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John Heard
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Actor Born: March 7, 1946 in Washington, DC Biography:A veteran of Chicago's free-form Organic Theatre, the boyish, personable "John Heard" won the Theatre World Award for his performance in the 1976 play "Streamers", and two years later was the recipient of the Obie Award for two separate off-Broadway productions. He made his film bow as the harried correspondent for an underground newspaper in "Joan Micklin Silver"'s "Between the Lines". In Silver's 1979 "Head Over Heels", Heard again received top billing, this time as the obsessive ex-lover of "Mary Beth Hurt". One of his first "mainstream" leading roles was in "Paul Schrader"'s erotic thriller "Cat People" (1981). Heard was agreeable, if a little bullheaded, as "Macaulay Culkin"'s dad in the two "Home Alone" films; less agreeable was his portrayal of "Tom Hanks"' abrasive business rival in "Big" (1988) On television, Heard was seen as the tormented Reverend Dimmesdale opposite "Meg Foster"'s Hester... Full Biography
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