John Billingsley (/ˈbɪlɪŋɡzli/, born May 20, 1960)[1] is an American actor best known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
John Billingsley | |
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 Billingsley at the 2009 Big Apple Convention | |
| Born | May 20, 1960 |
| Alma mater | Bennington College |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Spouse | Bonita Friedericy |
Early life and education
editBillingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania, and subsequently lived in Huntsville, Alabama, and Slidell, Louisiana, before his family settled in Weston, Connecticut.[2]
He graduated from Bennington College in 1982.[3][4]
Career
editEarly work
editBillingsley's first on-screen role was in 1991 as a difficult customer making a return in a customer service training video produced by Nintendo of America.[5] He made an appearance in "It Happened in Juneau", a third-season episode of the TV comedy-drama Northern Exposure, playing a patient treated by Marilyn.
Billingsley subsequently appeared in The X-Files episode "Three of a Kind", as a friend of the Lone Gunmen who turns out to be a government spy. He played Bill Gates in a sketch on Seattle comedy show Almost Live!. One of Billingsley's earliest film roles was in the 2001 made-for-television historical drama Just Ask My Children, in which he played corrupt lawyer Andrew Gines.
2000s
editBillingsley played Dr. John Fallow in a West Wing episode that featured the Gall–Peters projection map (season 2, episode 16). He was cast as Professor Miles Ballard in the short-lived television series The Others; then as the Denobulan Doctor Phlox in the fifth live-action Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise, which ran for four seasons. He also played himself in an episode of Roswell that used the Enterprise set. He also starred in the independent film Breathing Hard (2000) in the same year. In 2002, he was a guest star in an episode of Stargate SG-1, playing a scientist who is also a Trekkie, "worshipping at the altar of Roddenberry". He played a supporting role in the 2003 thriller Out of Time as medical examiner and best friend to the chief of police, played by Denzel Washington.
Billingsley is well known to fans of the series Cold Case for his guest appearance in the show's second season, playing serial killer George Marks, the only killer on the show to get away with murder. He reprised the role in the season finale, in which Marks was killed. He also appeared as a blunt-force victim in the first season of Six Feet Under, in the episode "The New Person".
Billingsley appeared in the first season of the series Prison Break as the mysterious Terrence Steadman, brother of the Vice President, whose death is faked to frame Lincoln Burrows for murder. Soon after, he was cast as a regular on the series The Nine. This left him unable to continue his role as Steadman, and he was replaced in the role by Jeff Perry. In 2005, he played the voice of Trask in Ultimate Spider-Man. In November 2006, Billingsley portrayed William Bradford on two episodes of the podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. In May 2007 he appeared on NCIS as a blind photographer in the episode, "In The Dark". He appeared in the seventh season of 24 as a recurring character. On October 8, 2007, he also made a guest appearance on Journeyman as Alan Platt. Billingsley played Prof. Harry, a biologist, in the 2007 independent science fiction film The Man from Earth, as well as the 2017 sequel ‘’The Man from Earth: Holocene’’. He also made a guest appearance in an October 2007 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and in 2006 on the spinoff series CSI: NY.
Billingsley appeared as Jacob Nolston in "Crash Into Me", a two-part, fourth-season episode of the TV drama Grey's Anatomy.
Billingsley and his wife have also appeared as themselves on the HGTV series My House Is Worth What?, in which a real estate expert toured their home and provided commentary for viewers before providing an appraisal.
In 2008, Billingsley had a supporting role in several episodes of the HBO series True Blood as coroner Mike Spencer. In May of that year, he guest starred as John Harris, the father of the Kiss-Me-Not Killer, in "Never Tell", an episode of Women's Murder Club.
He appeared in the disaster film 2012, which was released on November 13, 2009, as Professor Frederic West, an American scientist. He subsequently appeared on the ABC series Scrubs in December 2009.
2010s
editIn August 2010, Billingsley guest starred in an episode of the TNT series Leverage as Coswell, the head of security at the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities. In November that year he guest starred as amateur psychic Ellis Mars in "Red Moon", an episode of The Mentalist.
In February 2011 Billingsley played Gidger in the Richard Greenberg's play The Violet Hour in Los Angeles.[6] In August 2011, Billingsley starred in an episode of the USA Network drama Suits as the company accountant who is being released for never finishing university.
