. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans,I was a young girl when the movie Home Alone was released, and I just loved it. I remember having the VHS and watching it over and over again. Now, we get to find out what has been going on with the actor who played Kevin McAllister's dad in the hit movie - John Heard. He is still in the acting business. Let's find out what he has been in recently!
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View Past Issues: Where Are They Now Archives*--DEAD OR ALIVE?--See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Joe Penny: Played Jake in the TV series "Jake and the Fatman", he also appeared in the series "Riptide" and many other TV and movie roles
Jayne Meadows: She has appeared in many TV, movie and Broadway roles and was a panelist on the TV game show "I've Got a Secret" for many years
Hervé Villechaize: He played Tattoo on the TV series "Fantasy Island" and appeared in the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun"
(Answer at the bottom)*John HeardLearn More About John Heard on Celebrity NoozBIRTH DATE: March 7, 1945, Washington, D.C.
CLAIM TO FAME: He is known for playing Peter McCallister in the first two installments of the Home Alone movie series.
FAMILY LIFE: Heard's first marriage was in 1979 to actress Margot Kidder, which only lasted six days. He has a son named Jack with ex-girlfriend Melissa Leo. He is divorced from his second wife, Sharon Heard, by whom he has two children, Max and Annika. He was married for a third time to Lana Pritchard from May 24, 2010 to December 22, 2010.
INFO: Heard began his career in the 1970s with roles on the stage, television, and film. Off-Broadway, he appeared in 1974 in Mark Medoff's The Wager and at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 1977 in a series of new plays. In 1981, he starred in the film Cutter's Way in the role of Alex Cutter.
Some of his other films in the 1980s include the remake of Cat People, C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers), The Trip to Bountiful, Heaven Help Us, The Milagro Beanfield War, Big, Beaches, and played real-life Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson in the TV-miniseries Cross of Fire in 1989.
In 1990, he starred as Kevin's dad (Peter McAllister) in the hit comedy Home Alone, and reprised the role for its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
He has also appeared in the film Awakenings with Robert de Niro and Robin Williams, The Pelican Brief, Out on a Limb, One Eight Seven, and in the 2000 miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
On television, he appeared on The Sopranos as crooked cop Vin Makazian for which he received an Emmy nomination as outstanding guest actor, and on Battlestar Galactica as Commander Barry Garner.
TRIVIA: Attended Gonzaga College High School, then went on to graduate from Clark University in Worcester, MA.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 29.
His father worked for the Pentagon.
Has two sisters and one brother, Matthew, who died in 1975.
Won Obie Awards for his performances in Othello and Split in 1979-80.
WHERE IS HE NOW: He had recurring roles on CSI: Miami (as Kenwall Duquesne, father of Calleigh Duquesne) and Prison Break (as Frank Tancredi, Governor of Illinois and father of Sara Tancredi).
In 2006, he starred in the independent film Gamers: The Movie and had a part in the Touchstone Pictures movie, The Guardian. In 2007 he played the sheriff in the Denzel Washington-directed film, The Great Debaters.
On April 23, 2009, he appeared in an episode of Southland. Recently, Heard was seen on FOX's The Chicago Code for two episodes as the Mayor of Chicago.
In 2011 he appeared as Lehman Brothers COO Joe Gregory in Too Big to Fail, an HBO film.
* CREDITS:2012 The Insomniac (post-production)...Paul Epstein
2012 Would You Rather (post-production)...Conway
2012 The Legends of Nethiah (post-production)...Nethiah's Father
2011 A Perfect Ending (post-production)...Mason Westridge
2011 Stealing Roses (post-production)...Walter
2011 The Boys of Abu Ghraib (post-production)...Sam Farmer
2012 Torn (completed)...Detective Kalkowitz
2011 Whisper Me a Lullaby (completed)...Poppy
2011 Too Big to Fail (TV movie)...Joe Gregory
2011 The Chicago Code (TV series)...Mayor McGuinness
Mike Royko's Revenge
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
2010 Ivan's House (short)...Ivan
2007-2010 Entourage (TV series)...Richard Wimmer
Tequila Sunrise
Snow Job
2010 Gravity (TV series)...B.C. / BC
Are We All Just Dead?
