John C. McGinley to star in new pilot for Bill Lawrence called Ground Floor

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John C. McGinley may have found himself at the mercy of his company in Glengarry Glen Ross, but now the actor is about to start running things. McGinley will star as a corporate boss in the TBS comedy pilot Ground Floor, according to Deadline.com. The new work place comedy will mark a reunion between McGinley and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence. 

Written by Lawrence and Greg Malins and directed by Gail Mancuso, Ground Floor follows a 29-year-old alpha male who has successfully risen through corporate America. He soon becomes forced to interact with his company’s support staff, a close group of care-free and fun-loving people. McGinley will play the group's boss Mr. Mansfield.

McGinley returned to Broadway after a 26 year absence earlier this season in the Al Pacino-led revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. He is known for his nine season turn as hot-tempered doctor Perry Cox onScrubs. His film credits include The Rock, Platoon and Seven. 

Watercolor Postcards trailer

John has a supporting role in this new movie.

Trailer is here:

Watercolor Postcards Trailer 1 from Rajeev Dassani on Vimeo.

My experience at Glengarry Glen Ross and meeting John C. McGinley

I went to go see Glengarry Glen Ross in late December on Broadway.  How could I pass up seeing John in one of the best written plays ever?

The performance started out a little bit shaky as Pacino's lines could barely be heard in the back where I was seated.  Then he ramped it up a bit.  I felt Pacino as Levene was a miscast in the beginning of the play, but he gave it a life of his own later on in the second act.  The second scene started and John C. McGinley stole the show with his rendition of Dave Moss, landing each line with precision you do not see too often.

While he was only in a few scenes and leaves the play towards the 2/3 mark, I strongly feel that John was a big anchor for the entire show.  A feat that was hard going against Pacino and Cannavale (who really took the Roma role to a new level).

I waited outside the theater afterward in hopes to get some signatures and meet John after the show got out. Unfortunately I was too late in getting to the right spot where the actors come out and missed him completely as he had exited first.  I didn't find this fact out until everyone else had left the stage doors and another person waiting had told me.

I was a little upset, but I didn't let that stop me.  My friends and I decided to come back two weeks later and get in line for the autograph seekers earlier on in the evening before the show let out.  I was hoping that the second time might be the charm.

I was right.  John came out right after Al Pacino did.  I was able to get his autograph, mention to him that I had been running this site, drop him a little note asking for an interview if he ever had the time and even got a picture with him.  He was extremely nice and made my wish of meeting him a reality that I will not forget.

His public relations manager contacted me the next day and arranged an email interview for the site, which I will post as soon as I hear back from her.

My dream of meeting my favorite actor finally came true and I could not be more happy about it.

Awesome!

John speaks about Glengarry.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/12/28/john-c-mcginley-on-glengarry-glen-ross-critics-and-al-pacino/

When John C. McGinley got a call asking him to play Dave Moss in “Glengarry Glen Ross” with Al Pacino on Broadway he immediately began memorizing. Five days a week, four hours a day, for four weeks straight, he learned every ellipsis and comma in the brutal Pulitzer-prize winning script by David Mamet. He turned his rehearsal space in Los Angeles into “Mamet Theater Boot Camp” he says, and hired a young actor to be the “text police.”

“I told him what I want you to do is police the commas, the pauses, and the italics,” says Mr. McGinley. “I don’t ever want you to tell me how you think this is going, because you have no idea. All I want you to do is just be the word police,” Mr. McGinley says. “I just became this Mamet zealot.”

The technique worked. The most anticipated show of the fall – with Pacino as Shelley Levene and Bobby Cannavale as Ricky Roma – has gotten mixed reviews overall but McGinley, whose character plots to rob a third-rate real estate office, is often singled out for his performance.

Although he’s friends with Ed Harris, who played Moss in cult-status movie version of the play, he wouldn’t ask him for any advice or even watch the film. “I wanted to explore this one by myself.”

He admits his co-stars were surprised when he showed up for the first rehearsal looking a little like the do-gooder student who actually completes all of his summer reading over the vacation.

