Johnathon Schaech
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Edgewood, Maryland, USA
Tall, dark, and very handsome, Johnathon Schaech has all of the physical attributes one would expect of a leading man. Despite his appearance, however, Schaech has eluded true stardom, appearing in films that allow him to showcase his talent without providing the opportunity for the actor to make a solid splash in the mainstream.Born in Edgewood, MD, in 1969, Schaech was a model before being cast in his first role, in a 1993 film called The Webbers. Co-starring David Arquette and Jennifer Tilly, the film was mired in obscurity, much like Schaech's next effort, Franco Zefferelli's Storia Di Una Capinera or Sparrows (1993). It was director Gregg Araki who gave Schaech his first real break, when he cast him as a dangerous, perpetually aroused drifter in his 1995 film The Doom Generation. Ecstatically bad-mannered and filled with an abundance of sex, violence, and severed heads, the film became something of a cult classic and gave Schaech a limited dose of fame. The scope of his fame was widened a little bit with his next significant picture, How to Make an American Quilt (1995). As one of the token Y-chromosome bearers in a virtually all-female cast, Schaech made a favorable impression with many filmgoers in his role as Winona Ryder's lifeguard suitor. His notices were favorable enough to get him a leading part in Tom Hanks' 1996 film That Thing You Do! and the title role of the made-for-cable Houdini (1998). Along with these relative successes came the requisite flops, among them 1997's Welcome to Woop Woop, which featured a memorably bizarre title and little else, and Hush (1998), in which Schaech played the son of a completely crackers Jessica Lange. In 1999, Schaech had another shot at cult stardom when he again collaborated with Araki on Splendor, which had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. The same year, he was also cast in the Jennifer Love Hewitt series, Fox's The Time of Your Life.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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36% | The Night Clerk |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Blue Ridge |
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— | 2020 |
8% | Reprisal |
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— | 2018 |
13% | Day of the Dead: Bloodline |
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— | 2018 |
55% | Acts of Vengeance |
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— | 2017 |
44% | Jackals |
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— | 2017 |
3% | Arsenal |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Butterfly Caught |
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— | 2017 |
24% | Marauders |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Nocturna |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | The Culling |
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— | 2015 |
4% | Vice |
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— | 2015 |
0% | The Prince |
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— | 2014 |
5% | The Legend of Hercules |
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$14.8M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Flight 7500 |
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— | 2014 |
25% | Phantom |
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$1.1M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Breaking At The Edge |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Dark Circles |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Hidden Moon |
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— | 2012 |
34% | 5 Days Of War |
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$17.7k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2` |
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— | 2011 |
28% | Takers |
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$57.8M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Bone Deep |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Laid to Rest |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Sex and Lies in Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal |
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— | 2008 |
56% | Quarantine |
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$31.7M | 2008 |
7% | Prom Night |
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$43.9M | 2008 |
67% | Little Chenier |
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$44.9k | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Living Hell |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Poker Club |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Nora Roberts' Angels Fall |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Road House 2 |
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— | 2006 |
43% | Sea of Dreams |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 8MM 2 |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | James Patterson's 'Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas' |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Judas |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | They Shoot Divas, Don't They? |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Blood Crime |
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— | 2002 |
26% | The Sweetest Thing |
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$24.5M | 2002 |
33% | Kiss the Bride |
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— | 2002 |
58% | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog |
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— | 2002 |
7% | The Forsaken |
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$6.3M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Sol Goode |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Giving Tree |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | If You Only Knew |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Caracara |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Brutal Truth |
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— | 1999 |
58% | Splendor |
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— | 1999 |
40% | Finding Graceland |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | After Sex |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Brand New World |
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— | 1998 |
32% | Welcome to Woop Woop |
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— | 1998 |
12% | Hush |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Houdini |
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— | 1998 |
93% | That Thing You Do! |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Invasion of Privacy |
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— | 1996 |
47% | The Doom Generation |
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— | 1995 |
62% | How to Make an American Quilt |
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— | 1995 |
14% | Poison Ivy II |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Storia di una capinera (Sparrow) |
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— | 1993 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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72% |
Ray Donovan
2013
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87% |
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016-2020
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No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods
2010
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70% |
Quantico
2015-2018
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76% |
Sleepy Hollow
2013-2017
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57% |
Star-Crossed
2014
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68% |
The Client List
2012-2013
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Miami
2002-2012
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No Score Yet |
Cold Case
2003-2010
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63% |
Masters of Horror
2005-2007
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No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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45% |
Time of Your Life
1999-2000
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91% |
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
1993-1994
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Quotes from Johnathon Schaech's Characters
Amy Blue: | I'm so mad at you, I could rip your testicles off and staple them to your ankles. What the fuck did you have to go and tell Jordan for? |
Xavier Red: | Tell him what? |
Amy Blue: | What do you think, doorknob? That we got together! |
Xavier Red: | Well, didn't you utterly dig it? |
Amy Blue: | That is not the point! |
Xavier Red: | Well, what is the point then, get it? Guilt is for married, old people! |
Amy Blue: | You're incredible. You're not even human, are you? You're like a life-support system for a cock! |
Xavier Red: | You always have to be a pessimist, don't you? Little Miss Doom and Gloom. Well fuck you. |
Xavier Red: | What, mommy and daddy won't be all worried about their baby girl? |
Amy Blue: | My mom used to be a heroin addict, and now she's a Scientologist. |
Xavier Red: | Girls have no sense of adventure. |
Kit: | I've got an opening for a new girlfriend. What do you say? |
Megan: | Fuck you! |
Kit: | Oh, attitude. I like that in a girl. |
Kit: | Come to daddy, boys! |
Cym: | Look, I don't know why you can't just let this girl go. |
Kit: | Never mind that and just keep driving. |
Cym: | Well, why do you have to keep pursuing her. |
Kit: | It's unfinished business. |