In October 2012 Billingsley starred in the film Trade of Innocents alongside Dermot Mulroney and Mira Sorvino.[7]
On February 12, 2013, a web comedy video was released on Yahoo! Screens under the title "Forwarders" that featured Billingsley as an Dr. Alan Cooper, a psychologist and expert on compulsive e-mail forwarding.[8] That same year he completed filming of the independent film Red Line.[9]
On January 7, 2014, CBS television premiered the science fiction drama Intelligence, on which Billingsley played Dr. Shenandoah Cassidy, the inventor of an implantable microchip that acts as an interface between a human mind and electronic devices.[10]
In November 2014, Billingsley guest-starred in the CBS crime drama series, Hawaii Five-0, playing lawyer Eugene Goodman in the Season 5 episode, "Ka Hana Malu".
In May 2015, Billingsley appeared in the second season of the AMC period drama, Turn: Washington's Spies, playing Samuel Townsend, father of American Revolutionary spy, Robert Townsend. He later returned to the role for the third season.
In July 2017, he appeared as Doctor Ben in the Showtime revival of Twin Peaks.
Personal life
editBillingsley is married to fellow actor Bonita Friedericy.[2][11][12] She first became interested in him after seeing him perform in a stage production of Great Expectations.[13] Friedericy appeared with Billingsley in "Regeneration", a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise in which she played Rooney.[14] The couple has subsequently appeared in other productions together.[15]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Shredder Orpheus | Linus | |
| 2001 | Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles | Barry | |
| 2001 | Just Ask My Children | Andrew Gines | |
| 2001 | The Glass House | Driving Instructor | |
| 2002 | High Crimes | Lie Detector Coach | |
| 2003 | Out of Time | Chae | |
| 2004 | A Cinderella Story | Mr. Rothman | |
| 2005 | The 12 Dogs of Christmas | Dogcatcher Doyle | |
| 2006 | Room 6 | Harrison McKendrick | |
| 2007 | The Man from Earth | Harry | |
| 2008 | The Last Word | Brady | |
| 2008 | The Least of These | Father Alfred McKavee | |
| 2009 | 2012 | Professor Frederick West | |
| 2011 | Losing Control | Professor Straub | |
| 2011 | Sironia | Doug | |
| 2012 | Trade of Innocents | Malcolm Eddery | |
| 2013 | Red Line | Sam | |
| 2016 | Madtown | Lloyd Zane Miller | |
| 2017 | The Man from Earth: Holocene | Harry | |
| 2022 | Emily the Criminal | Office manager | |
| 2023 | The Shift | Russo |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Northern Exposure | Patient | Episode: "It Happened in Juneau" |
| 1996 | Almost Live! | Bill Gates | Season 12, episode 11 |
| 1997 | NYPD Blue | Glenn Farley | Episode: "It Takes a Village" |
| 1998 | The Practice | Revenue Officer Robert Schmitt | Episode: "The Trial" |
| 1999 | The X-Files | Timothy "Timmy the Geek" Landau | Episode: "Three of a Kind" |
| 2000 | G vs E | Bill Kaplan | Episode: "Cougar Pines" |
| 2000 | Gilmore Girls | Mr. Remmy | Episode: "The Lorelais' First Day At Chilton" |
| 2000 | The Others | Professor Miles Ballard | 13 episodes |
| 2000 | Touched by an Angel | Peter Garfield | Episode: "Reasonable Doubt" |
| 2001 | The West Wing | Dr. John Fallow | Episode: "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" |
| 2001 | Roswell | Himself | Episode: "Secrets and Lies" |
| 2001–2005 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Dr. Phlox | 91 episodes |
| 2002 | NYPD Blue | Ryan Lipe | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Stargate SG-1 | Dr. Simon Coombs | Episode: "The Other Guys" |
| 2003 | Angel | Dr. Evan Royce | Episode: "Unleashed" |
| 2004 | Duck Dodgers | Dr. Psy-Q Hi | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 2004–2005 | Cold Case | George Marks | 2 episodes |
| 2006 | Prison Break | Terrence Steadman | 3 episodes |
| 2006 | The Closer | Tom Newman | Episode: "Aftertaste" |
| 2006–2007; 2009 | The Nine | Egan Foote | 13 episodes |
| 2006 | Dead and Deader | Langdon | Television film |
| 2007 | NCIS | Jackson Scott | Episode: "In the Dark" |
| 2007 | Ghost Whisperer | Mike | Episode: “Children of Ghosts” |
