John C. McGinley
John C. McGinley is an American actor, writer, and producer. He was born on August 3, 1959, in New York City, New York. McGinley is widely recognized for his versatile performances in both film and television, often portraying intense and memorable characters.
One of McGinley's most notable roles is as Dr. Perry Cox in the television series "Scrubs," which aired from 2001 to 2010. His portrayal of the acerbic yet compassionate doctor earned critical acclaim and a dedicated fan following. McGinley's performance in "Scrubs" showcased his ability to seamlessly transition between comedic and dramatic moments, making the character one of the show's highlights.
Prior to "Scrubs," McGinley appeared in a variety of films, including "Platoon" (1986), directed by Oliver Stone, where he portrayed Sergeant Red O'Neill. He has worked with Stone on multiple occasions, including in films like "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) and "Wall Street" (1987). McGinley's roles in these films showcased his range and versatility as an actor.
He has also appeared in other notable films such as "Office Space" (1999), "Any Given Sunday" (1999), "Identity" (2003), and "Se7en" (1995), among others. McGinley's performances often leave a lasting impression, and he has been praised for his ability to bring complexity and depth to his characters.
In addition to his work in film and television, John C. McGinley has also made appearances in theater productions. He has performed on Broadway in plays such as "Requiem for a Heavyweight" and "Glengarry Glen Ross."
Beyond acting, McGinley has taken on roles as a producer and writer. He co-wrote and produced the film "Colin Fitz Lives!" (1997) and served as an executive producer on "Scrubs."
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.047 |
Birthday | 1959-08-03 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | John McGinley, Джон К. Макгинли, |
1991
Point Break
7.164/3605
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and John...
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Point Break
1988
Talk Radio
7/231
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
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Talk Radio
1999
Office Space
7.378/3024
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living...
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Office Space
2007
Are We Done Yet?
5.797/619
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a...
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Are We Done Yet?
1995
Se7en
8.374/21322
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film t...
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Se7en
1987
Wall Street
7.168/2060
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthles...
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Wall Street
2003
Identity
7.182/3899
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers th...
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Identity
2000
Get Carter
5.2/578
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes...
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Get Carter
1994
Wagons East!
4.8/94
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide t...
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Wagons East!
1993
The Last Outlaw
5.3/56
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff, had once been a heroic and staunch su...
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The Last Outlaw
2007
Wild Hogs
6/2290
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue...
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Wild Hogs
2001
The Animal
5.112/1249
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His new...
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The Animal
2009
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
7/645
United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads...
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
1997
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
6.1/73
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap...
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Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
Nothing to Lose
6.562/620
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attem...
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Nothing to Lose
1992
A Midnight Clear
6.487/115
In 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two...
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A Midnight Clear
1994
Car 54, Where Are You?
3.4/26
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to...
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Car 54, Where Are You?
1998
Target Earth
4.5/11
Unlikely heroes must overcome incredible dangers to save mankind from the threat of an alien invasion.
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Target Earth
1991
Highlander II: The Quickening
4.706/858
In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from bo...
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Highlander II: The Quickening
2006
Puff, Puff, Pass
6/35
Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a...
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Puff, Puff, Pass
1992
Article 99
6.1/58
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...
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Article 99
1989
Fat Man and Little Boy
6.201/144
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...
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Fat Man and Little Boy
1996
The Rock
7.13/4724
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into Sa...
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The Rock
1994
On Deadly Ground
5.2/469
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care w...
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On Deadly Ground
2006
Two Tickets to Paradise
5.3/12
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventu...
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Two Tickets to Paradise
1997
Intensity
6.859/32
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in...
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Intensity
1993
Mother's Boys
5.4/67
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fall...
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Mother's Boys
1998
The Pentagon Wars
6.8/60
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 y...
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The Pentagon Wars
1989
Lost Angels
6.1/12
Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a t...
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Lost Angels
1994
Surviving the Game
6.143/196
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who h...
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Surviving the Game
2005
Alien Planet
6.9/26
The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away...
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Alien Planet
2002
Highway
5.5/131
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. P...
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Highway
1995
Born to Be Wild
5.4/37
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage...
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Born to Be Wild
1993
Hear No Evil
4.7/31
Jillian Shanahan, a deaf woman, becomes the target of a ruthless and corrupt cop. The cop is looking for a stolen coin, which he plans to keep for him...
