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.
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Filmography
all 118
TV Shows 62
Movies 56
self 2
Director 1
The Last of Us (2023)
Reservation Dogs (2021)
Body at Brighton Rock (2019)
Doom Patrol (2019)
Dirty John (2018)
Brampton's Own (2018)
Ghosted (2017)
Timeless (2016)
Certain Women (2016)
Trumbo (2015)
The Perfect Guy (2015)
Better Call Saul (2015)
Bosch (2015)
How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
Bad Teacher (2014)
Eagleheart: Paradise Rising (2013)
Jobs (2013)
Desperate Acts of Magic (2013)
Elevator (2013)
Scandal (2012)
American Horror Story (2011)
Homeland (2011)
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? (2011)
The Social Network (2010)
Nikita (2010)
Castle (2009)
Trust Me (2009)
Eleventh Hour (2008)
Swingtown (2008)
A Line in the Sand (2008)
Superhero Movie (2008)
Hard Four (2007)
Big Shots (2007)
Private Practice (2007)
Mad Men (2007)
Zodiac (2007)
Nanking (2007)
Day Break (2006)
Shark (2006)
Living 'til the End (2005)
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly (2005)
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Criminal Minds (2005)
Close to Home (2005)
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Bones (2005)
Prison Break (2005)
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder (2005)
Medium (2005)
Cold Case (2003)
Joan of Arcadia (2003)
NCIS (2003)
Hunger Point (2003)
Without a Trace (2002)
CSI: Miami (2002)
Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
Held for Ransom (2000)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
The West Wing (1999)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Providence (1999)
The King of Queens (1998)
Maggie (1998)
Some Girl (1998)
Painted Hero (1997)
Mojave Moon (1996)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996)
A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
The Late Shift (1996)
JAG (1995)
Ned and Stacey (1995)
Awake to Danger (1995)
Fortunes of War (1994)
A Passion to Kill (1994)
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (1994)
Untamed Love (1994)
Playmaker (1994)
Betrayal of Trust (1994)
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (1993)
Majority Rule (1992)
In My Daughter's Name (1992)
Curly Sue (1991)
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Men at Work (1990)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
The Fly II (1989)
Police Story: Burnout (1988)
Murphy Brown (1988)
Mariah (1987)
The Fly (1986)
The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985)
I Want To Go Home (1985)
MacGruder and Loud (1985)
Thief of Hearts (1984)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Blood Simple (1984)
Concrete Beat (1984)
Maggie Briggs (1984)
Not in Front of the Children (1982)
Muggable Mary: Street Cop (1982)
Tattoo (1981)
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981)
Kent State (1981)
A Woman Called Moses (1978)
Loose Change (1978)
On Our Own (1977)
Rafferty (1977)
Three's Company (1977)
The Andros Targets (1977)
The Sentinel (1977)
Wonder Woman (1975)
The Happy Hooker (1975)
Barney Miller (1975)
Killer Bees (1974)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
Another World (1964)
A Classic Spy
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GenderMale
Birthday1946-10-15 (77 years old)
Birth PlaceDavenport, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJohn William Getz
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