“I came to New York so wired it wasn’t even funny,” he laughs. “They thought I was a jackass.”

He spoke to Speakeasy about working with Pacino, memorizing Mamet, extending previews, and his not-so-delicate thoughts on critics. Following is an edited transcript.

How does it feel to be getting so many good reviews?

I’ve never gotten notices like this. I wouldn’t even put that kind of stuff on my bucket list, because it would never have occurred to me before. I wouldn’t put on my bucket list being on Broadway with Al Pacino and being directed by Daniel Sullivan — because it’s just never gonna happen. So when it does, it’s kind of astonishing.

I’ve done 70 films, 200 episodes of TV…  as Dr. Cox on “Scrubs” I got some good write ups there, but not like this. You don’t dream about this stuff. And so I’ll see these different write-ups and it seems like I must have composed them in a dark closet somewhere and dispatched them myself.

You haven’t been on Broadway in 27 years – not since “Requiem for a Heavyweight” in 1985. What took you so long?

The last time I was here we opened on a Thursday and closed on Sunday. It was shattering. It was profoundly upsetting.  Enough to where I didn’t want to do it anymore. I turned down a bunch of Broadway shows because it was too emotionally expensive.

You worked with Pacino on Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday.” Is he the one who wanted you in this production?

I haven’t had the spine to ask why I got offered this play. I’m sure someone must have championed me and I haven’t asked yet. I don’t know why. It’s a little cowardly.

You often get cast as a jerk. Why is that? Are you one?

Sometimes I get cast as kind of a tough guy with a heart of gold. That’s what I try to do. Because, if the character’s just a jackass all the time there’s nothing redeeming. You can’t follow that character for nine years on TV. We tried to make Dr. Cox a tortured, damaged guy.

Dave Moss is the exploration of hopelessness, and what desperation spawns. All actors are familiar with hopelessness, we’ve all had a taste of hopelessness and it feels profoundly desperate. So if I plugged that into this character, all of a sudden I connected to that sense of hopelessness. When men are hopeless, it’s game on.

You’ve said you followed Mamet’s script exactly, breath for breath.

[In the script] there are pauses and words italicized and capitalized and in bold font for where David wants you to do this, that, and the other thing. I took that to be like Shakespeare – unless you’re going to do Iambic pentameter you might as well do a different play. And in my brain I just figured unless you are going to respect what David put on the page — I mean the play only won a Pulitzer — I just think you might as well do a different play. You might as well dance the steps that he put down for you to dance. And I did, and I still do.

That’s what people seemed to be a little miffed about with Pacino — that he wasn’t doing that specific Mamet-speak.

I don’t buy that stuff.  Al’s a god. You’re lucky to be in a room with him for two hours. Give me a break. There are nights when I watch that guy from the side of  the stage and I weep. He’s one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema and he’s astonishing on stage. I think they’re taking cheap shots. Al’s one of the great storytellers ever. You get to be in a room with him for two hours. Be quiet.

Well, people seemed to feel a little confused by the whole extended preview process and the price of the tickets.

Not people. Not people. A couple of writers at the New York Times.  Not people. I don’t agree with you. Not people. Here’s the problem. It’s real simple. If you’re a reviewer and your review is rendered irrelevant because the run is sold out, you’re going to be a petulant child and want to take your basketball and go home so the other kids in the playground can’t play with it. Because your opinion is not going to move the meter. So of course you’re going to have an axe to grind.

Who cares that there were more previews? What a jackass thing to reference. 1200 people are standing at the end of the show every night. What’s that? That’s because the previews were postponed? Yeah, it got tuned up, sure. So what?

(He laughs.) Now the New York Times is going to kill me the rest of my career.

Well the economics are a little bizarre for these plays. They would be hard to mount successfully without Al Pacino, but on the other hand, tickets were not cheap.

The business model worked out beautifully. There are only two or three people who can do this. Hugh Jackman, Al, and a couple other people where whatever the critics write is completely irrelevant. And that pisses them off. So what! These are the same people who hated “Les Mis” when it opened and tied to kill it. That didn’t work either.