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Hear No Evil
2002
Crazy As Hell
5/13
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All...
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Crazy As Hell
2012
Alex Cross
5.2/721
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fir...
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Alex Cross
1997
Colin Fitz
5/1
Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two...
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Colin Fitz
1992
Little Noises
5.7/5
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
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Little Noises
1988
Clinton and Nadine
3.8/16
Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns...
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Clinton and Nadine
2013
42
7.195/1813
In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous colour line when he signe...
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42
1993
Watch It
4.75/4
Mike, Danny, and Rick are grown men who share a house in Chicago. They take on a fourth house mate, John, who is Mike's estranged first cousin. John's...
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Watch It
2009
The Face is Familiar
0/0
Get to know some of Hollywood's most talented character actors, who have supported leading roles in films for decades. Some have even gone on to beco...
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The Face is Familiar
1992
Fathers and Sons
5.1/12
A beach runner and bookworm has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy...
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Fathers and Sons
2002
Stealing Harvard
4.793/135
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds...
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Stealing Harvard
1996
Mother
6.6/77
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
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Mother
1999
Any Given Sunday
6.819/1654
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance an...
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Any Given Sunday
1999
Three to Tango
5.8/249
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistake...
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Three to Tango
1996
Set It Off
7.2/355
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four wome...
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Set It Off
1989
Born on the Fourth of July
7.011/1703
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...
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Born on the Fourth of July
2016
Get a Job
5.324/663
Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But...
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Get a Job
2013
Watercolor Postcards
6.079/19
A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl...
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Watercolor Postcards
2014
Kid Cannabis
6.3/161
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to mak...
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Kid Cannabis
2015
Vacation
6.307/3723
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their...
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Vacation
1995
Nixon
6.9/368
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
2016
The Belko Experiment
6.146/1486
A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.
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The Belko Experiment
1996
Johns
5.6/21
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night a...
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Johns
2008
American Crude
4.077/26
Quite a bit can happen over the course of a single day in L.A., and when smooth-talking scam artist Johnny decides to throw a bachelor party for his b...
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American Crude
2017
The Good Catholic
5.5/46
An idealistic young priest is dedicated to his calling until he meets a woman at confession. After the meeting, he seeks guidance from his fellow prie...
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The Good Catholic
2003
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
6/94
The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the o...
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It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
2017
Battle of the Sexes
6.769/1858
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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Battle of the Sexes
1989
Prisoners of Inertia
5/1
A romantic comedy of misadventure.
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Prisoners of Inertia
2001
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
8.5/11
A documentary about the making of Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, Platoon (1986).
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A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
1999
The Jack Bull
6.363/84
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of My...
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The Jack Bull
1986
Platoon
7.742/4587
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Platoon
2018
Benched
6.2/12
Legendary baseball coach, Don, gets inexperienced Michael as his new assistant coach. As their lives dramatically change, the coaches must come togeth...
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Benched
1988
Shakedown
5.7/84
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investiga...
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Shakedown
1999
Flypaper
4.4/25
Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. T...
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Flypaper
2005
Lil' Pimp
5.7/7
A comedy about a nine-year-old pimp, Lil' Pimp, who hustles his ho's around the neighborhood. Along with his Mom, Pop, pimpin' pals Fruitjuice and Nag...
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Lil' Pimp
1989
Suffering Bastards
0/0
Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother.
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Suffering Bastards
1986
Sweet Liberty
5.556/36
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival...
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Sweet Liberty
1995
The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
8.8/4
Lieutenant Rick Hunter's girlfriend is murdered.
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The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
2020
Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing
7.4/37
When a musical dragon with a beautiful voice hypnotizes the dragons and people of Huttsgalor, the Rescue Riders have to find a way to break the spell.
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Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing
2001
Summer Catch
5.5/191
Local boy Ryan Dunne, now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish, the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley...
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Summer Catch
2016
The Drowning
4.5/121
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a m...
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The Drowning
2006
World Trade Center
6.14/1664
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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World Trade Center
2014
The Discoverers
5.4/8
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career...
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The Discoverers
2000
Sole Survivor
6.682/11
A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but...
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Sole Survivor
1994
On Deadly Ground
0/0
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care w...
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