John Heard

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-03-07 (71 years old)

Deathday

2017-07-21

Place of Birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

John Heard

Biography

John Heard Jr. (March 7, 1946 – July 21, 2017) was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), Beaches (1988), and Deceived (1991). He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest-starring as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004).

Acting

1990

Home Alone

as Peter

1988

Big

as Paul

2005

Edison

as Tilman

2005

The Deal

as Professor Roseman

1985

After Hours

as Tom the Bartender

1990

Awakenings

as Dr. Kaufman

1992

Radio Flyer

as Daugherty

2005

Sweet Land

as Minister Sorrensen

2004

Mind the Gap

as Henry Richards

1997

One Eight Seven

as Dave Childress

1982

Cat People

as Oliver Yates

1981

Cutter's Way

as Alex Cutter

1989

The Package

as Col. Glen Whitacre

1988

Betrayed

as Michael Carnes

1984

C.H.U.D.

as George Cooper

1998

Snake Eyes

as Gilbert Powell

2004

White Chicks

as Warren Vandergeld

1991

Rambling Rose

as Older Willcox "Buddy" Hillyer

2000

Animal Factory

as James Decker

1993

The Pelican Brief

as Gavin Vereek

2000

Pollock

as Tony Smith

1988

1985

Heaven Help Us

as Brother Timothy

1991

Deceived

as Jack

2005

The Chumscrubber

as Officer Lou Bratley

2010

Formosa Betrayed

as Tom Braxton

1999

Desert Blue

as Prof. Lance Davidson

2006

Gamers

as Gordon's Dad

1988

Beaches

as John Pierce

2008

2010

The Truth

as Jonathan Davenport

1985

The Trip to Bountiful

as Ludie Watts

1996

My Fellow Americans

as Vice President Ted Matthews

1991

Mindwalk

as Thomas Harriman

2001

The Big Heist

as Richard Woods

2005

Locusts

as Peter Axelrod

1988

The Telephone

as Telephone Man

2013

1984

Best Revenge

as Charlie

2012

A Perfect Ending

as Mason Westridge

1997

Men

as George

1977

First Love

as David Bonner

2002

The Pilot's Wife

as Jack Lyons

2013

Runner Runner

as Harry Furst

2000

The Photographer

as Marcello

2013

Assault on Wall Street

as Jeremy Stancroft

1978

On the Yard

as Juleson

2002

Monday Night Mayhem

as Roone Arledge

2013

Sharknado

as George

1977

2007

Dead Lenny

as Dr. Robert Hooker

2013

Torn

as Detective Kalkowitz

2013

Snake & Mongoose

as Wally Parks

1983

2014

Animals

as Albert

2001

The Boys of Sunset Ridge

as John Burroughs

1997

Silent Cradle

as Dr. Britain

2014

Boys of Abu Ghraib

as Sam Farmer

1980

Heart Beat

as Jack Kerouac

1989

Virtuoso

as Michael Johnson

1997

2012

2014

Witches Blood

as Himself

2006

Steel City

as Carl Lee

1993

Me and Veronica

as Frankie

2013

The Insomniac

as Paul Epstein

2007

The Great Debaters

as Sheriff Dozier

2007

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

as Commander Barry Garner (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014

Warren

as Jack Cavanee

2014

2001

O

as Dean Brable

2014

The Nurse

as Frank

2016

So B. It

as Thurman

2015

The Murder Pact

as John LaSalle

1996

Before and After

as Wendell Bye

1993

In the Line of Fire

as Professor Riger

2008

Generation Gap

as Principal Winters

2000

The Witness

as Gregor

2011

Too Big to Fail

as Joe Gregory

1988

Necessity

as Charlie

1983

Legs

as Dan Foster

1984

Violated

as Skipper

2003

Word of Honor

as Dr. Steven Brandt

2016

2017

Last Rampage

as Blackwell

2008

P.J.

as Dr. Alan Shearson

2000

The Wednesday Woman

as Bill Davidson

1988

The Seventh Sign

as Reverend

2005

1978

Rush It

as Byron

2018

The Tale

as William P. Allens

2012

The Legends of Nethiah

as Nethiah's Father

2018

2015

Counting for Thunder

as Garrett Stalworth

2017

Searching for Fortune

as Michael Denton Sr.

2018

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time

as George (archive footage)

1994

Because Mommy Works

as Ted Forman

1999

The Pact

as Jerome Carver

2004

2006

The Guardian

as Capt. Frank Larson

2008

1992

Gladiator

as John Riley

2017

Pray for Rain

as Markus Gardner

2018

Buoyancy

as Frank

1992

Waterland

as Lewis Scott

1994

Spoils of War

as Andrew

2005

Tracks

as Prison Warden

2009

Little Hercules

as Coach Nimms

1992

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

as Dan Lawn - State of Alaska

2015

Boiling Pot

as Tim Davis

2001

Dying on the Edge

as John Fuller

Production

2017

2013

Sharknado

as In Memory Of

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