John Spencer
John Spencer was born in New York City, New York, United States on December 20th, 1946 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 58, John Spencer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Spencer began his television career on The Patty Duke Show, and eventually began appearing in supporting roles in feature films commencing with 1983's WarGames. He won an Obie Award for the 1981 off Broadway production of Still Life, about a Vietnam War veteran, and received a Drama Desk nomination for The Day Room. In 1986 he appeared on Broadway as Dan White, the killer of Harvey Milk, in Execution of Justice, alongside Stanley Tucci and Wesley Snipes. Spencer became a full-fledged supporting actor with the hit 1990 courtroom thriller Presumed Innocent, portraying a tough veteran homicide detective, starring opposite Harrison Ford. Spencer's work also extended to video games, portraying the role of Captain Hugh Paulsen in the 1995 video game Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. Spencer's subsequent film and television work primarily consisted of supporting roles such as a colleague and friend to Billy Crystal's basketball ref in Forget Paris and a prickly FBI official in Michael Bay's film The Rock.
In 1990 Spencer joined the cast of the television series L.A. Law, playing street wise attorney Tommy Mullaney from 1990-1994. Spencer originally wasn't going to take the role but after reading 5 pages of the script he was convinced and said "it was one of the best scripts I’d read". Spencer said his characters disheveled wardrobe was based on his own. Spencer said he and co star Cecil Hoffman spent time in New york to prepare for the role.
In 1999, Spencer was cast as Leo McGarry on the NBC political drama series The West Wing. Spencer's character was White House Chief of Staff to fictional U.S. President Josiah Bartlet like Spencer, McGarry was a recovering alcoholic and compulsive worker. McGarry character was also a former US Air force pilot who served in the Vietnam War.
Spencer's character would later be chosen as Jimmy Smits character's running mate. Spencer's role on the show earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2002, for the show's third season episodes "Bartlet for America" and "We Killed Yamamoto."