John Getz

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John Getz

Born	October 15, 1946 Davenport, Iowa

John Getz (born October 15, 1946) is a stage-trained American actor. He is often cast as upstanding if somewhat green characters on TV, and as varying degrees of sleazeballs in films. ^{[original research?]}

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
2 Footnotes
3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Getz, one of four children, was born in Davenport, Iowa and raised in the Mississippi River Valley.^[1] He 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.

[edit] Career

The distinctive locale led to Getz' 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.

Getz entered features with a bit part in The Happy Hooker (1975) and followed up with several other small roles before starring in the Coen Brother's splendid crime drama Blood Simple (1984), in which he proved effective as the doomed lover of a married woman who woefully misinterprets his increasingly complex circumstances.

A bearded Getz also appeared in The Fly (1986) as Stathis Borans, a somewhat less than likeable science magazine editor who pays a heavy price for his curiosity. He reprised the role of a traumatized survivor in The Fly II (1989). He has also played a Marine major in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and unpleasant boyfriends of professional women in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Curly Sue (both 1991).

Getz has appeared in many television series, most recently Day Break; he also had a role in the David Fincher film Zodiac.

He has a daughter named Hannah from his marriage to playwrite Grace Mckeaney.