John talks preparation for Glengarry and why it's his favorite role to date.

http://broadwaysbestshows.com/buzz/news/2012/12/03/john-c-mcginley-talks-mamets-glengarry-broadway-and-malibu/

How do you feel about your return to Broadway? Does it feel different with Glengarry Glen Ross?

It is profoundly different because last time I was in a show, it tuned up for a month in three different cities before it came to Broadway. We ran for two weeks of previews. We opened on Friday and closed on Sunday. It was completely and utterly devastating. It’s been different doing this run since it is pretty much sold out and will run until January 20th.!

Before returning, you have been keeping plenty busy in the worlds of television, film, voice-over work, etc… Do you have a favorite medium you’ve had the chance to work in?

Doing Glengarry is the single most exciting thing I’ve done as an actor. If you’re lucky enough to make a living as an actor, your family still has bills to pay. If you can get into the fraternity that is voice-over acting, it’s grand! If you can get on a TV show that runs for 9 years, that’s what dreams are made of. If you can do 6 movies with Oliver Stone, you’re lucky because the only other director who hires actors again that many times is Preston Sturgess. I feel I’m the single luckiest guy on the planet.

Recently, you’ve been working on multiple projects simultaneously. How do you balance your time while juggling all of them?

I just love doing it so it fuels me. The chaos fuels me.

Do you ever need any escapes from the chaos?

We live in Malibu, so I have to commute to every gig I get. It gives me time to go over stuff as I drive. I grew up in New York and Malibu reminds me of the Jersey Shore. Malibu is equidistant to Los Angeles as Bayhead is to the Village. I get the best of both worlds this way!

Going back to Glengarry, how to you start your process of getting to know your character Dave Moss?

I needed to start with the music of the language before I did anything else. I set up a theater boot camp in my rehearsal space in Malibu back in August. I hired a young kid to come out and just do the music of the words for four weeks. I used a metronome and many tricks to really get the rhythm and language in my bones.

Q&A with John C. McGinley

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/172411-PLAYBILLCOMS-CUE-A-Scrubs-and-Glengarry-Glen-Ross-Star-John-C-McGinley

Stage and screen star John C. McGinley, who returns to Broadway in the role of Dave Moss in the current revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.

McGinley has previously appeared on Broadway in Requiem For a Heavyweight and played Stu in the Public Theater and film versions of Talk Radio.

