Biography
John Heard Jr. (March 7, 1946 – July 21, 2017) was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), Beaches (1988), and Deceived (1991). He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest-starring as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Imprisoned
2019
Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him...

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
2018
as George (archive footage)
Our hero Fin has battled sharks all over the globe, but in this last installment he will tackle the final shark-tier - time travel.

Living Among Us
2018
as Andrew
Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live...

Buoyancy
2018
as Frank
Hoping to make amends with his girlfriend and turn his life around, Jake suddenly finds himself in a dangerous situation. Frank, an aging bail-bondsma...

The Tale
2018
as William P. Allens
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to sur...

Last Rampage
2017
as Blackwell
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
2017
In Memory Of
Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.

Pray for Rain
2017
as Markus Gardner
When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming comm...

Searching for Fortune
2017
as Michael Denton Sr.
With the news of his brothers death, Michael's world is turned upside down as he begins a journey of self-assessment, self-reflection, and self-discov...

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
2016
as Sheriff Parsons
Spurred by a gun incident at a school, the women of one Texas town lead a movement to get rid of guns by withholding sex from their husbands.

So B. It
2016
as Thurman
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.

After the Reality
2016
as Bob
The life of a contestant on a 'Bachelorette' style reality show is thrown into turmoil when the sudden death of his father forces him to quit the seri...

Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
2016
as JP Monroe
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to ...

Counting for Thunder
2015
as Garrett Stalworth
Counting for Thunder is inspired by the three years when Phillip Irwin Cooper, unlucky in work, money and love, went home to the Gulf Coast of Alabama...

The Murder Pact
2015
as John LaSalle
Four friends at a prestigious university whose promising futures are jeopardized when they become connected to the accidental death of a classmate. Wh...

Boiling Pot
2015
as Tim Davis
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow betwee...

The Nurse
2014
as Frank
A young woman takes in her estranged father after he suffers a stroke, but his home-care nurse's attentive dedication may be masking a dark and danger...

Animals
2014
as Albert
ANIMALS tells the story of Jude and Bobbie: a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy of their imaginations. Though the...
Witches Blood
2014
as Himself
Mary Horror is back! She has her spell book and is ready to wreck havoc on the small town of Bernardsville. She needs the Witches blood of the four wi...

Sister
2014
When unstable Connie is tragically widowed, she finds it impossible to care for her delinquent adolescent daughter, Niki, forcing her son, Bill, to t...

Boys of Abu Ghraib
2014
as Sam Farmer
An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Ira...

Warren
2014
as Jack Cavanee
After giving up on making it in the Chicago improv scene, a young comedian fatefully reconnects with the former love of his life one fall night while ...

The Insomniac
2013
as Paul Epstein
John Figg has a great career and a gorgeous fiancée. When he inherits a nice house in a quiet neighborhood, he finally starts to feel like his life is...

Torn
2013
as Detective Kalkowitz
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.

Runner Runner
2013
as Harry Furst
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore e...

Snake & Mongoose
2013
as Wally Parks
The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen, combined with corporate giants t...

Sharknado
2013
as George
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer...

Sharknado
2013
In Memory Of
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer...

Assault on Wall Street
2013
as Jeremy Stancroft
Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes ...

Would You Rather
2013
as Conway
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.

Whisper Me a Lullaby
2013
Though their upbringing was less than picturesque, twenty-something siblings Charlie (Christina Vinsick) and Scott (Peter Mychalcewycz), share a profo...

A Perfect Ending
2012
as Mason Westridge
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecc...
Stealing Roses
2012
as Walter
Terrified at the prospect of losing his seriously ill wife, a man plans a bank robbery to pay for her medical treatments with help from his eccentric ...

The Legends of Nethiah
2012
as Nethiah's Father
A young boy whose parents are going through a bitter divorce, is given hope and courage through the powerful stories embellished by his grandfather. T...

Too Big to Fail
2011
as Joe Gregory
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...

The Truth
2010
as Jonathan Davenport
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated...

Formosa Betrayed
2010
as Tom Braxton
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web o...

Little Hercules
2009
as Coach Nimms
Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.

P.J.
2008
as Dr. Alan Shearson
Traumatized and suffering from amnesia after witnessing a terrible accident, a man who calls himself P.J. is admitted to a hospital, where psychiatris...

Generation Gap
2008
as Principal Winters
When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.

The Lucky Ones
2008
as Bob
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has mov...

Justice League: The New Frontier
2008
as Ace Morgan (voice)
The human race is threatened by a powerful creature, and only the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter a...

The Great Debaters
2007
as Sheriff Dozier
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American ...

Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007
as Commander Barry Garner (archive footage) (uncredited)
The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is made commander. The story i...

Dead Lenny
2007
as Dr. Robert Hooker
A local New York City mobster named Tony Thick is expecting $5 million in cash to be delivered by Lenny Long from Los Angeles. Soon enough he realizes...

Brothers Three: An American Gothic
2007
as Father
Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons t...

The Guardian
2006
as Capt. Frank Larson
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him ...

Gamers
2006
as Gordon's Dad
Gamers is a comedy about the lives of four slacker friends (and one obsessive interloper) living at home, -"with my parents... it's just temporary... ...

Steel City
2006
as Carl Lee
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county...

Sweet Land
2005
as Minister Sorrensen
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

Tracks
2005
as Prison Warden
Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw th...

Edison
2005
as Tilman
In the troubled city of Edison, a young journalist, his jaded editor, and an honest investigator from the district attorney's office join forces to ga...

