John Billingsley

This article is about the American actor. For the British 18th century agriculturalist, see John Billingsley (agriculturist). For the voice actor, see Beau Billingslea.

John Billingsley
Billingsley at the 2009 Big Apple Convention
Born	(1960-05-20) May 20, 1960
Alma mater	Bennington College
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Bonita Friedericy

John Billingsley (/ˈbɪlɪŋɡzli/, born May 20, 1960) is an American actor best known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Early life and education

Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania, and subsequently lived in Huntsville, Alabama, and Slidell, Louisiana, before his family settled in Weston, Connecticut.

He graduated from Bennington College in 1982.

Career

Early work

Billingsley'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. 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

Billingsley 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

In 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. 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.

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. That same year he completed filming of the independent film Red Line.

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.

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

Billingsley is married to fellow actor Bonita Friedericy. She first became interested in him after seeing him perform in a stage production of Great Expectations. Friedericy appeared with Billingsley in "Regeneration", a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise in which she played Rooney. The couple has subsequently appeared in other productions together.

Filmography

Film

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

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

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Ultimate Spider-Man	Bolivar Trask
2006	Superman Returns	Metallo, additional voices

External links

• Official website
• John Billingsley at IMDb
• ‹The template AllMovie name is being considered for deletion.› John Billingsley at AllMovie