Four
2007-11-01
Zodiac
2007-03-02
Nanking
2007-02-10
Living 'til the End
2005-10-21
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
2005-10-04
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
2005-02-25
A Day Without a Mexican
2004-05-14
Hunger Point
2003-01-13
Zenon: The Zequel
2001-01-12
Held for Ransom
2000-11-14
Some Girl
1998-04-19
Painted Hero
1997-09-16
Mojave Moon
1996-11-15
A Friend's Betrayal
1996-05-19
The Late Shift
1996-02-24
Awake to Danger
1995-03-12
Fortunes of War
1994-12-07
A Passion to Kill
1994-11-04
Untamed Love
1994-08-03
Playmaker
1994-05-14
Betrayal of Trust
1994-01-03
Majority Rule
1992-10-27
In My Daughter's Name
1992-05-10
Curly Sue
1991-10-25
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991-06-07
Men at Work
1990-08-24
Born on the Fourth of July
1989-12-20
The Fly II
1989-02-10
Police Story: Burnout
1988-11-26
The Fly
1986-08-15
I Want To Go Home
1985-02-13
Thief of Hearts
1984-10-19
Concrete Beat
1984-07-09
Blood Simple
1984-03-26
Not in Front of the Children
1982-10-26
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
1982-02-25
Tattoo
1981-10-09
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
1981-05-20
Kent State
1981-02-08
Loose Change
1978-02-26
The Sentinel
1977-01-07
The Happy Hooker
1975-05-08
Killer Bees
1974-02-26
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