
John Getz
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.
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Acting (55 movies)

Men at Work
1990

Zodiac
2007

The Fly II
1989

The Late Shift
1996

Blood Simple
1985

Curly Sue
1991

Muggable Mary: Street Cop
1982

The Fly
1986

Zenon: The Zequel
2001

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991

Hard Four
2007

Nanking
2007

Thief of Hearts
1984

Tattoo
1981

The Sentinel
1977

Living 'til the End
2005

Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
2013

Elevator
2013

Painted Hero
1997

Desperate Acts of Magic
2013

Held for Ransom
2000

Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
2005

A Line in the Sand
2008

A Passion to Kill
1994

In My Daughter's Name
1992

Awake to Danger
1995

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
1981

Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993

Hunger Point
2003

Born on the Fourth of July
1989

Untamed Love
1994

Kent State
1981

The Social Network
2010

The Happy Hooker
1975

Certain Women
2016

Trumbo
2015

The Dead Don't Hurt
2024

Fortunes of War
1994

Concrete Beat
1984

The Perfect Guy
2015

A Day Without a Mexican
2004

A Friend's Betrayal
1996

Playmaker
1994

Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
2005

How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
2011

Killer Bees
1974

Majority Rule
1992

Brampton's Own
2018

Body at Brighton Rock
2019

Police Story: Burnout
1988

Superhero Movie
2008

Mojave Moon
1996

Jobs
2013

Some Girl
1998

Betrayal of Trust
1994
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