| Full Name | John Shea |
| Net Worth | $900,000 |
| Date Of Birth | April 14, 1949 |
| Died | February 8, 2015, Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
| Place Of Birth | North Conway, New Hampshire, USA |
| Height | 1.84 m |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Profession | Screenwriter, Film producer, Voice Actor, Film director |
| Work Position | Actors portraying |
| Education | Yale University, Yale School of Drama, Bates College |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Melissa MacLeod, Laura Pettibone |
| Children | Miranda Shea, Jake Shea, Caiden Shea |
| Parents | Elizabeth Mary Fuller, John Victor Shea, Jr. |
| Nicknames | John Shea, Shea, John |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0790291 |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie |
| Nominations | Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| Movies | Missing, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, An Invisible Sign, The Trouble with the Truth, Hussy, Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, The Impossible Spy, Windy City, The Insurgents, Stealing Home, Small Sacrifices, The Nativity, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Southie, A New Life, A C... |
| TV Shows | Mutant X, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, WIOU, Kennedy |
| Star Sign | Aries |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | At Bates College in Maine Shea ran track, played football captained the debating team, composed music, painted, and was co-editor of the literary magazine. He also acted, wrote plays, and directed them. |
| 2 | He has Irish and German ancestry. |
| 3 | John Shea auditioned for the role of "Indiana Jones" in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), alongside Karen Allen. |
| 4 | In order to prepare for his role as a concert violinist opposite Kelly McGillis in the Isreali film Ha-Holmim (1987), John spent six months rehearsing a musical piece in New York, London and Tel Aviv for a performance scene lasting one minute. |
| 5 | Became the first Hollywood actor to star in a Tamil-language film after being cast in the Indian thriller Achchamundu! Achchamundu! (2009). |
| 6 | Co-emceed the largest peace demonstration in American history, the June 12, 1982 anti-nuclear rally in Central Park, New York City. This later became the subject of the Robert Richter and Stanley Warnow documentary concert film In Our Hands (1984). |
| 7 | While starring in London's West End production of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart," John suddenly passed out on stage after being stricken by food poisoning. Literally carried off the stage, he was revived and managed to return to finish the performance. |
| 8 | For many years he played for the Hollywood All Stars, which was comprised of a group of actors who played charity baseball games around the country. He played three times at Yankee Stadium on teams that included Donald Trump, Michael Bolton, Al Pacino, Fisher Stevens, Al Franken, Paul Sorvino, Gregory Harrison and Meat Loaf. |
| 9 | Wore a blond wig, false teeth and spent three months studying Bobby Kennedy's pronounced accent in preparation for his role in the miniseries Kennedy (1983) opposite Martin Sheen as brother Jack. |
| 10 | Director Costa-Gavras spotted John playing a rock and roll producer in the stage play "American Days" at the Manhattan Theatre Club and immediately cast the actor in his critically-acclaimed film Missing (1982) without an audition. |
| 11 | While attending Bates College, he made his summer stock debut in Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" at the Nantucket Theatre Workshop. He is presently the Artistic Director of that same theatre. |
| 12 | Only three men ever screen tested for the role of Indiana Jones for Steven Spielberg, John, Tom Selleck and, of course, Indiana himself, Harrison Ford. |
| 13 | Appeared opposite Bianca Jagger in the play "Daniella Frank," then later appeared with her ex-husband, Mick Jagger, in the movie Freejack (1992). |
| 14 | In preparation for an explicit nude scene in the British film Hussy (1980), in which John was making his film debut, the newcomer and his co-star Helen Mirren shared a bottle of red wine. |
| 15 | Made his Carnegie Hall debut playing the Soldier in Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" in 2002. |
| 16 | During the first rehearsal of the TV movie Family Reunion (1981), the legendary Bette Davis asked John, who was playing her grandson, whether he smoked or not. A very nervous John lied and said he did. The star then responded, "Good, I can't stand men who don't smoke." The young actor proceeded to light up two cigarettes at once, a la Paul Henreid in the Davis film Now, Voyager (1942), and gave one to Ms. Davis. |
| 17 | Used Donald Trump and Richard III as character studies in preparing himself for the role of nemesis Lex Luthor in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993). During season two, he had to spend an average of three hours a day in the makeup chair to appear bald. |