Full given name:	John Christopher McGinley
Where you were born/where you were raised:	Born in Greenwich Village, NYC. Grew up in Short Hills, NJ.
Zodiac Sign:	Leo
What your parents did/do for a living:	Father: Businessman Mother: Teacher
Siblings	Two brothers and two sisters
Special skills:	Advocating for the special needs community
Something you're REALLY bad at:	Suffering bullies
First Broadway show you ever saw:	Harry Chapin's The Night That Made America Famous
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?	The Petrified Forest with Humphrey Bogart
Where did you train and were there any particularly memorable college productions?	NYU Graduate Theatre Program (M.F.A. '84)Camino Real
Did you have any particular mentors or inspirations as a young actor?	Mentor: Ron Van Lieu
Favorite showtune(s) of all time:	"Not While I'm Around" "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"
Favorite musicals:	Sweeney Todd The Mikado Dreamgirls Camelot
Some favorite modern plays:	Speed-the-Plow Danny and the Deep Blue Sea M. Butterfly Angels in America
Some favorite modern playwrights:	David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley, Tony Kushner and David Henry Hwang
Stage or screen stars of the past you would most have loved to perform with:	Spencer Tracy, Robert Shaw, Anna Magnani, Rita Hayworth, Richard Farnsworth
The one performance – attended - that you will never forget:	David Dukes and Richard Gere inBent
Music that makes you cry or moves you, any genre:	"Kentucky Ave" by Tom Waits "The Fixer" by Eddie Vedder "Do Ya" by E.L.O.
Your personal acting idols:	Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Walter Huston
MAC or PC	MAC
Most-visited websites:	Huffington Post Sports Illustrated NY Times
Most played song on your iPod:	The Prelude to Lohengrin
Last book you read:	"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Must-see TV show(s):	"Homeland" "Dexter" "Boardwalk Empire"
Last good movie you saw:	"The Odd Life of Timothy Green"
Some films you consider classics:	"The Grey Fox" "Field of Dreams" "Casablanca" "Butch Cassidy…" "There Will Be Blood" "Gilda" "The Godfather"
Performer you would drop everything to go see:	Luciano Pavarotti
Pop culture guilty pleasure:	Vanity Fair Three favorite cities: Dublin, Florence, San Francisco Favorite sport/team/player: Football The New York Giants! Lawrence Taylor First CD/Tape/LP you owned: Steve Miller's "The Joker" How you got your Equity card: A summer stock production ofCarousel in Auburn, NY. Favorite liquid refreshment: Coffee What was your most recent stage production? Breast Men in the Los Angeles One-Act festival What do you most appreciate about the stage? No one can call "Cut!" What drew you back to Broadway after 25 years? David Mamet… and Al Pacino… and Daniel Sullivan Have you seen any previous productions of Glengarry? The original with Joe Mantegna How did you research for this role? Worked with my acting coach David Allen Warshofski! Any upcoming projects you can talk about? "Burn Notice" "Alex Cross" with Tyler Perry "42" with Harrison Ford Will there be hockey this year, and why or why not? Not so much. Because of short-sighted, greedy owners. How's your golf game these days? My sticks have been put away for the winter! How are you enjoying your extended time in New York? It has been spectacular! Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap: I "went up" during my monologue in Talk Radio at the Public. After a few seconds I turned upstage and sat back down in my seat… brutal!! Worst costume ever: The dolphin shorts in "Are We Done Yet?" Most challenging role you have played onstage: "Heracles" directed by Tony Kushner Out of so many, do you have any favorite screen roles? Sergeant O'Neil in "Platoon" Dr. Cox in "Scrubs" Bob Slydell in "Office Space" Marvin in "Wall Street" Other Mamet plays you'd like to take on: Lakeboat Something about you that surprises people: That I will not abide even the most casual use of the words "retard" or "retarded." Three things you can't live without: Max Billie Grace Kate Career you would want if not a performer: Stone mason Words of advice for aspiring performers: 1. Train until you are blue in the face 2. Learn your lines!!

Glengarry opening gets pushed back a month.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/glengarry-glen-ross-pushes-back-opening-by-a-month/

Burn Notice is back.

November 8th, Burn Notice finishes the second half of it's season on the USA network.  Expect to see John C. McGinley in a few new episodes.

Dr. Cox tops the list of TV "jerkasses".

http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/10/the-greatest-jerkasses-in-television-history/

Pretty funny article.  Pretty accurate as well.

Intensity is FINALLY available on DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/DEAN-KOONTZS-INTENSITY-John-McGinley/dp/B0080GT9W6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1345229684&sr=8-2&keywords=intensity

It only took 15 years for this to happen.  Make sure to get yourself a copy of this ASAP.  It was a fantastic thriller.

John talks preparing upcoming role as a pot farmer.

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When you've played as many characters as John C. McGinley - surgeons, serial killers, military commanders, CIA agents and more - being approached by fans goes with the territory.

It happened again when McGinley, in town to film Kid Cannabis, went to Pagliacci's for dinner. He soon found himself chatting with enthusiastic tourists from Missouri who recognized one of Hollywood's most prolific character actors.

"I prefer 'getting paid' actor," laughs the New York native.

On a balmy August afternoon, after driving a tractor through a field near Prospect Lake in character, the lanky film star took a breather to chat about fatherhood, politics and the "John McGinleytype" casting term he has inspired.

It doesn't necessarily refer to his reputation for onscreen sarcasm, intensity or buffoonery, maintains the actor, whose roles include his grinning, Michael Bolton-obsessed efficiency expert in Office Space; sardonic, no-nonsense Dr. Perry Cox on NBC's Scrubs; and roles in Oliver Stone movies such as Sgt. Red O'Neill in Platoon and motormouthed Marvin in Wall Street.