| 2007 | Grey's Anatomy | Jacob Nolston | 2 episodes |
| 2007 | CSI | Paul Cydon | Episode: "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp" |
| 2008–2012 | True Blood | Coroner Mike Spencer | 17 episodes |
| 2008 | Eli Stone | Daniel Foote | Episode: "Waiting for That Day" |
| 2008 | Without a Trace | Harry | Episode: "Rewind" |
| 2008 | Fear Itself | Phil | Episode: "Community" |
| 2009 | Criminal Minds | Hugh Rollins | Episode: "A Shade of Gray" |
| 2009 | 24 | Michael Latham | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Leverage | Head of Security | Episode: "The Rashamon Job" |
| 2010 | The Mentalist | Ellis Mars | Episode: "Red Moon" |
| 2011–2014 | Suits | Stan Jacobson | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | Dr. Henklefust | Voice, episode: "The Night the Clown Cried II: Tears of Doom!" |
| 2013 | Southland | uncredited | Episode: "Under the Big Top" |
| 2013 | Nikita | Heidecker | Episode: "Brave New World" |
| 2014 | Bones | Dr. Edward Harkness | Episode: "The Corpse at the Convention" |
| 2014 | Intelligence | Dr. Shenendoah Cassidy | 11 episodes |
| 2014 | Hawaii Five-O | Eugene Goodman | 1 episode |
| 2015–2016 | Turn: Washington's Spies | Samuel Townsend | 6 episodes |
| 2016–2017 | Stitchers | Mitchell Blair | 5 episodes |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks | Dr. Ben | Episode: "Part 10" |
| 2017 | Lucifer | Alvin | Episode: "Off the Record" |
| 2018 | This Is Us | Bill Weston | Episode "Katie Girls" |
| 2019 | The Orville | Cambis Borrin | Episode: "Home" |
| 2019 | The Rookie | Kevin Scott | Episode: "Heartbreak" |
| 2019 | The Resident | Dr. Stewart | Episode: "If Not Now, When?" |
| 2020 | Homecoming | Buddy | Episode: "People" |
| 2021 | Station 19 | Lloyd | Episode: "Here It Comes Again" |
| 2022 | Pam & Tommy | Bruce Hendricks | Episode: "Pamela in Wonderland" |
| 2022 | NCIS: Hawaiʻi | Professor Staggs | Episode: "Prisoners' Dilemma" |
| 2023 | The Good Doctor | Kurt | Episode: "A Beautiful Day" |
| 2024 | Manhunt | Edward Bates | Episode: "Let The Sheep Flee" |
| 2024 | Grotesquerie | Dr. Lehman | 2 episodes |
| 2024 | Matlock | Robert Walton | Episode: "The Rabbit and the Hawk" |
| 2024 | Based on a True Story | Wendy Jenkins's boss | Episode: "Y'all Ready for This?" |
Video games
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Ultimate Spider-Man | Bolivar Trask | |
| 2006 | Superman Returns | Metallo, additional voices |
References
edit- ^ Olsen, Mark (September 7, 2003). "This leading-man wannabe is happy to have a TV role in reserve". Los Angeles Times.
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- ^ a b "Theater: Guest Artist Bios: John Billingsley". oxy.edu. Occidental College. October 4, 2012. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013.
- ^ "Intelligence Cast: John Billingsley". CBS. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
- ^ "John Billingsley: Bio". Trademark Talent. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
- ^ Randy Cornetta (February 3, 2009), Nintendo Training 1991, archived from the original on December 12, 2021, retrieved January 1, 2017
- ^ Anthony, Darin (February 9, 2011). "Now Is the Hour for All Good Artists". LA Stage Times.
- ^ Savage, Sohpia (August 23, 2012). "'Trade of Innocents' Chosen for Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative". IndieWire.
- ^ "Forwarders". Yahoo! Screens. February 12, 2013.
- ^ "John Billingsley Remembers Dear Doctor". StarTrek.com. January 23, 2013.
- ^ "Intelligence Cast". CBS. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
- ^ "John Billingsley and Bonita Friedericy Interview Part 2". startrek.com. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ "John Billingsley". Star Trek Cruise. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ Winert, Laura (July 28, 2004). "ACTORS' DIALOGUE - Bonita Friedericy & John Billingsley". Backstage.
- ^ "Regeneration". Star Trek: Enterprise. Season 2. Episode 23. May 7, 2003. UPN.
- ^ "Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley and Bonita Friedericy Star in New Audio Drama to Benefit 'A World Fit For Kids'". PR Newswire. November 18, 2010.
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