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Photo:U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Kevin T. Brown Jr.Public domain

John C. McGinley

  • actor
  • voice actor
  • film producer
  • character actor
  • stage actor
  • television actor
  • film actor
  • screenwriter
  • Born 1959-08-03 (age 67)
  • Nationality United States
  • Years active 1986–present

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Filmography

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Career timeline

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Career in numbers

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Acting
19862
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Photos

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Quotes

  • There’s a tax that you incur when you use the “N” word or the “F” word, and there are groups, whether it’s the NAACP or gay groups, who will make you pay it. But if you use the “R” word, you’ve picked the most vulnerable target, because people within the intellectual disabilities population are not going to return serve. They aren’t genetically designed to confront you the way other groups do.

    John C. McGinley, CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Whenever you think you’re better than the words, you’re dead meat. I know actors all the time want to rewrite this, or rewrite that. I guess maybe if you’re some really skilled writer, actor, maybe like Ed Burns or somebody, but most of us you got to hew to the words. You got to hew to what’s on the page. And if you sprinkle in some of your sensibilities, that’s great and all that, but I love being a soldier of the words. That’s my thing. It always has been.

    John C. McGinley, CC BY-SA 4.0

TV appearances

Main cast 1

Guest appearances 22

Facts

Personal details
Nationalities
United States
Languages
English
Years active
1986–
Education
Circle in the Square Theatre School, Millburn High School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Syracuse University