Ted McGinley
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Newport Beach, California, USA
Dividing his time more or less equally between big- and small-screen work, actor Ted McGinley enjoyed a considerably successful tenure as a character player, almost always appearing as beefcake heartthrob types. He began his career in the early '80s, with small roles in Garry Marshall's satirical farce Young Doctors in Love (1982) and the lurid Joan Collins telemovie Making of a Male Model (1983), but achieved his first significant break in the sitcom venue, as English teacher-cum-basketball coach Roger Phillips on the final four seasons of Happy Days (1980-1984). Fortuitously, at about the same time that Days folded, the producers of The Love Boat (on the same network, ABC) tapped McGinley to play photographer Ace Evans -- a last-ditch attempt to save the program from sagging ratings. The strategy ultimately failed when Boat ended its lengthy run in 1986, but in the meantime, McGinley landed what became a recurring role as jock Stan in the first three installments of Revenge of the Nerds. Eventually, McGinley also joined the cast of the long-running Married...With Children from 1991 through 1997, playing chauvinistic layabout Jefferson D'Arcy (second husband of the Bundys' neighbor Marcy Rhoades), and essayed roles in theatrical films including Physical Evidence (1989), Wayne's World 2 (1993), and Dick (1999). The late '90s and 2000s found McGinley evincing a heightened presence in television once again, first on Aaron Sorkin's critically worshipped yet short-lived seriocomedy Sports Night (1998-1999), then as Charley Shanowski on the sitcom Hope & Faith (2003-2006). In 2008 he competed in the reality program Dancing With the Stars, and in 2010 he appeared in the lighthearted, family-friendly Christmas with a Capital C. He would reach pop-culture immortality when the website Jumping the Shark named him as one of the signs that a TV show has run out of ideas.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Christmas Reservations |
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— | 2019 |
10% | God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Deus não está morto - Uma luz na escuridão |
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— | 2018 |
56% | The Outcasts |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Fatherly Obsession |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Karen Kingsbury's 'The Bridge Part 2' |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Karen Kingsbury's 'The Bridge' |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | El Puente |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Underdog Kids |
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— | 2015 |
25% | Do You Believe? |
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$9.2M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Rescuing Madison |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Redeemed |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Bad Behavior |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | A Mother's Rage |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Notes from the Heart Healer |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Christmas With A Capital C |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Taking a Chance on Love |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Eavesdrop |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Note |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Frozen Impact |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Daybreak |
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— | 2001 |
24% | Pearl Harbor |
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$197.8M | 2001 |
56% | The Big Tease |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Face the Music |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Hostage Hotel |
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— | 1999 |
71% | Dick |
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— | 1999 |
21% | Major League: Back to the Minors |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Every Mother's Worst Fear |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Follow Your Heart |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Wild Justice |
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— | 1994 |
60% | Wayne's World 2 |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Linda |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Blue Tornado |
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— | 1991 |
25% | Troop Beverly Hills |
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— | 1989 |
22% | Physical Evidence |
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— | 1989 |
69% | Revenge of the Nerds |
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— | 1984 |
27% | Young Doctors in Love |
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— | 1982 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Hawaii Five-0
2010-2020
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88% |
No Tomorrow
2016-2017
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82% |
Castle
2009-2016
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No Score Yet |
The 4 To 9ers Reloaded
2013
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No Score Yet |
The Mentalist
2008-2015
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56% |
Breaking In
2011-2012
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No Score Yet |
Melissa & Joey
2010-2015
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No Score Yet |
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007-2012
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No Score Yet |
Dancing With the Stars
2005
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No Score Yet |
'Til Death
2006-2010
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No Score Yet |
Hope & Faith
2003-2006
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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75% |
The West Wing
1999-2006
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0% |
Work With Me
1999
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90% |
Sports Night
1998-2000
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No Score Yet |
Married...With Children
1987-1997
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No Score Yet |
Dynasty
1981-1989
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No Score Yet |
The Transformers
1984-1987
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No Score Yet |
Happy Days
1974-1984
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Quotes from Ted McGinley's Characters
Burke: | Let's get those nerds! |
Stan: | Nerds! |
Ogre: | NEEEEERRRRDS! |