Damn Skippy
Namaste MF
2010/I The Truth...Jonathan Davenport
2010 The Quickening (TV movie)...Ed Erlich
2009 Little Hercules in 3-D...Coach Nimms
2009 Formosa Betrayed...Tom Braxton
2009 Southland (TV series)...Ben Sherman Sr.
Westside
See the Woman
2009 The Beast (TV series)...Dr. Blake
Mercy
2009 Red State Blues (short)...Fritz
2008 My Own Worst Enemy (TV series)...Peter
Down Rio Way
2008 The Lucky Ones...Bob
2008 Justice League: The New Frontier (video)...Ace Morgan (voice)
2008 P.J...Dr. Alan Shearson
2008 Skip Tracer (TV movie)...Con Colbert
2007 The Great Debaters...Sheriff Dozier
2007 Cavemen (TV series)...Tripp
Her Embarrassed of Caveman
2007 Brothers Three: An American Gothic...Father
2007 The Line-Up (TV movie)
2005-2006 Prison Break (TV series)...Governor Frank Tancredi
2006/I The Guardian...Capt. Frank Larson
2006 Gamers...Gordon's Dad
2006 Battlestar Galactica (TV series)...Commander Barry Garner
The Captain's Hand
2006 Dead Lenny...Dr. Robert Hooker
2006 Steel City...Carl Lee
2006 The Line-Up (TV movie)...Walter Clark
2006 Twenty Questions (TV movie)...C. Collin Whitworth
2005 Numb3rs (TV series)...Peter Houseman
Soft Target
2005 Sweet Land...Minister Sorrensen
2005 Edison...Tilman
2005/II Tracks...Prison Warden
2005 The Deal...Professor Roseman
2004-2005 Jack & Bobby (TV series)...Dennis Morgenthal
2003-2005 CSI: Miami (TV series)...Kenwall 'Duke' Duquesne
2005 Locusts (TV movie)...Dr. Peter Axelrod
2005 The Chumscrubber...Officer Lou Bratley
2004 My Tiny Universe...Bobby
2004 White Chicks...Warren Vandergeld
1999-2004 The Sopranos (TV series)...Det. Vin Makazian / Vin Makazian
2004 Mind the Gap...Henry Richards
2004 Under the City...Scova
2003 Word of Honor (TV movie)...Dr. Steven Brandt
2002 Hack (TV series)...Paul 'Webster' Ballinger
Songs in the Night
2002 Fair Play (short)...Owen
2002 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)...Gregory Rossovitch / Peter Sipes
Disappearing Acts
2002 The Pilot's Wife (TV movie)...Jack Lyons
2002 Touched by an Angel (TV series)...Allen
Secrets and Lies (2002) â?¦ Allen
2002 Monday Night Mayhem (TV movie)...Roone Arledge
2002 Researching Raymond Burke (short)...Raymond Burke
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV series)...Larry Wiegert
The Pardoner's Tale
2001 The Secret Pact...Jerome Carver
2001 The Big Heist (TV movie)...Richard Woods
2001 O...Dean Bob Brable
2001 The Boys of Sunset Ridge...John Burroughs
2001 Dying on the Edge...John Fuller
2000 Pollock...Tony Smith
2000 The Wednesday Woman (TV movie)...Bill Davidson
2000 The Photographer...Marcello
2000 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (TV movie)...Larry Mason
2000 Animal Factory...James Decker
1994-1999 Law & Order (TV series)...Mitch Burke / Walter Grobman
DNR
Doubles
1999 Freak Weather...David
1999 Jazz Night (short)...John Little
1999 Fish Out of Water...Gregor
1998 Desert Blue...Prof. Lance Davidson
1998 Snake Eyes...Gilbert Powell
1997 One Eight Seven...Dave Childress
1997 Men...George Babbington
1997 Executive Power (video)...Cyrus Walker
1997 Silent Cradle...Dr. Brittain
1996 My Fellow Americans...Vice President Ted Matthews
1995-1996 The Client (TV series)...Roy Foltrigg
1996 Before and After...Wendell Bye
1995 The Outer Limits (TV series)...Paul Stein
Dark Matters
1995 American Masters (TV series documentary)...Montresor (segment "The Cask of Amontillado")
Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
1994 Because Mommy Works (TV movie)...Ted Forman
1994 In Spite of Love (TV movie)...Andrew
1993 The Pelican Brief...Gavin Vereek
1993 Me and Veronica...Frankie
1993 In the Line of Fire...Professor Riger
1993 There Was a Little Boy (TV movie)...Gregg
1992 Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (TV movie)...Dan Lawn - State of Alaska
1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York...Peter McCallister
1992 Waterland...Lewis Scott
1992 Gladiator...John Riley
1992 Radio Flyer...Daugherty
1991 Deceived...Jack Saunders
1991 Rambling Rose...Willcox Hillyer (Buddy as an adult)
1990 Awakenings...Dr. Kaufman
1990 Home Alone...Peter McCallister
1990 The End of Innocence...Dean
