1. John William Getz was born on October 15,1946 and is an American character actor.
14 Facts About John Getz
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John Getz began acting while attending the University of Iowa, where he helped found the Center for New Performing Arts.
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John Getz dropped out of college to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
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John Getz appeared in The Happy Hooker and followed up with several other roles before starring in the Coen Brothers' neo-noir thriller Blood Simple.
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John Getz played the doomed lover of a married woman who woefully misinterprets his increasingly complex circumstances.
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John Getz appeared in two different shows with the name "Maggie" in the title: 1984's Maggie Briggs, where he appeared as newspaper editor Geoff Bennett, and 1998's Maggie as the title character's husband, Dr Arthur Day.
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John Getz appeared in The Fly and The Fly II as Stathis Borans, a science magazine editor who pays a heavy price for his curiosity.
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In 1991, John Getz appeared as the unpleasant boyfriend of professional women in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Curly Sue.
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In 1990, John Getz appeared as a crime boss in the Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez spoof Men at Work.
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John Getz had a role in Fincher's film The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook.
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John Getz 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.
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John Getz appeared in Trumbo as director Sam Wood.
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John Getz 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, Bosch, and the Netflix series A Man on the Inside.
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John Getz has a daughter, Hannah, from his marriage to playwright Grace McKeaney.