John C. McGinley

John C McGinley is an American actor. He is notable for his roles as 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, based on the novel by Dean Koontz. He has written and produced for television and film. McGinley is a board member and international spokesman for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, and a spokesman for the National Down Syndrome Society. McGinley has had a prolific career, primarily as a supporting character actor. He was noticed by a casting scout while working as John Turturro's understudy in John Patrick Shanley's 1984 production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, which led to a successful audition for the role of Sergeant Red O'Neill in the Oscar-winning Platoon (1986). McGinley had been cast in his first film role in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty earlier in 1986. That was followed the next year with Wall Street (1987), and again the next with Talk Radio (1988). McGinley wrote the script for, and co-starred in, the 1990 film Suffering Bastards. Get connected with him through memmo, and receive celebrity messages or celebrity video messages. Request for a personalized video message from John C McGinley in the form of a birthday message, greetings, wishes, or shout-out.