John Getz
Highest Rated: 96% Nanking (2007)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Oct 15, 1946
Birthplace: Davenport, Iowa, USA
Stage-trained character lead often cast as upstanding if somewhat green characters on TV, and as varying degrees of sleazeballs in films, Getz began acting while attending the University of Iowa. During that period, he helped found the Center for New Performing Arts. Getz dropped out of school and attended San Francisco's respected American Conservatory Theater. While working in a winery, he became involved with the Napa Valley Theater Company. Coincidentally, this distinctive locale led to the Iowa native's professional acting debut playing an attendant in "Killer Bees" (ABC, 1974), a made-for-TV thriller starring Gloria Swanson and lensed in Napa Valley. Getz next moved to NYC where he became active in local theater while doing an 18-month stint in a recurring role on a daytime soap "Another World."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67% | 20% | Body at Brighton Rock | Sheriff (Character) | $4.7K | 2019 |
| 40% | 60% | Brampton's Own | Bart (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 92% | 52% | Certain Women | George Rowles (Character) | $1.0M | 2016 |
| 74% | 79% | Trumbo | Sam Wood (Character) | $7.9M | 2015 |
| 18% | 51% | The Perfect Guy | Renkin (Character) | $57.0M | 2015 |
| 60% | 70% | Desperate Acts of Magic | Don Tarzia (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 28% | 40% | Jobs | Paul Jobs (Character) | $16.1M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Elevator | Henry Barton (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 96% | 87% | The Social Network | Sy (Character) | $96.9M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | A Line in the Sand | Captain McClenon (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hard Four | Blazedell Woodruff (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 96% | 88% | Nanking | George Fitch (Character) | $160.1K | 2007 |
| 90% | 77% | Zodiac | Templeton Peck (Character) | $33.0M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Living 'til the End | Mr. Hines (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder | Dan (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 27% | 39% | A Day Without a Mexican | Senator Abercombie (Character) | $4.2M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Hunger Point | David Hunter (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | Held for Ransom | Mr. Kirkland (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | The Late Shift | Brandon Tartikoff (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | A Friend's Betrayal | Dennis Hewitt (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Painted Hero | Sheriff Acuff (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Awake to Danger | Steve Murdock (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Untamed Love | Dan (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Playmaker | Eddie (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | A Passion to Kill | Jerry (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story | Doug Hulin (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Majority Rule | Paul (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 13% | 50% | Curly Sue | Walker McCormick (Character) | $29.7M | 1991 |
| 35% | 57% | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Gus (Character) | $23.0M | 1991 |
| 32% | 44% | Men at Work | Maxwell Potterdam III (Character) | $14.1M | 1990 |
| 85% | 76% | Born on the Fourth of July | Marine Major - Vietnam (Character) | $68.8M | 1989 |
| 29% | 24% | The Fly II | Stathis (Character) | $19.6M | 1989 |
| 93% | 83% | The Fly | Stathis Borans (Character) | $34.9M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MacGruder and Loud | Malcom MacGruder (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 0% | 49% | Thief of Hearts | Ray Davis (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 93% | 88% | Blood Simple | Ray (Character) | $1.7M | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Concrete Beat | Unknown (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Not in Front of the Children | Dr. Paul Adams (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Muggable Mary: Street Cop | Dan Waters (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kent State | Professor Ted Arnold (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rivkin: Bounty Hunter | Unknown (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | A Woman Called Moses | Stewart (Character) | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96% | 89% | The Last of Us | Edelstein (Guest Star) | 2023 |
| 98% | 77% | Doom Patrol | Paul Trainor (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| 91% | 77% | Timeless | Ben Cahill (Guest Star) | 2016-2018 |
| 59% | 70% | Ghosted | Director Romslo (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 91% | 76% | Transparent | Donald (Guest Star) | 2016-2017 |
| 98% | 96% | Better Call Saul | Chairman (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 85% | 86% | Homeland | Joe Crocker (Guest Star) | 2014-2015 2017 |
| 90% | 85% | Grace and Frankie | John (Guest Star) | 2016-2017 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | NCIS: New Orleans | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 25% | 48% | Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 90% | 91% | Halt and Catch Fire | Joe MacMillan, Sr. (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 56% | 35% | Bad Teacher | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 2014 |
| 82% | 87% | Castle | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 90% | 82% | Bones | Steven Frank (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 85% | 69% | Nikita | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | NCIS: Los Angeles | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 78% | 89% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Admiral Vincent Albers (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 68% | 66% | Touch | Henry Williams (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 93% | 72% | Scandal | Patrick Keating (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Walter Kane (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Ghost Whisperer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Private Practice | Mr. Kent (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 52% | No Score Yet | Trust Me | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 61% | 77% | Prison Break | Dr. Roger Knowlton (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 35% | 100% | Eleventh Hour | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 84% | 75% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 94% | 96% | Mad Men | Dr. Eric Stone (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 43% | 100% | Swingtown | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 84% | 84% | How I Met Your Mother | Bob Hewitt (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 50% | 100% | Day Break | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 2008 |
| 6% | No Score Yet | Big Shots | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| 52% | 60% | Shark | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The King of Queens | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 2006 |
| 65% | No Score Yet | Close to Home | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Without a Trace | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 96% | 57% | Joan of Arcadia | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | According to Jim | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | The Guardian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maggie | Dr. Arthur Day (Character) | 1998-1999 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995-1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MacGruder and Loud | Malcom MacGruder (Character) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | Three's Company | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Associates | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Woman Called Moses | Stewart (Character) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Barney Miller | William McKuen (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| 100% | 79% | Wonder Woman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |