John Heard

ACTOR, PRODUCER, SOUNDTRACK

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

John Heard was a very talented actor who established himself as a respected thespian in the late 1970s and early '80s, though he is perhaps better known for his turn as Peter McCallister, Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin')s father in the Maman, j'ai raté l'avion ! (1990) movies.John was born in Washington, D.C., to Helen (Sperling), who acted in community theatre, and John Heard, who worked for the U.S. government. John established himself with roles in the movies Between the Lines (1977), Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) (a.k.a. "Head Over Heels"), and Heart Beat (1981) (in which he played Jack Kerouac to Nick Nolte's Neal Cassady and Sissy Spacek's Carolyn Cassady), before giving a tour de force performance as a hideously wounded (both physically and psychologically) Vietnam veteran in Cutter's Way (1981) (a.k.a. "Cutter and Bone") opposite Jeff Bridges. He also shined as Reverend Dimmesdale (one of America's first religious hypocrites) in the 1979 PBS version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1979).Both "Chilly Scenes of Winter" and Cutter's Way" (originally released as "Head Over Heels" and "Cutter and Bone", respectively) had been re-released under new titles after failing in their first go-rounds, such was the quality of the films. The two re-releases helped redefine the practice by which major studios handled smaller, art house quality pictures by releasing them carefully to select theaters with bespoke marketing campaigns so they reached the proper audience. (Studios would later develop their own art film-independent film subsidiaries to handle such pictures, so they didn't "fall through the cracks" like the first releases of the two Heard films.)By the early 1980s, Heard seemed on his way to establishing himself as a major American actor, if not on the path to movie stardom. At the time, there was joke that involved confusing Heard with John Hurt and William Hurt because of the similarity of their last names. At the time these contemporaries were considered equal in terms of their star power.In the early '80s, it would not have been unreasonable to predict that Heard would become an Oscar winner or a multiple nominee. He continued to work on A-List projects, playing the not-so-sympathetic son to Geraldine Page in Mémoires du Texas (1985) (for which Page won her own Oscar) and Tom Hanks's adult rival in Big (1988), but by the latter part of the decade he had failed to establish himself as a leading man and was playing supporting roles. Also appearing on television, he was nominated for an Emmy for his turn as a corrupt police detective on Les Soprano (1999).John Heard died on July 21, 2017, in Palo Alto, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of John Heard’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

John Heard on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1977 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of John Heard movies released per year from 2007 till 2018.

Top Genres

John Heard works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 45% of John Heard movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that John Heard worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that John Heard has worked on is 5.9.

5.9 / 10

John Heard's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Family
Home Alone (1990)

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

7.7/10103 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

With the news of his brothers death, Michael's world is turned upside down as he begins a journey of self-assessment, self-reflection, and self-discovery.

7.4/1087 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

7.4/10108 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,History
Too Big to Fail (2011)

Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

7.3/1099 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
Big (1988)

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.

7.3/10104 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

'If the truth sets you free, will it also bring you peace?' Charlie's bittersweet journey touches on our deepest questions of love, spirituality and what it really means to be a friend.

6.9/1082 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

A father recounts a dark period of his childhood when he and his little brother lived in the suburbs.

6.9/10114 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Beaches (1988)

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

6.9/10123 min

Available in 7 platform(s).