John Harkins

John Harkins was an American actor who worked in theater, film, and television, growing up in St. Louis and studying at the University of Iowa before beginning his professional career on Broadway in the mid-1950s. A life member of The Actors Studio, he appeared in stage productions including Mother Courage and Her Children, made his television debut in 1965 on The Trials of O'Brien, and had his film debut a year later in The Three Sisters. He worked steadily on television, with roles on Dark Shadows from 1967 to 1970, a recurring part on the sitcom Doc, and an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the 1980s he played a cynical lawyer in Absence of Malice (1981), an ill-fated real estate agent in Amityville 3-D (1983), and Whittaker Chambers in the mini-series Concealed Enemies, later appearing in Slaves of New York (1989) and the 1996 HBO film Crime of the Century. He died in 1999.