Jay Patterson
- Birthday
- Aug 22, 1954
- Birthplace
- Cincinnati, Ohio
Bio: A hulking, imposing blond stage actor, Jay Patterson has also turned in a number of good supporting performances on film and TV. He began acting professionally in the late 1970s, doing Shakespeare and such modern shows as "The Taking of Miss Janie" and "Of Mice and Men" (as Lenny), in Minneapolis, Chicago and Cincinnati. Moving to New York in 1980, Patterson… More Bio: A hulking, imposing blond stage actor, Jay Patterson has also turned in a number of good supporting performances on film and TV. He began acting professionally in the late 1970s, doing Shakespeare and such modern shows as "The Taking of Miss Janie" and "Of Mice and Men" (as Lenny), in Minneapolis, Chicago and Cincinnati. Moving to New York in 1980, Patterson studied with Terry Schreiber. This came in handy in 1983 when a last-minute replacement was needed for a co-star in the Broadway show "K2" which Schreiber was directing. Patterson made a critical hit as one of two climbers stranded atop the titular mountain. Patterson has remained active in the theater, appearing in a Los Angeles production of one-act plays as recently as 1994.Patterson's film debut came with a small supporting role in Robert Benton's Depression drama "Places in the Heart" (1984). While not prolific on film, the actor has worked fairly steadily. He had was one of the brothers tormenting the students in the Catholic school-set "Heaven Help Us" (1984), did a bit part in Louis Malle's "Alamo Bay" (1985), played an assistant D.A. in the drama "Street Smart" (1987) and also had supporting roles in Benton's comedy "Nadine" (1987), the 1988 remake of "D.O.A." and the huge hit "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990), as a publisher and father of a kidnap victim. His largest film role to date was as a surgeon who reunites with his old Vietnam unit to take on drug dealers in "McBain" (1991). Smaller roles followed in "Highway 61" (1992) and Robert Benton's "Nobody's Fool" (1994).Patterson began showing up on TV in the late 1980s with guest roles, mostly on soap operas (i.e., "Another World", "One Life to Live") and crime-related shows like "Miami Vice", "Law & Order", "L.A. Law" and "Murder, She Wrote". His first TV-movie appearance was in a tiny role in the Civil War drama "Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom" (PBS, 1985). This was followed by larger supporting roles in the dramas "Margaret Bourke-White" (TNT, 1989), in which he played publisher Henry Luce opposite Farrah Fawcett, "Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy" (HBO, 1989), the crime thriller "Double Jeopardy" (Showtime, 1992) and "Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7" (CBS, 1993).
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Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
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Gracie (2007)
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Death of a President (2006)
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Love, Ludlow (2004)
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Excessive Force 2 (1995)
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Jay Patterson Videos
Double Jeopardy
1 minutes 44 seconds
Nice Guy Johnny
3 minutes 38 seconds
Gracie
2 minutes 15 seconds
Death Of A President
1 minutes 52 seconds
Nobody's Fool
17 seconds
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