John Getz

John Getz is an American character actor who began on the stage, performing with the American Conservatory Theater and helping to found a Napa Valley theater company before moving to New York. Born in Davenport, Iowa, and raised in Moline, Illinois, he appeared in The Happy Hooker (1975) and rose to wider film attention as the doomed lover in the Coen brothers' Blood Simple (1984). He played science magazine editor Stathis Borans in The Fly (1986) and The Fly II (1989), and had roles in Men at Work (1990), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), and Curly Sue (1991). His later film work includes Zodiac (2007), The Social Network (2010), and Trumbo (2015), in which he portrayed director Sam Wood. On television he appeared in MacGruder and Loud and Maggie, with many guest roles and recurring parts in Homeland, Timeless, Bosch, and A Man on the Inside.