Johnny Berchtold

Johnny Berchtold is an American actor who grew up in the Mays Landing area of Hamilton Township, New Jersey. He began working in film and television in the mid-2010s, and in 2017 he played Ted Kaczynski as a teenager for the Discovery Channel series Manhunt: Unabomber. His small-screen credits later included The Wilds, Gaslit and Tiny Beautiful Things. In 2022 he acted off-Broadway in Camp Siegfried, a Bess Wohl play staged at Second Stage Theater. His first major movie lead came in the Netflix drama Dog Gone (2023), as Fielding Marshall alongside Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Also in 2023 he played Randy Bradley in the Blumhouse psychological thriller The Passenger (2023), opposite Kyle Gallner. In 2025 he was a series regular on Prime Video's Reacher, appeared as Caleb Brandywine in the Western Broke (2025), and took the part of Paul Murdaugh in Hulu's eight-episode limited drama Murdaugh: Death in the Family.