The Deal
2005
as Professor Roseman
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

The Chumscrubber
2005
as Officer Lou Bratley
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his fr...

Locusts
2005
as Peter Axelrod
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered ...

Freak Weather
2005
as David
In this harrowing character study, Jacqueline McKenzie portrays Penny, a young woman lost in a dangerous abusive relationship. One day, she sets out w...

My Tiny Universe
2004
as Bobby
Having failed to make it as an actor, a suicidal man torments a top film producer while holding him captive.

White Chicks
2004
as Warren Vandergeld
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socia...

Mind the Gap
2004
as Henry Richards
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.

Word of Honor
2003
as Dr. Steven Brandt
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 1...

The Pilot's Wife
2002
as Jack Lyons
Kathryn is distraught at the news of her husband's death delivered by a stranger from the airline for whom he was a pilot. She starts however to uncov...

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Roone Arledge
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a ma...

O
2001
as Dean Brable
Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoratio...

Dying on the Edge
2001
as John Fuller
An ex cop turned insurance investigator tries to hold his life together as he investigates the death of a music producer who may have been murdered.

The Big Heist
2001
as Richard Woods
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this ...

The Boys of Sunset Ridge
2001
as John Burroughs
Four young friends sneak onto an exclusive country club for 18 holes of golf, and begin a tradition that will strengthen their bonds and weather the t...

Animal Factory
2000
as James Decker
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug deale...

Pollock
2000
as Tony Smith
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...

The Wednesday Woman
2000
as Bill Davidson
Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charismatic ex-con. As they begin to bond over their traum...

The Photographer
2000
as Marcello
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night befo...

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000
as Larry Mason
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigatio...

The Witness
2000
as Gregor
When a criminal threatens husband and wife, their family and their business, their son is the prime target. With the help of one of their employees, t...

Desert Blue
1999
as Prof. Lance Davidson
An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, ...

The Pact
1999
as Jerome Carver
After witnessing the killing of his parents, a teenage boy is put in a witness relocation program and sent to a boarding school in Canada to start a n...

Snake Eyes
1998
as Gilbert Powell
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence...

Men
1997
as George
A single young woman moves to Los Angeles, gets a job as a chef and has casual affairs.

Executive Power
1997
as Walker
While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an...

One Eight Seven
1997
as Dave Childress
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teache...

Silent Cradle
1997
as Dr. Britain
A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been de...

My Fellow Americans
1996
as Vice President Ted Matthews
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...

Before and After
1996
as Wendell Bye
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Because Mommy Works
1994
as Ted Forman
Since her divorce nurse Abbey lives alone with her 6 years old son Willie. Her ex-husband Ted may have Willie every second weekend. But when Ted marri...

Spoils of War
1994
as Andrew
In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.

Me and Veronica
1993
as Frankie
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.

The Pelican Brief
1993
as Gavin Vereek
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

In the Line of Fire
1993
as Professor Riger
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...

There Was a Little Boy
1993
as Gregg
Julie and Gregg are about to become parents again, but they feel conflicted since their first child was kidnapped and never seen again. But the couple...

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992
as Peter
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems f...

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
1992
as Dan Lawn - State of Alaska
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

Waterland
1992
as Lewis Scott
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life i...

Gladiator
1992
as John Riley
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed an...

Radio Flyer
1992
as Daugherty
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. W...

Mindwalk
1991
as Thomas Harriman
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist who abandoned a lucrative career after discovering...

Deceived
1991
as Jack
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a c...

Rambling Rose
1991
as Older Willcox "Buddy" Hillyer
Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and per...

The End of Innocence
1990
as Dean
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitte...

Awakenings
1990
as Dr. Kaufman
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patie...

Home Alone
1990
as Peter
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. Wh...

Virtuoso
1989
as Michael Johnson
In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later he suffers the onset of...

The Package
1989
as Col. Glen Whitacre
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gal...

Beaches
1988
as John Pierce
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Betrayed
1988
as Michael Carnes
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Big
1988
as Paul
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grow...

Necessity
1988
as Charlie
A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really w...

The Seventh Sign
1988
as Reverend
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse ...

The Milagro Beanfield War
1988
as Charlie Bloom
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real ...

The Telephone
1988
as Telephone Man
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve a...

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Johnny Boy (voice)
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive f...

The Trip to Bountiful
1985
as Ludie Watts
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked so...

After Hours
1985
as Tom the Bartender
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Brother Timothy
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class ...

Best Revenge
1984
as Charlie
When his best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom by a drug kingpin, an American hustler embarks on a suicide mission to smuggle four million doll...

Too Scared to Scream
1984
as Sid
A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.

C.H.U.D.
1984
as George Cooper
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a ...

Violated
1984
as Skipper
An actress in New York City goes against a group of gangsters who are abusing her "party girl" friends.

Legs
1983
as Dan Foster
Three ambitious young women risk it all when they compete for a chance to dance with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.

Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
as Clifford Odets
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

Cat People
1982
as Oliver Yates
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is draw...

Cutter's Way
1981
as Alex Cutter
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Heart Beat
1980
as Jack Kerouac
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.

Chilly Scenes of Winter
1979
as Charles
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker w...

On the Yard
1978
as Juleson
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's po...

Rush It
1978
as Byron
A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.

First Love
1977
as David Bonner
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.

Between the Lines
1977
as Harry
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of...

Valley Forge
1975
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.