1990 Mindwalk...Thomas Harriman
1990 Blown Away (TV movie)...Charlie
1989 Cross of Fire (TV movie)...David 'D.C.' Stephenson
1989 The Package...Col. Glen Whitacre
1989 Screen Two (TV series)...Michael Johnson
Virtuoso
1988 Beaches...John Pierce
1988 Betrayed...Michael 'Mike' Carnes
1988 Big...Paul
1988 Necessity (TV movie)...Charlie
1988 The Seventh Sign...Reverend
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War...Charlie Bloom
1988 The Telephone...Telephone Man
1987 The Equalizer (TV series)...Ron Parrish
In the Money
1987 Out on a Limb (TV movie)...David Manning
1986 Miami Vice (TV series)...Laurence Thurmond
One Way Ticket
1985 The Trip to Bountiful...Ludie Watts
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)...Bill Callahan
Breakdown
1985 Tales from the Darkside (TV series)...Billy Malone
Ring Around the Redhead
1985 Tender Is the Night (TV mini-series)...Abe North
1985 After Hours...Thomas 'Tom' Schorr
1985 Heaven Help Us...Brother Timothy
1985 Too Scared to Scream...Sid
1984 Best Revenge...Charlie
1984 C.H.U.D....George Cooper
1984 Kate & Allie (TV series)...Max McArdle
A Weekend to Remember
1984 Violated...Skipper
1983 Legs (TV movie)...Dan
1983 Will There Really Be a Morning? (TV movie)...Clifford Odets
1982 Cat People...Oliver Yates
1981 Cutter's Way...Alex Cutter
1980 Heart Beat...Jack Kerouac
1979 Chilly Scenes of Winter...Charles
1979 The Scarlet Letter (TV mini-series)...Arthur Dimmesdale
1978 On the Yard...Juleson
1978 Rush It...Byron
1977 First Love...David
1977 Between the Lines...Harry Lucas
1975 Valley Forge (TV movie)...Mr. Harvie
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Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Joe Penny - ALIVE
Born: 06/24/1956
Jayne Meadows - ALIVE
Born: 09/27/1920
Hervé Villechaize - DEAD (Suicide)
Born: 04/23/1943 Died: 09/04/1993
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...1/25Veronica Carstens, 88, German First Lady (1979â??1984).
Carlos Escarrá, 54, Venezuelan politician, heart attack.
Emil Hossu, 70, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest.
Jonathan Idema, 55, American con artist, complications from AIDS.
Mabel Manzotti, 73, Argentine actress (Besos en la Frente, Vidas robadas), complications from a stroke.
Alexandr Zhitinsky, 71, Russian writer.
1/24Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek film director, hit by motorcycle.
Sukumar Azhikode, 85, Indian writer, critic and orator, cancer.
James Farentino, 73, American actor (Dynasty, ER, Melrose Place), heart failure.
John Garrahy, 81, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1977â??1985).
Delma Kollar, 114, American supercentenarian, one of the 100 verified oldest people ever.
Stan Mitchell, 67, American football player (Miami Dolphins).
W. Allen Pepper, Jr., 70, American federal judge for the Northern District of Mississippi (since 1999), heart attack.
Stig Sæterbakken, 46, Norwegian writer.
1/23David Atkinson, 71, British politician, MP for Bournemouth East (1977â??2005), bowel cancer.
Amal Bose, 75, Bangladeshi actor.
Wesley E. Brown, 104, American federal judge for the District Court for Kansas (since 1962).
Anthony Capo, 52, American mobster-turned-informant (DeCavalcante crime family), heart attack.
Yardena Cohen, 101, Israeli dancer and choreographer.
Sadahiro Kojima, 60, Japanese racehorse trainer.
Charla Krupp, 58, American author, breast cancer.
Milos Pojar, 71, Czech author and diplomat.
Bingham Ray, 57, American independent film executive, complications from strokes.
Gerhard Schröder, 90, German television executive.
1/22Jim Irwin, 77, American sportscaster (WTMJ), voice of the Green Bay Packers, complications from kidney cancer.
Andy Musser, 74, American sportscaster (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers).
Katsuro Nakamura, 86, Japanese doctor, pneumonia.
Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach (Penn State Nittany Lions), lung cancer.
Pierre Sudreau, 92, French politician, inspired The Little Prince.
Clarence Tillenius, 98, Canadian artist and conservationist.
Dick Tufeld, 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of Robot B-9 on Lost in Space.