"I think it means someone with lots of energy who can do a lot of dialogue," he says.

"If it's not an eccentric role, it's the who-what-where-when-how guy. The hero's not going to do all that expository stuff. It's the next-doorneighbour, the boss, the co-worker. He's going to tell us what time the bomb's going to go off."

McGinley, 53, figures directors hire him because he understands the storytelling process.

"I can figure out specifically where I can fit into it, so that makes me an asset on set. It's one less thing for a director to worry about," says the actor, who appears to be on Oliver Stone's speed dial. (He also played Stu in Stone's Talk Radio and Jack Rose, an obnoxious Jim Rometype sports reporter in Any Given Sunday, among other Stone films.)

"I'm Mr. Preparation," says McGinley. In fact, he took two weeks to "get into the groove" for his role as a fanatical marijuana farmer in Kid Cannabis, writerdirector John Stockwell's factbased film about Idaho teenagers who built a pot-smuggling empire.

"My character has an almost religious devotion to cannabis," said McGinley, who also visited a growop that day.

"Everything I did over the past two weeks yielded profound dividends. I'm not smart enough to do that stuff on the fly."

McGinley and Stockwell, a fellow member of the Malibu Mob, had wanted to do a movie together for years, and the timing was right. He squeezed it in between the start of rehearsals for this fall's Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross with Al Pacino, and wrapping 42, Brian Helgeland's biopic of baseball legend Jackie Robinson with Harrison Ford in Atlanta. McGinley plays Walter (Red) Barber, the colourful Brooklyn Dodgers play-by-play sportscaster.

He also has a recurring role as former CIA operative Tom Card in Burn Notice, and plays an ambitious police chief opposite Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox in Alex Cross, the upcoming crime thriller he says is similar in tone to Silence of the Lambs.

The versatile veteran, whose wackier roles included playing a gay highway patrolman in Wild Hogs, laments he was too often regarded as "Mr. Serious Guy until Scrubs came along and then I became the funny guy. I'm happy to straddle those two."

His comedic skills were obvious in Office Space, when writer-director Mike Judge let McGinley creatively tweak his character.

"I decided he wasn't just going to be enamoured [with Bolton], but fanatical. I took it to a whole other level of dysfunction."

McGinley's passion for acting and sports - he loves the New York Yankees and golf, which he plays with best friend John Cusack - is matched by his devotion to family. He has a teenage son with Down syndrome, Max, and two young girls from his marriage to Nicole Kessler, a yoga instructor Max approached on the beach one day while McGinley was chasing his dogs.

"I came back and Max was sitting next to this goddess," he said, laughing. "I wouldn't have had the courage to say hello."

As a vocal advocate for the special-needs community, McGinley is less shy. He has vowed to help stop casual use of the R-word - retard - since he attended a youth leadership conference during the 2009 Winter Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho. The campaign is called Spread the Word to End the Word.

"If you disparage an AfricanAmerican or Jewish or gay American or Canadian, there will be repercussions, whether it's a blowback or a boycott," he said.

"But when you do that to the special-needs community, less than nothing happens. You've picked the perfect target to exercise your vitriol and cowardice. I'll be the guy to call you out on it, because it stinks."

McGinley, who spoofed Republican party presidential nominee Rick Santorum in Will Ferrell's Funny Or Die website, is no less outspoken about politics.

"I'm a Cadillac liberal," he says. "I want lower taxes and I want us to get out of Kabul. Billions that could be elevating people with special needs is going to drones in Afghanistan.

"As soon as someone can explain to me why 185,000 kids are there, I'm all ears. I don't get it. I've asked Arianna Huffington and everyone. No one can give me a real answer, just the glib answers."

To add your support to more than 300,000 pledges to eliminate the R-word, visit r-word.org.

John is coming to Broadway!

I'm definitely getting tickets for this.  One of my favorite performance plays/movies.

