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John C. McGinley

ジョン・C・マッギンリー　/　じょん・C・まっぎんりー

American actor

August 3, 1959 (age 66)　・　Greenwich Village, New York, United States

New York
actor
voice actor
film producer

My Take

John C. McGinley fascinates me because he built a career out of controlled intensity. Dr. Cox on Scrubs could have been a one-note bully, but McGinley laced every rant with wounded decency, turning him into the show's moral center. Look further back and you find him in Platoon, Wall Street, The Rock, and Point Break, always the abrasive guy you somehow cannot stop watching. That consistency across decades is no accident; it is stage-trained craft applied with total commitment. I consider him one of the most underrated American actors of his generation, and I would happily watch him read a phone book at full Cox velocity.

Overview

John Christopher McGinley (born August 3, 1959) is an American actor. He plays Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell in Office Space, Captain Hendrix in The Rock, Sergeant Red O'Neill in Oliver Stone's Platoon, Marv in Stone's Wall Street, FBI agent Ben Harp in Point Break, and the serial killer Edgler Foreman Vess in the TV miniseries of Intensity.

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1. Profile

Name (English): John C. McGinley
Name (Japanese): ジョン・C・マッギンリー
Reading: じょん・C・まっぎんりー
Born: August 3, 1959 (age 66)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Boar
Origin: Greenwich Village, New York, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: actor / voice actor / film producer / character actor / stage actor

2. Background

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High school: Millburn High School
University: Syracuse University

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4. Personality

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