Johnny Messner
Biography
Johnny Messner is an American actor and producer who spent part of his childhood in Europe before returning to New York to pursue acting. He has appeared in television series including Guiding Light, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Cold Case. His first leading part in a mainstream movie was as Bill Johnson in Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004). Messner is known as an action hero for films like Tears of the Sun (2003), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), and Hostage. He later starred in genre pictures such as Running Scared (2006), Arena (2011), Kill 'em All (2012), and Silencer (2018). For Spike TV, he played the main role of Burke Wyatt, a former police officer, in Ring of Death. In December 2004, the horror website CampBlood named him that year's sexiest man in horror.
56years old
Turns 57 on April 11in 180 days
- Born Syracuse
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 36
- Career span
- 26 years1999 to 2025
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A first
Messner's first leading role in a mainstream movie came in 2004, when he played ex-military man Bill Johnson in Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
A change of course
Messner enrolled at San Diego State University for a sports broadcasting major, but he dropped out soon after. He then returned to New York to pursue acting.
Johnny Messner movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid2004 Adventure, Horroras Bill Johnson
IMDb rating 4.838K votes
Most often with
Timothy Woodward Jr. directed six of these films, Edward Drake three and Brian A. Miller two. Bruce Willis appears in eight of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Bruce Willis's page
Michael Paré's page
Corey Large's page
Danny Trejo's page
Lochlyn Munro's page
Vinnie Jones's page
All films by Timothy Woodward Jr.
Edward DrakeDirector, 3 films, 2021 to 2022
All films by Edward Drake
All films by Brian A. Miller
Also three films together4 more actors
- Jimmy Jean-LouisDetective Knight: Rogue (2022), Loaded (2008) and Tears of the Sun (2003)
- John LaughlinWEAPONiZED (2016), 4Got10 (2015) and Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault (1999)
- Erik AudeSilencer (2018), Decommissioned (2016) and Checkmate (2015)
- Sarah May SommersDetective Knight: Rogue (2022), American Siege (2021) and Cosmic Sin (2021)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Johnny Messner's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$202 million
8 of the 36 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 36 films: 8 worldwide figure; 3 us gross only; 8 never in cinemas; 16 figure not found; 1 too new to count.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 3US gross only
- 8Never in cinemas
- 16Figure not found
- 1Too new to count
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$87M42.9% of the total
- 2$71M35.2% of the total
- 3$26M13.0% of the total
- 4$9.5M4.7% of the total
- 5$8.1M4.0% of the total
- 6$350K0.2% of the total
- 7$95K0.0% of the total
- 8$39K0.0% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.