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John C. McGinley will star as Dave Moss in the forthcoming Broadway revival ofGlengarry Glen Ross, alongsidepreviously announced stars Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale and more. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play begins performances October 16 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. The production will open officially on November 11.

Glengarry Glen Ross is the story of a cutthroat quest to win a sales contest in a Chicago real estate office. In addition to featuring McGinley as Dave Moss, Pacino as Shelly “The Machine” Levene and Cannavale as Ricky Roma, the production stars previously announced Tony nominee David Harbour as John Williamson, Emmy winner Richard Schiff as George Aaronow and Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos as James Lingk.

Best known as Dr. Perry Cox on TV’s Scrubs, McGinley appeared on Broadway in Requiem for a Heavyweight and off-Broadway in Talk Radio and The Ballad of Soapy Smith. His additional film and TV credits include Wall Street, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, Office Space, Seven, Wild Hogs, Identity, Point Break, A Midnight Clear, Little Boy, Born on the Fourth of July and the 1988 film adaptation of Talk Radio.

Happy belated birthday, John!

I was away for a few days and didn't have internet access to wish John a very happy birthday over the weekend.  53 years!  I'm happy to see him on the small screen again in Burn Notice and to see him in a few upcoming movies he has in the bag very soon on the big screen.

John talks about living in Miami and working on Burn Notice

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John C. McGinley may call Los Angeles home, but spending time in Miami for his guest stint in USA Network’s Burn Notice wasn’t a hardship.

The former Scrubs star, 52, lived here for a few months while filming Oliver Stone’s 1999’s football movie Any Given Sunday.

“I lived right above the News Cafe in South Beach back then, and now I’m in Coconut Grove. It’s fantastic,’’ he says over a plate of wings on the terrace of Mike’s at the Venetia Condo. “Look at the moon. I mean, c’mon!”

McGinley explains his newly introduced character Tom Card, whom Michael teams up with to help bust his girlfriend Fiona ( Gabrielle Anwar) out of prison before she gets a shank.

“Tom was an CIA operative, and now he’s more of an administrative guy,’’ McGinley explains. “Earlier he trained Michael how to be a spy and in fact went over to Ireland when Michael got burned to come and extract him.”

His character is so far looking to be a good ally.

“They have a really pretty rock solid past which will be tested now,’’ adds McGinley, who was born in New York and raised in New Jersey.

How did McGinley get involved with Burn Notice? The story goes the show’s casting agent was looking for a “John McGinley type.” When the veteran character actor heard this, he made sure to get on the horn. “You’re looking for me? I’m right here!”

Fortunate thing. McGinley, also seen in the cubicle classic Office Space and Stone’s Platoon and Wall Street, had no problem stepping onto the Burn Notice set as a guest star in its sixth season.

“Joining a show that’s been on six years is much easier than joining a new show,’’ he says. “It’s a well oiled machine right now. The writing is getting tighter and tighter. They’ve really found their groove and to come into that is as good as it gets. You don’t have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.”

Next up, McGinley will travel to Georgia to join Harrison Ford in 42, a big-screen biopic on baseball legend Jackie Robinson (the title comes from his jersey number). John will play colorful radio announcer Walter “Red” Barber, who gave play by play coverage of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ games. Ford is the executive who signs Jackie.

McGinley, a diehard New York Yankees fan, can’t wait to start. “I’m a baseball freak,’’ he admits.

Then it’s back to his wife Nichole and two girls, 2 and 4. He also has a 14-year-old son from a previous relationship. Max was born with Down Syndrome, and McGinley is a major supporter of the special needs community. One of his big goals right now is making sure the word “retard” is retired from the English language.

“I’m a homebody. If I’m not working I’m with my family being a dad.”

Being a father in your 50s to two adorable tykes can be exhausting. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that he and his wife don’t get Me Time at night.

“I make sure to run them hard. I’ve got them on the trampoline, I’ve got them on bikes, we’re down at the beach, on the swings,’’ he says of the little girls’ active schedule. “’Coz after dinner, you’re going down!”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/09/2884724/john-c-mcginley-burn-notice-a.html#storylink=cpy

John C one of the best actors never nominated for an Emmy, according to warmingglow.com

http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/07/the-10-best-tv-actors-never-be-nominated-an-emmy/#page/2

Exciting new trailer for "Alex Cross" hits the web.

