John Wesley Shipp

John Wesley Shipp

Born: January 22, 1955
in Norfolk, Virginia, USA
John Wesley Shipp (born January 22, 1955) is an American actor known for his various television roles. He played the lead Barry Allen on CBS's superhero series The Flash from 1990 to 1991, and Mitch Leery, the title character's father, on the drama series Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2001. Shipp has also played several roles in daytime soap operas including Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from 1980 to 1984, and Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns from 1985 to 1986 (which earned him his first Daytime Emmy Award). In 2014, he was cast as Barry Allen's father Henry on the current The Flash series on The CW network.

Movies for John Wesley Shipp...

The Flash: Saga of the Scarlet Speedster
Title: The Flash: Saga of the Scarlet Speedster
Character: Self
Released: July 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Short documentary about The Flash from comic book creation to film and television hero.
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Title: DC's Stargirl
Character: Jay Garrick / The Flash
Released: May 18, 2020
Type: TV
Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.
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Night Sweats
Title: Night Sweats
Character: Nick Frankenthaler
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
A skateboarder investigating the mysterious death of his roommate is led into the inner workings of a self-help company, and the pharmaceutical lab behind it.
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Ruby Herring Mysteries: Her Last Breath
Title: Ruby Herring Mysteries: Her Last Breath
Character: John Herring
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Ruby and Detective Killian investigate a suspicious fatal car accident. With their yin and yang relationship, they solve the case, until Ruby finds new evidence that they may have it all wrong. Stars Taylor Cole and Stephen Huszar
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The Sector
Title: The Sector
Character: Stillwell
Released: July 5, 2016
Type: Movie
In a dystopian world, a bounty hunter sets out to capture a ruthless band of outlaws who have kidnapped an important father and daughter through a world of multiverses. Unbeknownst to the Outlaws and the Bounty Hunter is that another, more powerful man known only as The Finisher has plans of his own.
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Sensory Perception
Title: Sensory Perception
Character: Lt. Thawne
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Sensory Perception is a sci-fi, feature length drama about Jeremy Jacobs, a "recovering" drug addict struggling to get his life back together. Things get even harder for him when he begins to have visions of an apocalyptic future. Stalked by strange messages and shadowy figures, he is persuaded that there's a way to avert this future disaster. Although, fighting through addiction, paranoia, and skepticism, he finds it difficult to convince anyone, even himself, that we can change.
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Title: Supergirl
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash (Earth 90) (archive footage)
Released: October 26, 2015
Type: TV
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.
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Title: Supergirl
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash (Earth 90)
Released: October 26, 2015
Type: TV
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.
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Golden Shoes
Title: Golden Shoes
Character: The President of the United States
Released: October 6, 2015
Type: Movie
With his father MIA at war and his mother critical in hospital, a young boy consoles himself with dreams of playing in the youth soccer league. To do so, he must overcome the adult deception, the bullying and his solitude.
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Title: Blindspot
Character: Dr. Katz
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: TV
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
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Title: The Flash
Character: Jay Garrick / The Flash
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: TV
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
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Title: The Flash
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash (Earth 90)
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: TV
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
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Title: The Flash
Character: Henry Allen
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: TV
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
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Title: Arrow
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash (Earth 90)
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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Hell and Mr Fudge
Title: Hell and Mr Fudge
Character: Bennie Lee Fudge
Released: July 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Hell and Mr. Fudge is an 2012 American drama film directed by Jeff Wood and written by Brian Phillip Stoddard. Based on a true story, the film stars Mackenzie Astin as Edward Fudge, an Alabama preacher who has been hired to determine the existence of hell.
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Title: Teen Wolf
Character: Mr. Lahey
Released: June 5, 2011
Type: TV
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.
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Separation Anxiety
Title: Separation Anxiety
Character: Mr. Palmer
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Separation Anxiety traces the friendship of three twenty-something childhood pals, Quinn, Jess, and Bailey on the morning of Bailey's funeral. As the people who loved Bailey the most grapple with the possibility that his fatal accident might have been something more purposeful, flashbacks from the last days of Bailey Palmer begin to unravel what was really going on. Quinn and Jess find themselves forced to deal with truths they aren't ready to face, about Bailey and each other.
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Port City
Title: Port City
Character: George
Released: October 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Life in Wilmington, North Carolina is pretty slow for David until he starts having a fling with a mysterious older woman. To make life even more complicated David's sister Nancy, and co-worker Jeanne have problems of their own that they share with David. Nancy is fighting of the unwanted affections of two men. Meanwhile, Jeanne must contend her deadbeat husband. And on top of it all, David has a gay roommate who he incorrectly thinks, is trying to start an affair with him, not to mention a trailer park hit man.
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Title: Drop Dead Diva
Character: Doug Bailey
Released: July 12, 2009
Type: TV
A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
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Title: Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Character: Professor Zoom (voice)
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: TV
