John Getz
Acting • Born 1946-10-15
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 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.
Filmography
136 credits
Men at Work
Movie • 1990
Maxwell Potterdam III
Zodiac
Movie • 2007
Templeton Peck
The Fly II
Movie • 1989
Stathis Borans
The Late Shift
Movie • 1996
Brandon Tartikoff
Blood Simple
Movie • 1985
Ray
Curly Sue
Movie • 1991
Walker McCormick
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Movie • 1982
Dan Waters
The Fly
Movie • 1986
Stathis Borans
Zenon: The Zequel
Movie • 2001
General Hammond
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Movie • 1991
Gus
Hard Four
Movie • 2007
Blazedell Woodruff
Nanking
Movie • 2007
George Fitch
Thief of Hearts
Movie • 1984
Ray Davis
Tattoo
Movie • 1981
Buddy
The Sentinel
Movie • 1977
Film Crew (uncredited)
Living 'til the End
Movie • 2005
Mr. Hines
Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
Movie • 2013
Bernard Moss
Elevator
Movie • 2013
Henry Barton
Painted Hero
Movie • 1997
Sheriff Acuff
Desperate Acts of Magic
Movie • 2013
Don Tarzia
Held for Ransom
Movie • 2000
Mr. Kirkland
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
Movie • 2005
Self
A Line in the Sand
Movie • 2008
Captain McClenon
A Passion to Kill
Movie • 1994
Jerry
I Want To Go Home
Movie • 1985
Thomas Sanders
Awake to Danger
Movie • 1995
Steve Murdock
In My Daughter's Name
Movie • 1992
Michael Elias
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Movie • 1981
Lester Dederow
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
Movie • 1993
Doug Hulin
Hunger Point
Movie • 2003
David Hunter
Born on the Fourth of July
Movie • 1989
Marine Major - Vietnam
Untamed Love
Movie • 1994
Dan
Kent State
Movie • 1981
Prof. Ted Arnold
The Social Network
Movie • 2010
Sy
The Happy Hooker
Movie • 1975
Trout Fisherman
Certain Women
Movie • 2016
Sheriff Rowles
Trumbo
Movie • 2015
Sam Wood
The Dead Don't Hurt
Movie • 2024
Reverend Simpson
Fortunes of War
Movie • 1994
Franklin Hewitt
Concrete Beat
Movie • 1984
Mickey Thompson
The Perfect Guy
Movie • 2015
Renkin
A Day Without a Mexican
Movie • 2004
Senator Abercombie
A Friend's Betrayal
Movie • 1996
Dennis Hewitt
Playmaker
Movie • 1994
Eddie
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
Movie • 2005
Dan
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Movie • 2011
Self / Sy
Killer Bees
Movie • 1974
Attendant
Majority Rule
Movie • 1992
Paul Taylor
Brampton's Own
Movie • 2018
Bart
Not in Front of the Children
Movie • 1982
Dr. Paul Adams
Body at Brighton Rock
Movie • 2019
Sheriff
Police Story: Burnout
Movie • 1988
Sgt. Jack Leland
Superhero Movie
Movie • 2008
Lunatic Editor
Mojave Moon
Movie • 1996
Police Officer
Jobs
Movie • 2013
Paul Jobs
Some Girl
Movie • 1998
Claire's Father
Betrayal of Trust
Movie • 1994
Curt
Home, James, and Don't Spare the Horses
Movie • 2006
Maurice Perrin
Medium
TV • 2005
Stuart McCallister
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Jonas Cole
Mad Men
TV • 2007
Dr. Eric Stone
How I Met Your Mother
TV • 2005
Bob Hewitt
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Richard Zeigler
Shark
TV • 2006
Judge Nicholas
Joan of Arcadia
TV • 2003
D.A. Gabe Fellowes
Ghost Whisperer
TV • 2005
Rudy Wharton
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
TV • 1994
Roy Buchanan
Providence
TV • 1999
Dr. Sullivan
According to Jim
TV • 2001
Frank
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Bill Simmons
Murphy Brown
TV • 1988
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Mr. Garrett
Big Shots
TV • 2007
Walter Storrs
Three's Company
TV • 1977
Lee Tripper
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Andrew Kane
Private Practice
TV • 2007
Mr. Kent
The King of Queens
TV • 1998
Mr. Dugan
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Christian Harrison
JAG
TV • 1995
Adm. Harrison Spencer
Another World
TV • 1964
Close to Home
TV • 2005
Maurice Hardecker
Eleventh Hour
TV • 2008
William Gregory
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TV • 1996
Swingtown
TV • 2008
MacGruder and Loud
TV • 1985
Malcom MacGruder
Trust Me
TV • 2009
Peter Derby
Maggie
TV • 1998
Dr. Arthur Day
ABC Afterschool Special
TV • 1972
Thomas Sanders
Mariah
TV • 1987
The Andros Targets
TV • 1977
Dan Bridger
Maggie Briggs
TV • 1984
Rafferty
TV • 1977
Dr. Daniel Gentry
Nikita
TV • 2010
Senator Ed Chappell
Castle
TV • 2009
Gustavo Bauer
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Bill Harvey
How to Get Away with Murder
TV • 2014
David Dolan
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Mark B. Sellner
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Vincent Albers
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Kyle Kimball
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Michael Breyers
Dirty John
TV • 2018
Dwight
Reservation Dogs
TV • 2021
James Minor
Homeland
TV • 2011
Joe Crocker
Timeless
TV • 2016
Benjamin Cahill
Better Call Saul
TV • 2015
Chairman
Ghosted
TV • 2017
Director Romslo
CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
George Risher
A Woman Called Moses
TV • 1978
Stewart
Bad Teacher
TV • 2014
Howard
Scandal
TV • 2012
Patrick Keating
Day Break
TV • 2006
Judge Tobias Booth
Prison Break
TV • 2005
Dr. Roger Knowlton
NCIS
TV • 2003
Walter Kane
Dirty John
TV • 2018
Doug Layton
Alaska Daily
TV • 2022
Conrad Pritchard
American Horror Story
TV • 2011
Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt
Bones
TV • 2005
Steven Frank
Grace and Frankie
TV • 2015
John
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
William McKuen
The Last of Us
TV • 2023
Dr. Edelstein
Touch
TV • 2012
Henry Williams
Halt and Catch Fire
TV • 2014
Joe MacMillan, Sr.
Bosch
TV • 2015
Bradley Walker
Doom Patrol
TV • 2019
Paul Trainor
Ned & Stacey
TV • 1995
Les McDowall
NCIS
TV • 2003
Captain Thomas Butler
A Man on the Inside
TV • 2024
Elliott Haverhill
Fatal Attraction
TV • 2023
Warren
NCIS: Los Angeles
TV • 2009
Senator Lockhart
The Guardian
TV • 2001
Wendell Rapke
Wanted
TV • 2005
Mr. Salinger
Las Vegas
TV • 2003
Freddie Smith
On Our Own
TV • 1977
Tom Ericson
Loose Change
TV • 1978
John Campbell
Transparent
TV • 2014
Donald
The Pitt
TV • 2025
Lloyd Wilkins