You can see John in here briefly.  Who knew Tyler Perry could do action?  I'm pretty excited for this one.

Burn Notice airs tomorrow night.

Just a reminder that the new season of Burn Notice starts tomorrow night (Thursday), 9PM on USA Network.  John will be joining the cast as the mentor to the main character. I'm not sure how many episodes he will be in, but he'll be a great addition to the cast.  I've watched the show for the first 3 seasons, but missed the last two.

I'll definitely be tuning in for this.  It's been a while since John had an action role.

http://www.myfoxla.com/story/18766286/john-c-mcginley-gets-his-burn-notice

John joins cast of Jackie Robinson biopic.

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John C. McGinley has joined the cast of "42," the Jackie Robinson biopic from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.

McGinley will play the role of Red Barber, the iconic radio broadcaster for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The film, starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Bosman, will open next April 12, three days before the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson Day.

"42" was written and will be directed by Brian Helgeland, with Thomas Tull producing. Principal photography will begin later this month in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Atlanta.

To film "42," McGinley will commute from Miami, where he is currently lensing a recurring role in USA Network's "Burn Notice." He recently wrapped production on the comedy feature "Get a Job," portraying the boss on an equities trader floor, and will next be seen in Summit Entertainment's "Alex Cross."

McGinley is repped by UTA and attorney Kevin Morris of Morris, Yorn, Barnes & Levine.

John to be on Burn Notice this summer!

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It's about time to start investigating what the "Burn Notice" espionage operatives will be up to when they return later this year.

Season 6 of the USA show arrives this summer, and though no exact return date has been set, the show has already begun lining up notable guest stars.

The Huffington Post can exclusively reveal that John C. McGinley, best known as Dr. Perry Cox on "Scrubs," will have a recurring role in the new season of "Burn Notice" as Tom Card, the CIA training officer who taught Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) everything he knows.

When Tom and Michael cross paths again, Tom is extremely keen to work with his old protege again; the two weren't in touch after Michael was burned, but Tom always supported Michael's quest to be vindicated and reinstated. And working with Tom could have serious advantages for the formerly burned Miami spy: Not only is Michael's former training officer extremely adept at intelligence gathering and analysis, his influence at the Agency means that he might be able to help Michael recapture the respect he had before he was burned by an evil cabal years earlier.

McGinley will make his first appearance in the second episode of Season 6, which will also feature an appearance from Taryn Manning, a.k.a. Cherry on "Sons of Anarchy." Her character, Nicole, is in prison alongside Fiona, who went to the slammer at the end of the previous season of "Burn Notice." Nicole, like many of Manning's characters, is a tough chick; but the low-profile inmate is also friendly and helpful to Fi, who is no shrinking violet herself but no doubt needs as many allies as she can get on the inside.

Also appearing in the second episode of the new season of "Burn Notice" is Anthony Ruivivar as a Mexican drug cartel kingpin named Montero, who is a bit of a wild card. The episode will be directed by Jeffrey Donovan, who previously directed a Season 4 "Burn Notice" episode as well as the prequel movie "The Fall of Sam Axe."

Two predictions: Season 6 of "Burn Notice" will arrive in June or July, which is when every other season of the show has premiered; and McGinley's character will not call Michael Westen by a girl's name, which was one of Perry Cox's favorite ways of annoying Dr. John Dorian on "Scrubs." "Burn Notice" certainly has its lighter moments, but the odds are that feminine nicknames would not go over well with Westen, one of TV's most tightly-wound espionage agents.

Pictures of John from his Camp Counselor days.

I had come across these years ago, but forgot to save the link.

John was a camp counselor for Camp Tecumseh in the late 70's. You can see some photos of him from the year 1978 starting with this page:

http://tecumsehalumni.net/archives/t78c.htm

You can also see him second row right in the center here:

http://tecumsehalumni.net/archives/camp76.htm