Biography
​John Getz is a stage-trained 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 lo...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Dead Don't Hurt
2024
as Reverend Simpson
In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a li...

Body at Brighton Rock
2019
as Sheriff
When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until autho...

Brampton's Own
2018
as Bart
A struggling minor league baseball player retires and woefully returns to his small hometown, carefully dodging old wounds until confronted with the o...

Certain Women
2016
as Sheriff Rowles
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled ...

Trumbo
2015
as Sam Wood
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

The Perfect Guy
2015
as Renkin
With a fulfilling career and a loving relationship, lobbyist Leah Vaughn seems to have it all. Things come crashing down when Dave, her long-term boyf...

Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
2013
as Bernard Moss
Chris Monsanto, disgraced Marshal turned fugitive from justice, goes on a journey of both heart and mind to clear his name and uncover the truth.

Jobs
2013
as Paul Jobs
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

Desperate Acts of Magic
2013
as Don Tarzia
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This fi...

Elevator
2013
as Henry Barton
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no e...

How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
2011
as Self / Sy
This feature-length documentary about the making of "The Social Network" goes back and forth from the elements of storytelling and long rehearsals wit...

The Social Network
2010
as Sy
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network k...

A Line in the Sand
2008
as Captain McClenon
A human story unfolds when detectives aggravated by a major bust gone wrong are forced to deal with a tormented man thrown into the cage after urinati...

Superhero Movie
2008
as Lunatic Editor
Rick Riker is a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the vill...

Hard Four
2007
as Blazedell Woodruff
When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal S...

Zodiac
2007
as Templeton Peck
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

Nanking
2007
as George Fitch
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens o...

Living 'til the End
2005
as Mr. Hines
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slo...

Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
2005
as Self
Feature length documentary on the making of David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder
2005
as Dan
Murder is something to sing about when Mystery Woman Samantha Kinsey-an expert in pulp fiction, and increasingly proficient when it comes to real-life...

A Day Without a Mexican
2004
as Senator Abercombie
When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy...

Hunger Point
2003
as David Hunter
A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincide...

Zenon: The Zequel
2001
as General Hammond
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince ...

Held for Ransom
2000
as Mr. Kirkland
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florid...

Some Girl
1998
as Claire's Father
Inexperienced in love and living in Los Angeles, aspiring actress Claire longs to find that special someone. Unfortunately, she couldn't pick a more u...

Painted Hero
1997
as Sheriff Acuff
Virgil Kidder hasn't been in Waco for quite a spell, but now that he's back in town clowning in the rodeo, his troubles are catching up with him quick...

Mojave Moon
1996
as Police Officer
Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman (Ellie) who is looking for a ride from the city out into ...

A Friend's Betrayal
1996
as Dennis Hewitt
Old feelings of betrayal resurface, renewing a bitter rift between two girlfriends when one learns that the other seduced her son

The Late Shift
1996
as Brandon Tartikoff
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."

Awake to Danger
1995
as Steve Murdock
Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the de...

Fortunes of War
1994
as Franklin Hewitt
When Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler sends his friend Peter Kernan and his wife Johanna to deliver medicine to the deep jungles of Cambodia, but Peter...

A Passion to Kill
1994
as Jerry
A psychiatrist gets involved with his best friend's wife who may be a murderer.

Untamed Love
1994
as Dan
A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed ...

Playmaker
1994
as Eddie
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.

Betrayal of Trust
1994
as Curt
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her o...

Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993
as Doug Hulin
Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.

Majority Rule
1992
as Paul Taylor
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of p...

In My Daughter's Name
1992
as Michael Elias
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.

Curly Sue
1991
as Walker McCormick
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. ...

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
as Gus
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings...

Men at Work
1990
as Maxwell Potterdam III
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find th...

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Marine Major - Vietnam
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...

The Fly II
1989
as Stathis Borans
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chr...

Police Story: Burnout
1988
as Sgt. Jack Leland
A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.

The Fly
1986
as Stathis Borans
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a com...
I Want To Go Home
1985
as Thomas Sanders
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom has kidnapped them from their dad.

Thief of Hearts
1984
as Ray Davis
A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into he...

Concrete Beat
1984
as Mickey Thompson
A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.

Blood Simple
1984
as Ray
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings,...
Not in Front of the Children
1982
as Dr. Paul Adams
Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this...

Muggable Mary: Street Cop
1982
as Dan Waters
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

Tattoo
1981
as Buddy
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot...

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
1981
as Lester Dederow
A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a ...

Kent State
1981
as Prof. Ted Arnold
Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between Nat...

Loose Change
1978
as John Campbell
Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.

The Sentinel
1977
as Film Crew (uncredited)
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a B...

The Happy Hooker
1975
as Trout Fisherman
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts li...

Killer Bees
1974
as Attendant
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.