John Getz

​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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The Social Network

7.4

Zodiac

7.5

Grey's Anatomy

8.2

American Horror Story

8.1

Better Call Saul

8.7

The Last of Us

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Prison Break

8.1

How I Met Your Mother

8.1

The Fly

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.9

Criminal Minds

8.3

Bones

8.2

Jobs

6.1

NCIS

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Homeland

7.6

Castle

8.0

Superhero Movie

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Ghost Whisperer

8.1

Born on the Fourth of July

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How to Get Away with Murder

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CSI: Miami

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Trumbo

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Blood Simple

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Doom Patrol

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

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Mad Men

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NCIS: Los Angeles

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Timeless

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The Fly II

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The King of Queens

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Bosch

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Scandal

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Curly Sue

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Medium

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The West Wing

8.2

Halt and Catch Fire

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Nikita

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Wonder Woman

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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

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Cold Case

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Men at Work

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Murder, She Wrote

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JAG

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Certain Women

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According to Jim

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Private Practice

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The Perfect Guy

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Grace and Frankie

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Touch

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Reservation Dogs

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Without a Trace

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The Sentinel

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Three's Company

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The Dead Don't Hurt

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Ghosted

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Dirty John

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Elevator

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Zenon: The Zequel

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A Man on the Inside

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Shark

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Day Break

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Joan of Arcadia

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Alaska Daily

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Murphy Brown

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A Day Without a Mexican

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Body at Brighton Rock

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The Late Shift

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Nanking

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Eleventh Hour

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Barney Miller

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Fatal Attraction

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Mojave Moon

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Thief of Hearts

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Bad Teacher

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Brampton's Own

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Providence

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How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?

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Close to Home

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Killer Bees

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Tattoo

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Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder

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Hunger Point

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The Happy Hooker

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ABC Afterschool Special

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Ned and Stacey

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Swingtown

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Playmaker

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Some Girl

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Big Shots

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Another World

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Untamed Love

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Trust Me

6.1

A Woman Called Moses

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A Passion to Kill

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Painted Hero

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Desperate Acts of Magic

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Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly

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Held for Ransom

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Hard Four

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In My Daughter's Name

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Fortunes of War

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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Awake to Danger

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Kent State

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Concrete Beat

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Maggie

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Living 'til the End

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Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story

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A Friend's Betrayal

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Majority Rule

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Not in Front of the Children

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Betrayal of Trust

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The 5 Mrs. Buchanans

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MacGruder and Loud

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Mariah

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The Andros Targets

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Rafferty

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On Our Own

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Muggable Mary: Street Cop

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Eagleheart: Paradise Rising

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A Line in the Sand

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I Want To Go Home

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Loose Change

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Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

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Police Story: Burnout

0.0

Maggie Briggs

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