Movies starring John C. McGinley

Biography: 
John C. McGinley's path to stardom is a story that reads like a classic Hollywood script. While an understudy in New York in the Circle-In-The-Square production of John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," he was spotted by director Oliver Stone and soon after was cast in "Platoon (1986)", the first of a long list of collaborations between Stone and McGinley that includes "Wall Street ...  show all 

The Rock (1996)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Nicolas Cage | Ed Harris | John Spencer | David Morse | William Forsythe | Michael Biehn | Vanessa Marcil | John C. McGinley | Gregory Sporleder | Tony Todd | Bokeem Woodbine | Jim Maniaci | Greg Collins | Brendan Kelly
Directors: Michael Bay
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel, who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Himmel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.

Platoon (1986)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Berenger | Willem Dafoe | Charlie Sheen | Forest Whitaker | Francesco Quinn | John C. McGinley | Richard Edson | Kevin Dillon | Reggie Johnson | Keith David | Johnny Depp | David Neidorf | Mark Moses | Chris Pedersen | Tony Todd
Directors: Oliver Stone
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Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two commanding officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes (Tom Berenger) and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe). A line is drawn between the two officers and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: Argentina | France | UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Virginia Madsen | Christopher Lambert | Michael Ironside | Allan Rich | John C. McGinley | Phil Brock | Rusty Schwimmer | Ed Trucco | Steven Grives | Jimmy Murray | Pete Antico | Peter Bucossi | Peter Bromilow | Jeff Altman
Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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Connor Macleod and Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez return in this all action sequel to 1985’s Highlander. The year is 2024, and MacLeod is now a mortal old man. However the world has become a very dead planet since the creation of “the shield”, an artifical ozone layer - which MacLeod supervised construction of. It turns out that MacLeod was banished from a distant past with his mentor Ramirez. MacLeod’s old nemesis from the past (General Katana) travels into the future to kill Connor once an for all. MacLeod calls upon the spirit of Ramirez to help him defeat Katana, before Katana kills him. MacLeod is also aided by Louise Marcus, an environmental activist that believes the ozone layer as repaired itself and “the shield” is no longer necessary.

Identity (2003)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Ray Liotta | Amanda Peet | John Hawkes | Alfred Molina | Clea DuVall | John C. McGinley | William Lee Scott | Jake Busey | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Rebecca De Mornay | Carmen Argenziano | Marshall Bell | Leila Kenzle | Matt Letscher
Directors: James Mangold
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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they’re there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

On Deadly Ground (1994)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Joan Chen | John C. McGinley | R. Lee Ermey | Shari Shattuck | Billy Bob Thornton | Richard Hamilton | Chief Irvin Brink | Apanguluk Charlie Kairaiuak | Elsie Pistolhead | John Trudell | Mike Starr | Sven-Ole Thorsen | Jules Desjarlais
Directors: Steven Seagal
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Posing as an environmental story about a corrupt oil company owner called Jennings, who will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska, this is just an excuse for another action film. Fists, feet, bullets and bombs galore as Forest Taft, a disgruntled employee, is chosen by an Eskimo chief as the saviour of his people. Forest’s mission is to prevent the new refinery going on-line before the land rights are returned to the Eskimos. The “God-damn” ludicrous dialogue is supposed to be “God-damn” serious, but you just try not “God-damn” laughing at it.

Three to Tango (1999)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Matthew Perry | Neve Campbell | Dylan McDermott | Oliver Platt | Cylk Cozart | John C. McGinley | Bob Balaban | Deborah Rush | Kelly Rowan | Rick Gomez | Patrick Van Horn | David Ramsey | Kent Staines | Ho Chow | Michael Proudfoot
Directors: Damon Santostefano
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A rich businessman, Dylan McDermott, mistakenly believes that Matthew Perry, who is bidding on a $90 million restoration contract, is gay and asks him to keep tabs on his mistress, Neve Campbell. Perry, who is not gay, falls for Neve in a big way but she thinks he’s gay.