. . . Where Are They Now? . . .
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This week we are catching up with actor John Getz, who has appeared in a number of films and television series over the years. Let's find out what he is up to now!

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Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Bruce Beresford: Director, "Driving Miss Daisy", "Tender Mercies".

Deanna Durbin: Hugely popular young film star in the 1930s and 1940s, her movies include "Three Smart Girls" and "That Certain Age", she walked away from movies at the age of 27 and never went back.

James Coco: Mustachioed movie actor, appeared in "Murder by Death", "The Cheap Detective" and other films.

(Answer at the bottom)
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John Getz
Learn More About John Getz on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: October 15, 1946, Davenport, Iowa

CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for his role in the Coen Brothers' neo-noir thriller Blood Simple (1984).

FAMILY LIFE: He has a daughter, Hannah, from his marriage to playwright Grace McKeaney.

INFO: Getz's first role was playing an attendant in a made-for-television horror film Killer Bees (1974). He moved to New York City and became active in local theater, and appeared as Neil Johnson for 18 months on the daytime soap opera Another World. He became well-known for his starring role in the Coen Brothers' neo-noir thriller Blood Simple (1984), as the lover of a married woman (Frances McDormand).

Getz has guest-starred in many television series, including the long-running Three's Company (1980) as Lee Tripper, brother of Jack Tripper played by the late John Ritter. More recently, he has guest-starred in How I Met Your Mother, Prison Break, and Private Practice.

Some of his other films include The Fly (1986) and The Fly II (1989), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Curly Sue (1991) and Men at Work (1990).

TRIVIA: One of four children.

Born and raised in the Mississippi River Valley of Northern Illinois and in Iowa.

One of his earliest roles was as "Shampoo Man" in a Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo commercial shot in the late 70s.

WHERE IS HE NOW: In 2007, Getz appeared in the film Zodiac, as well as in Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman's documentary film Nanking as George Ashmore Fitch, head of the local YMCA and Administrative Director of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone.

Most recently, he appeared in the 2010 film The Social Network, and the 2011 thriller Elevator. He also appeared on an episode of the new television series Scandal.

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CREDITS:

2012 Scandal (TV series)...Patrick Keating
Dirty Little Secrets

2011/I Elevator...Henry Barton

2010 The Social Network...Sy

2010 NCIS (TV series)...Walter Kane
Masquerade

2010 Ghost Whisperer (TV series)...Rudy Wharton
Living Nightmare

2009 Private Practice (TV series)...Mr. Kent
Strange Bedfellows

2009 Criminal Minds (TV series)...Andrew Kane
Pleasure Is My Business

2009 Trust Me (TV series)...Peter Derby
All Hell the Victors
Before and After

2009 Labor Intensive (short)...Older Man

2008 Prison Break (TV series)...Dr. Roger Knowlton
The Sunshine State

2008 Eleventh Hour (TV series)...William Gregory
Frozen

2008 Grey's Anatomy (TV series)...Michael Breyers
Dream a Little Dream of Me

2008 Mad Men (TV series)...Dr. Eric Stone
The New Girl

2008 Swingtown (TV series)...Steve Gilboy
Love Will Find a Way

2008 How I Met Your Mother (TV series)...Bob Hewitt
Miracles

2008 A Line in the Sand...Captain McClenon

2008 Superhero Movie...Lunatic Editor

2007 Hard Four...Blazedell Woodruff

2007 Big Shots (TV series)...Walter Storrs
Pilot

2007 Shark (TV series)...Judge Nicholas
Porn Free

2006-2007 Day Break (TV series)...Judge Tobias Booth / Unseen Man

2007/I Zodiac...Templeton Peck

2006 Las Vegas (TV series)
Meatball Montecito (2006)

2004-2006 The King of Queens (TV series)...Mr. Dugan

2006 The West Wing (TV series)...Congressman Mark B. Sellner
Tomorrow
Requiem

2006 Close to Home (TV series)...Maurice Hardecker
Land of Opportunity

2006 Cold Case (TV series)...Bill Simmons
Superstar

2005 Gun (Video Game)...J.J. Webb/Additional Voices (voice)

2005 Living 'til the End...Mr. Hines

2005 Medium (TV series)...Councilman Stuart McCallister
Sweet Dreams

2005 Wanted (TV series)...Mr. Salinger
The Promise of Darkness

2005 Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder (TV movie)...Dan

2004 A Day Without a Mexican...Senator Abercombie

2004 Without a Trace (TV series)...Mr. Garrett
The Season

2003 Joan of Arcadia (TV series)...D.A. Gabe Fellowes

2003 According to Jim (TV series)...Frank
Mom's Boyfriend

2003 CSI: Miami (TV series)...George Risher
Dead Woman Walking

2003 Hunger Point (TV movie)...David Hunter

2001 The Guardian (TV series)...Wendell Rapke
Indian Summer

2001 Zenon: The Zequel (TV movie)...General Hammond

2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series)...Richard Zeigler
Sex, Lies and Larvae