The Caped Crusader is teamed up with Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Aquaman and countless others in his quest to uphold justice.
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Karma Police
Title: Karma Police
Character: Barrington Freeman
Released: April 6, 2008
Type: Movie
What if a worldwide secret organization existed and you were recruited to join? That's what happens to Charles West when he's recruited to join the Karma Police. He loves it...but is making sure that good people are rewarded and bad people punished all that it seems to be?
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Christie's Revenge
Title: Christie's Revenge
Character: Ray Colton
Released: June 24, 2007
Type: Movie
After years of plotting, Christie vows to get revenge on her uncle, whom she blames for her father's demise.
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Title: The Closer
Character: Chris Conroy
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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Starcrossed
Title: Starcrossed
Character: Father
Released: April 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Patrick Quinn
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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Second to Die
Title: Second to Die
Character: Jim
Released: April 23, 2002
Type: Movie
Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband ...
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Road Rage
Title: Road Rage
Character: Jim Carson
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Ellen Carson is a real estate agent who inadvertently cuts off a delivery truck driver while changing lanes on the freeway to hurry home. The truck driver turns out to be a disturbed man named Eddie Madden, who proceeds to chase after Ellen in an effort to run her off the road. Ellen in fear calls the 1-800 number on the back of his truck and lodges a complaint, which causes Eddie to lose his job, and he (being a grieving husband and father who earlier lost his family to a car accident) sets out to destroy Ellen's family and soon becomes fixated on Ellen and her teenage stepdaughter Cynthia and plots to have them as replacement family, by removing the head of the house, Ellen's husband and Cynthia's father Jim Carson.
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Title: Dawson's Creek
Character: Mitch Leery
Released: January 20, 1998
Type: TV
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
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Lost Treasure of Dos Santos
Title: Lost Treasure of Dos Santos
Character: Jack
Released: April 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Shaw, an inveterate explorer and Willa, the headstrong daughter of a famous archaeologist, team up to search for a lost treasure described in an old journal. However, things don't go according to plan as Shaw and his team are tracked through the mountains by Stark who has his own ideas about the fate of the gold.
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Deadly Web
Title: Deadly Web
Character: Dr. Stanton
Released: April 15, 1996
Type: Movie
A divorced mother (Gigi Rice) is targeted by an on-line stalker known as Cybergod, and she teams with an ex-cop (Ed Marinaro) to track down the maniac.
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Title: JAG
Character: Granger
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Title: JAG
Character: Marcus Sutter
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Coach Peter Shotwell
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Soft Deceit
Title: Soft Deceit
Character: John Hobart
Released: February 16, 1995
Type: Movie
An attractive cop is assigned the task of tracing millions of dollars of stolen church funds. The thief, is locked up in prison, and the plan is to break him out, and follow him to the hidden money. When she falls for the convict, things get complicated. The ex-boyfriend cop is jealous and suspicious.
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Green Dolphin Beat
Title: Green Dolphin Beat
Character: Terry Lattner
Released: June 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Two cops try to solve the murder of a former prostitute while fighting for their jobs in a crime-ridden precinct of a Northwestern city.
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The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
Title: The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.
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Baby of the Bride
Title: Baby of the Bride
Character: Dennis
Released: December 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Soon after returning from their honeymoon, John and Margaret Hix receive the surprise of their life - at 53, Margaret is pregnant! Against her husband's wishes, Margaret decides to keep the baby... but she isn't the only one in the family who is expecting. Margaret's daughter, Mary, who has just left the convent, is due just a few months before her mother.
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The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster
Title: The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash
Released: September 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Every super hero has his nemesis - and this time Flash has that murderous mischief maker the Trickster
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Title: Sisters
Character: Lucky Williams
Released: May 11, 1991
Type: TV
Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.
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The Danger Team
Title: The Danger Team
Character: Spex (voice)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A budding detective solves crimes with the help of three stop-motion animated clay characters.
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The Flash
Title: The Flash
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash
Released: November 4, 1990
Type: Movie
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
Title: The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
Character: Barney
Released: October 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.
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The Flash
Title: The Flash
Character: Barry Allen / The Flash
Released: September 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
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Title: The Flash
Character: Barry Allen / Flash
Released: September 20, 1990
Type: TV
When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.
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Title: Prisoners of Gravity
Character: Self
Released: August 21, 1989
Type: TV
Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books — and its relation to various thematic and social issues. Produced by TVOntario, the show was the brainchild of former comic retail manager Mark Askwith and writer Daniel Richler, and was hosted by Rick Green. The series aired 139 episodes over 5 seasons from 1989 to 1994.
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Summer Fantasy
Title: Summer Fantasy
Character: Callahan
Released: May 25, 1984
Type: Movie
After graduating high school, Carrie needs something to do for the summer. She goes to lifeguard try-outs and gets the job. In this hot Los Angeles summer, she will fall desperately in love with a much older lifeguard.