John Getz

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-10-15 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Davenport, Iowa, U.S.

John Getz

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 sev...

Acting

1990

Men at Work

as Maxwell Potterdam III

2007

Zodiac

as Templeton Peck

1989

The Fly II

as Stathis Borans

1996

The Late Shift

as Brandon Tartikoff

1984

1991

Curly Sue

as Walker McCormick

1982

1986

The Fly

as Stathis Borans

2001

Zenon: The Zequel

as General Hammond

2007

Hard Four

as Blazedell Woodruff

2007

Nanking

as George Fitch

1984

Thief of Hearts

as Ray Davis

1981

Tattoo

as Buddy

1977

The Sentinel

as Film Crew (uncredited)

2005

2013

2013

Elevator

as Henry Barton

1997

Painted Hero

as Sheriff Acuff

2013

2000

Held for Ransom

as Mr. Kirkland

2008

A Line in the Sand

as Captain McClenon

1994

1985

I Want To Go Home

as Thomas Sanders

1992

In My Daughter's Name

as Michael Elias

1995

Awake to Danger

as Steve Murdock

1978

Loose Change

as John Campbell

1981

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

as Lester Dederow

2003

Hunger Point

as David Hunter

1989

Born on the Fourth of July

as Marine Major - Vietnam

1994

1981

Kent State

as Prof. Ted Arnold

1975

The Happy Hooker

as Trout Fisherman

2016

Certain Women

as Sheriff Rowles

2015

Trumbo

as Sam Wood

2024

The Dead Don't Hurt

as Reverend Simpson

1994

Fortunes of War

as Franklin Hewitt

1984

Concrete Beat

as Mickey Thompson

2015

2004

A Day Without a Mexican

as Senator Abercombie

1996

A Friend's Betrayal

as Dennis Hewitt

1994

Playmaker

as Eddie

1974

Killer Bees

as Attendant

1992

Majority Rule

as Paul Taylor

2018

1982

2019

1988

Police Story: Burnout

as Sgt. Jack Leland

2008

Superhero Movie

as Lunatic Editor

1996

Mojave Moon

as Police Officer

2013

Jobs

as Paul Jobs

1998

Some Girl

as Claire's Father

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