2000 Held for Ransom...Mr. Kirkland

2000 Providence (TV series)...Dr. Sullivan
Mother & Child

1999 JAG (TV series)...Adm. Harrison Spencer
Psychic Warrior

1998-1999 Maggie (TV series)...Dr. Arthur Day / Dr. Arthur 'Art' Day

1998 Some Girl...Claire's Father

1997 Painted Hero...Sheriff Acuff

1995-1996 Ned and Stacey (TV series)...Les McDowell

1996 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (TV series)...Karl Hansen
The Poor Pitiful Put-Upon Singer Episode

1996 Mojave Moon...Police Officer

1996 A Friend's Betrayal (TV movie)...Dennis Hewitt

1995-1996 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)...Jonas Cole / Kyle Kimball

1996 The Late Shift (TV movie)...Brandon Tartikoff

1995 Awake to Danger (TV movie)...Steve Murdock

1995 The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (TV series)...Roy Buchanan

1994 A Passion to Kill...Jerry

1994 Untamed Love (TV movie)...Dan

1994 Playmaker...Eddie

1994 Fortunes of War...Franklin Hewitt

1994 Betrayal of Trust (TV movie)...Curt

1993 Phenom (TV series)...Jack
Daddy's Home

1993 Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (TV movie)...Doug Hulin

1992 Majority Rule (TV movie)...Paul

1992 In My Daughter's Name (TV movie)...Michael Elias

1991 Curly Sue...Walker McCormick

1991 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead...Gus

1990 Murphy Brown (TV series)...Bob
Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery

1990 Men at Work...Maxwell Potterdam III

1989 Born on the Fourth of July...Marine Major - Vietnam

1989 The Fly II...Stathis

1988 Police Story: Burnout (TV movie)...Sgt. Jack Leland

1987 Mariah (TV series)...Ned Sheffield

1986 The Fly...Stathis Borans

1985 MacGruder and Loud (TV series)...Malcom MacGruder

1985 The Lucie Arnaz Show (TV series)
The Old Boyfriend (1985)

1985 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV series)...Thomas Sanders
I Want to Go Home

1984 Thief of Hearts...Ray Davis

1984 Blood Simple...Ray

1984 Concrete Beat (TV movie)

1984 Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs (TV series)...Geoff Bennett

1982 Not in Front of the Children (TV movie)...Dr. Paul Adams

1982 Muggable Mary, Street Cop (TV movie)...Dan Waters

1981 Tattoo...Buddy

1978-1981 Ryan's Hope (TV series)...Dr. Morgan Thomas / Jim

1981 Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (TV movie)

1981 Kent State (TV movie)...Professor Ted Arnold

1980 Three's Company (TV series)...Lee Tripper
Lee Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

1979 The Associates (TV series)...William Simmons
The First Day (1979) â?¦ William Simmons

1978 A Woman Called Moses (TV movie)...Stewart

1978 Loose Change (TV mini-series)...John Campbell

1978 Barnaby Jones (TV series)...Walter Alberts
The Scapegoat

1977 Barney Miller (TV series)...William McKuen
Atomic Bomb

1977 The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (TV series)...Christian Harrison
I Do, I Do (1977)

1977 Rafferty (TV series)...Dr. Daniel Gentry

1977 On Our Own (TV series)...Tom Ericson
Never Trust an Actor with His Clothes Off

1977 The Andros Targets (TV series)
Killer of the Year (1977)

1975 The Happy Hooker...Trout Fisherman

1974-1975 Another World (TV series)...Neil Johnson

1974 Killer Bees (TV movie)...Attendant

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Bruce Beresford - ALIVE
Born: 08/16/1940

Deanna Durbin - ALIVE
Born: 12/04/1921

James Coco - DEAD (Heart attack)
Born: 03/21/1930 Died: 02/25/1987

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
4/12
Marly Bueno, 78, Brazilian actress, complications after surgery.

4/11
Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer.
Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, President (1963-1965).
Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director.
Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress.
Agustín Alejo Román Rodríguez, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979-2003), heart attack.
Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor.

4/10
Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964-1999).
Erdogan Arica, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer.
Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter.
René Berange, 72, French footballer.
Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer.
Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).
Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress.
Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965-1974), pulmonary embolism.
Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer.
David Holtzman, Canadian gay activist, heart attack.
Karyn Kay, 63, American author and screenwriter, beaten.
Isamu Miyazaki, 92, Japanese fighter pilot and midshipman (Imperial Japanese Navy).
Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician.
Ivan Oliger, 102, Russian zoologist and entomologist.
Yoshikazu Shimizu, 58, Japanese journalist and editorial writer (Tokyo Shimbun), pancreatic cancer.
N. Varadarajan, 87, Indian politician.

4/9
Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).
José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963).
Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.
Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.
Jim Niven, Australian musician (The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, The Sports), cancer.
Meral Okay, 53, Turkish scriptwriter and actress, cancer.
Mitsunori Tozawa, 79, Japanese archaeologist, Principal of Meiji University (1996-2000).