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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....

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Filmography

Superhero Movie - ( Lunatic Editor / 2008 / Released / )
Nanking - ( George Fitch / 2007 / Released / )
Zodiac - ( Templeton Peck / 2007 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures International )
Living 'til the End - ( Mr. Hines / 2005 / Released / )
A Day Without a Mexican - ( State Senator Abercrombie / 2004 / Released / )
Held for Ransom - ( Mr. Kirtland / 2001 / Released / )
Blood Simple - ( Ray / 2000 / Released / Canal Plus (Canal+) )
Requiem for A Dream - ( Party Animal / 2000 / Released / )
Painted Hero - ( Sheriff Gil Acuff / 1995 / Released / )
A Passion to Kill - ( Jerry Chamberlain / 1994 / Released / )
Playmaker - ( Eddie / 1994 / Released / )
Curly Sue - ( Walker McCormick / 1991 / Released / )
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead - ( Gus Brandon / 1991 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Men At Work - ( Maxwell Potterdam III / 1990 / Released / Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) )
Born on the Fourth of July - ( Marine Major / 1989 / Released / )
The Fly II - ( Stathis Borans / 1989 / Released / )
The Fly - ( Stathis Borans / 1986 / Released / )
Thief of Hearts - ( Ray Davis / 1984 / Released / )
Tattoo - ( Buddy / 1981 / Released / )

TV Credits
Eleventh Hour ( 2008 / Released ): Actor
Big Shots ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Mad Men ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Day Break ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
What if it's Him ( 2008 )
TV Episode Cast

TV Episode Cast

TV Episode Cast

TV Episode Cast

TV Episode Cast

Shark ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Close to Home ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Grey's Anatomy ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
TV Episode Michael

TV Episode Michael

How I Met Your Mother ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Prison Break ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Wanted (TNT) ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Medium ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
Cold Case ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Hunger Point ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Joan of Arcadia ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
TV Episode DA Gabe Fellows

St. Joan ( 2003 )
TV Episode DA Gabe Fellows

TV Episode DA Gabe Fellows

Bringeth It On ( 2003 )
TV Episode DA Gabe Fellows

Just Say No ( 2003 )
TV Episode DA Gabe Fellows

Las Vegas ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
CSI: Miami ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
Without A Trace ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
According to Jim ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
Zenon: The Zequel ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
The West Wing ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
Tomorrow ( 2006 )
TV Episode Cast

Requiem ( 2006 )
TV Episode Cast

Maggie ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
The King of Queens ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
Hartford Wailer ( 2006 )
TV Episode Mr. Dugan

Name Dropper ( 2004 )
TV Episode Mr. Dugan

A Friend's Betrayal ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
The Late Shift ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
Awake to Danger ( 1995 / Released ): Actor
JAG ( 1995 / Released ): Actor
Ned and Stacey ( 1995 / Released ): Actor
Betrayal of Trust ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
The Five Mrs. Buchanans ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
Untamed Love ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
Phenom ( 1993 / Released ): Actor
Crossroads ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
In My Daughter's Name ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Majority Rule ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Burnout ( 1988 / Released ): Actor
Mariah ( 1987 / Released ): Actor
I Want to Go Home ( 1985 / Released ): Actor
MacGruder and Loud ( 1985 / Released ): Actor
Concrete Beat ( 1984 / Released ): Actor
Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs ( 1984 / Released ): Actor
Muggable Mary: Street Cop ( 1982 / Released ): Actor
Not in Front of the Children ( 1982 / Released ): Actor
Kent State ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
A Woman Called Moses ( 1978 / Released ): Actor
Loose Change ( 1978 / Released ): Actor
Rafferty ( 1977 / Released ): Actor
Three's Company ( 1977 / Released ): Actor
Killer Bees ( 1974 / Released ): Actor
Another World ( 1964 / Released ): Actor
Murder, She Wrote ( Released ): Actor
Murphy Brown ( Released ): Actor
Providence ( Released ): Actor
The Guardian ( Released ): Actor

Full Biography (Back to top)


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".

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). He proved effective as the doomed lover of a married woman who woefully misinterprets his increasingly complex circumstances. A bearded Getz also registered 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).


Profession(s):
Actor, producer, director, songwriter, winery worker
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
daughter:Kate Getz (born c. 1978)
wife:Grace McKeaney (met Getz while he was acting in a play she had written; wrote for ABC sitcom "Roseanne")

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Education
University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington English and writing
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa
American Conservatory Theatre San Francisco, California
Milestones (Back to top)

1998 Co-starred in the Lifetime sitcom "Maggie"
1988 Appeared on Broadway in "M. Butterfly"
1987 Cast in a leading role, deputy superintendent Ned Sheffield, on "Mariah", a short-lived ABC prison drama series
1985 Co-starred as Detective Malcolm MacGruder on the romantic police drama, "MacGruder & Loud"
1984 First starring role in a film, Joel Coen's "Blood Simple"
1984 Cast as a regular on "Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs", a short-lived journalistic sitcom
1977 Played another uncredited bit part in "The Sentinel", a slick horror outing
1977 Cast as a regular on "Rafferty", a short-lived CBS medical drama starring Patrick MacGoohan
1975 Feature debut, "The Happy Hooker" (uncredited bit part)
1974 Professional acting and TV-movie debut, "Killer Bees", a thriller starring Gloria Swanson, directed by Curtis Harrington, and filmed in Napa Valley
1969 Dropped out of the University of Iowa
Co-founded the Center for New Performing Arts as a student at the University of Iowa
Successfully auditioned for the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco; attended on scholarship for one year
Worked in a Napa Valley winery
Worked with the Napa Valley Theater Company producing, directing, acting and writing music for their original productions
Moved to NYC
Became active on the NY stage with appearances at Lincoln Center, La Mama and the Children's Theater
Played Neil Johnson, a recurring role for 18 months on "Another World", a long-running daytime soap
Played the recurring role of Lee Tripper on the hit sitcom, "Three's Company"

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