| 18 | Preparing for his role as a sociopath in the French thriller Lune de miel (1985) [Honeymoon] opposite Nathalie Baye, John willingly entered himself into psychoanalysis in character in NYC's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He also learned the French script and shot his scenes both in French and English. |
| 19 | He was nominated for a 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 20 | Children: Jake (born 1987), Miranda (born 2000) and Caiden (born 2004). |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| A Worthwhile Life | 2017 | post-production | |
| Grey Lady | 2017 | | Chief Maguire |
| Bones | 2016 | TV Series | Dr. Marcus Eldridge |
| Anatomy of the Tide | 2015/I | | Davis Harriman |
| Agent X | 2015 | TV Series | Thomas Eckhart |
| Elementary | 2015 | TV Series | Bill Wellstone |
| The Picture of Dorian Grey | 2015 | Short | Lord Wotton |
| Madam Secretary | 2014 | TV Series | Ted Graham |
| Northern Borders | 2013 | | Doc Harrison |
| The Good Wife | 2012-2013 | TV Series | Jeffrey Agos |
| The March Sisters at Christmas | 2012 | TV Movie | Mr. Lawrence |
| A Deadly Obsession | 2012 | | Dr. Egan |
| Common Law | 2012 | TV Series | Judge Franklin Whitaker |
| Gossip Girl | 2007-2012 | TV Series | Harold Waldorf |
| The Trouble with the Truth | 2011 | | Robert |
| The Italian Key | 2011 | | Older Alexander |
| 51 | 2011 | | Sam Whitaker |
| Julius Caesar | 2010 | | Julius Caesar |
| An Invisible Sign | 2010 | | Dad |
| Achchamundu! Achchamundu! | 2009 | | Theodore Robertson |
| Eleventh Hour | 2009 | TV Series | Kristopher Merced |
| Framed | 2008/I | | David Murray |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | 2005-2008 | TV Series | Mr. Walker / Trevor Lipton |
| Law & Order | 2003-2008 | TV Series | Dr. Isaac Waxman / John David Myers |
| The Insurgents | 2006 | | Robert |
| A Broken Sole | 2006 | | Bob |
| Pitch | 2006 | Short | White Man |
| Medium | 2005 | TV Series | David Morrow |
| Godless. | 2005 | Short | Sam |
| Mutant X | 2001-2004 | TV Series | Adam Kane |
| The Empath | 2002 | | |
| Heartbreak Hospital | 2002 | | Milo Henderson / Dr. Jonathan |
| That's Life | 2001 | TV Series | Ashley Wilkinson |
| Catalina Trust | 1999 | | Deet Offerman |
| Sex and the City | 1999 | TV Series | Dominic |
| A Will of Their Own | 1998 | TV Mini-Series | Jonathan Abbott |
| The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | 1998 | | Hartley Cole |
| Getting Personal | 1998 | | Mr. DeMarco |
| Southie | 1998 | | Peter Binda |
| Nowhere to Go | 1998 | | George |
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | 1993-1997 | TV Series | Lex Luthor |
| The Apocalypse Watch | 1997 | TV Movie | Harry Latham / Lassiter |
| A Weekend in the Country | 1996 | TV Movie | Michael Kaye |
| Forgotten Sins | 1996 | TV Movie | Sheriff Matthew Bradshaw |
| Almost Perfect | 1995 | TV Series | Paul Sterling |
| See Jane Run | 1995 | TV Movie | Dr. Michael Ravenson |
| Leslie's Folly | 1994 | TV Short | Daniel |
| Justice in a Small Town | 1994 | TV Movie | Tommy Marchant |
| Backstreet Justice | 1994 | | Nick Donovan |
| Tales from the Crypt | 1993 | TV Series | Father John Sejac |
| Lincoln | 1992 | TV Movie | John Barnes (voice) |
| Ladykiller | 1992 | TV Movie | Jack Packard |
| Honey I Blew Up the Kid | 1992 | | Dr. Charles Hendrickson |
| Notorious | 1992 | TV Movie | Devlin |
| Freejack | 1992 | | Morgan |
| WIOU | 1990-1991 | TV Series | Hank Zaret |
| Small Sacrifices | 1989 | TV Movie | Frank Joziak |
| Do You Know the Muffin Man? | 1989 | TV Movie | Roger Dollison |
| Magic Moments | 1989 | TV Movie | Troy Gardner |
| Stealing Home | 1988 | | Sam Wyatt |
| A New Life | 1988 | | Doc |
| Gandahar | 1988 | | Sylvain (English version, voice) |
| Screen Two | 1987 | TV Series | Elie Cohen / John Carloff |
| Ha-Holmim | 1987 | | Marcus |
| The Hitchhiker | 1987 | TV Series | Jeremy |
| A Case of Deadly Force | 1986 | TV Movie | Michael O'Donnell |
| Lune de miel | 1985 | | Zachary 'Zack' Freestamp |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1985 | TV Series | Brian Whitman |
| Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil | 1985 | TV Movie | Karl Hoffmann |
| The Dining Room | 1984 | TV Movie | Client / Howard / Psychiatrist / ... |
| Windy City | 1984 | | Danny |
| Kennedy | 1983 | TV Mini-Series | Robert F. Kennedy |
| CBS Library | 1982 | TV Series | Hondo Bill (segment: The Chaparral Prince) |
| Missing | 1982 | | Charles Horman |
| Family Reunion | 1981 | TV Movie | James Cookman |
| Hussy | 1980 | | Emory Cole |
| The Last Convertible | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Terry Garrigan |
| The Nativity | 1978 | TV Movie | Joseph |
| The Rock Rainbow | 1978 | TV Movie | Speed |
| Man from Atlantis | 1977 | TV Series | Romeo |
| Barnaby Jones | 1977 | TV Series | Max Tate |
| Eight Is Enough | 1977 | TV Series | Jonathan Moraacci |
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$900,000
