John Heard (actor)

John Heard Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat, Cutter’s Way, Cat People, C. H. U. D. and Beaches. Heard also played the role of Peter McCallister, the father of protagonist Kevin McCAllister, in Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

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Summary John Heard (actor)John Heard Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat, Cutter’s Way, Cat People, C. H. U. D. and Beaches. Heard also played the role of Peter McCallister, the father of protagonist Kevin McCAllister, in Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest starring on The Sopranos. Heard appeared off-Broadway in 1974 in Mark Medoff’s play The Wager and in 1975 as Guildenstern in Hamlet at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. He won Obie Awards for his performances in Othello and Split in 1979–80. Heard starred with Bette Midler in Beaches.

In 1990 Heard starred in the philosophical film Mindwalk, in which three characters from different socialitical and poetical backgrounds express their opinions on the human experience. He starred with Samuel L. Jackson in 1997’s One Eight Seven and was featured in the 2000 miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town. Heard featured in a television production of The Scarlet Letter as real-life Ku Klux Klan leader Arthur Dimmesdale. He also had roles as the troubled corrupt detective Vinazio Detrolio, DetrolIO, in the TV miniserie Cross of Detrol, as well as Mr Detrolios’ father, Mr Finnio, in Detrol.