Johnathan Southworth “John” Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor, voice over artist and comedian perhaps best known for playing Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms Three’s Company and 8 Simple Rules, respectively. Don Knotts called him the “Greatest physical comedian on the planet”. Ritter’s final films Bad Santa, Clifford’s Really Big Movie and Stanley’s Dinosaur Round-Up were all dedicated in his memory.
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John Ritter Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Ritter |
| Also Know | Jonathan Southworth Ritter |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Burbank, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1948-09-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
| Deathday | 2003-09-11 |
John Ritter Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Problem Child | Ben | 1990-07-27 | Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he’s a little monster as he turns a camping … |
| Stay Tuned | Roy Knable | 1992-08-14 | Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to … |
| Skin Deep | Zachary Hutton | 1989-03-03 | Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer’s blo… |
| Problem Child 2 | Ben Healy | 1991-07-03 | Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben’s desire to date again and find a new mother for Junio… |
| Hero at Large | Steve Nichols | 1980-02-08 | An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a sup… |
| Americathon | President Chet Roosevelt | 1979-08-10 | In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent … |
| Clifford’s Really Big Movie | Clifford the Big Red Dog (voice) | 2004-04-23 | Fearing that he costs too much to feed, Clifford decides to join a traveling carnival so he can enter a talent contest in hopes of winning a lifetime … |
| Man of the Year | Bill | 2002-04-12 | Bill is the guest of honor as the “Man of the Year”. A very successful head of a large energy firm, he is a man with many dark secrets. His best frien… |
| The Colony | Rick Knowlton | 1995-09-17 | A man and his family move from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free haven overseen by a godlike businessman. However, t… |
| Terror Tract | Bob Carter | 2001-06-27 | A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they’re looking at…. |
| Heartbeat | Bill Grant | 1993-02-08 | The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America’s most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort he… |
| Lethal Vows | Dr. David Farris | 1999-10-13 | This psychological thriller, based on a true story, is about a seemingly upstanding, caring husband and father (Ritter) who is accused of foul play by… |
| Man of Miracles | Joe Cass | 1999-03-28 | In the sleepy town of Vine Creek, preacher and volunteer fireman Joe Cass wakes up to realize his family and community are at a breaking point. Joe de… |
| Loss of Faith | Bruce Simon Barker | 1998-10-01 | A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister’s behest and makes painful discoveries about himself along the way…. |
| Unnatural Causes | Frank Coleman | 1986-11-10 | Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a… |
| The Comeback Kid | Bubba Newman | 1980-04-10 | A down and out former minor league ballplayer finds romance and a renewed zest for life when he takes a job coaching a group of underprivileged kids…. |
| The Last Fling | Phillip Reed | 1987-02-09 | Television comedy about a young woman who decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiance…. |
| A Child’s Wish | Ed Chandler | 1997-01-21 | A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start…. |
| The Dreamer of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1990-12-10 | The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children’s book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz…. |
| Letting Go | Alex | 1985-05-11 | Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitabl… |
| Leave Yesterday Behind | Paul Stallings | 1978-01-11 | Paul was injured while playing polo. He then learns that he is paralyzed from the waist down. Feeling despondent, he decides to go to his grandfather’… |
| Unforgivable | Paul Hegstrom | 1996-04-30 | John Ritter plays a family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his family and al… |
| My Brother’s Wife | Barney | 1989-12-17 | Barney is a guy who comes home for his father’s funeral. Eleanor, his brother’s wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where … |
| Love Thy Neighbor | Danny Loeb | 1984-05-23 | When Danny’s wife and Linda’s husband run away together, the two neighbors form an unlikely bond…. |
| In Love with an Older Woman | Robert | 1982-11-24 | A 29 year old lawyer (Ritter), falls for a 43 year old woman (Carlson)…. |
| Pray TV | Tom McPherson | 1982-02-01 | A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter’s conventional activities s… |
| Sunset Limousine | Alan O’Black | 1983-10-12 | Alan O’Black is a comic who wants to hit it big. But his endless attempts at stardom have worn down his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Julie. Th… |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog: Rock N’ Roll Clifford | Clifford (voice) | 2004-02-17 | … |
| The Only Way Out | 1993-12-19 | Jeremy Carlisle’s ex-wife Lynn is trying to stay away from her dangerously disturbed ex-boyfriend Tony, and Jeremy does all he can do protect his fami… | |
| The Summer My Father Grew Up | Paul | 1991-03-03 | A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected…. |
| John Ritter: being of sound mind and body | various | 1980-05-04 | John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches…. |
| John Ritter: Behind Closed Doors | Himself (archive) | 2018-09-08 | A look at the life and prolific career of the talented comic actor known as Jack Tripper on the hit 1977 sitcom “Three’s Company.  |
| Real Men | Bob Wilson | 1987-09-25 | Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. Th… |
| TripFall | Tom Williams | 2000-06-27 | A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare…. |
| Chance of a Lifetime | Tom Maguire | 1998-03-29 | Irreverent freelance investigative reporter Tom Maguire hits rock bottom when bigot editor in chief Ivan refuses to print his pieces anymore and his b… |
| Manhood | Eli | 2003-01-23 | A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together…. |
| Mercenary | Jonas Ambler | 1996-10-17 | Jonas Ambler is a rich businessman whose wife is killed by kidnappers, so he decides to get even. He hires a mercenary to find and kill the kidnappers… |
| Nuncrackers | Narrator | 2001-12-01 | Fourth musical in the Nunsense series…. |
| Gramps | Clarke MacGruder | 1995-05-20 | After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, … |
| Mickey’s 60th Birthday | Dudley Goode | 1988-11-13 | This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the ang… |
| Dead Husbands | Dr. Carter Elston | 1998-12-02 | Dr. Carter Elson is a man who finds a list of men’s names among his wife Alex’s possessions. When Carter discovers his own name at the bottom of the l… |
| Robin Williams: Off the Wall | Himself | 1978-10-27 | Robin Williams stand up special…. |
| The Flight of Dragons | Peter Dickinson | 1982-08-17 | The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red … |
| It Came From the Sky | Donald Bridges | 1999-05-15 | Jarvis and Pepper crash land their small plane on the roof of the Bridges family. Pepper finds herself having a positive effect on the households’ aut… |
| Tricks of the Trade | Donald Todsen | 1988-12-06 | Goody-two-shoe housewife and hooker accomplice search for husband’s murderer…. |
| Hacks | Hank | 1997-09-19 | Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter betwe… |
| They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director – A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson | Archive Footage | 2006-10-17 | Filmmaker Wes Anderson (“The Royal Tenenbaums” ) interviews Peter Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show, “Paper Moon”) about Bogdanovich’s film “They Al… |
| The Goldie Hawn Special | Self | 1978-03-01 | Goldie Hawn’s second TV special was in 1978, “The Goldie Hawn Special†and it was a sort of comeback for her, after she had been out of the spot… |
| How to Survive the 70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness | Himself | 1978-02-22 | A 1978 special starring Mary Tyler Moore, Harvey Korman, and John Ritter. Dick Van Dyke guest stars…. |
| The Real Story of O Christmas Tree | Piney (voice) | 1991-12-21 | In this children’s video a little girl asks a little pine tree to stay green through the winter to remind people of spring. The little tree must disob… |
| Panic | Dr. Josh Parks | 2000-12-01 | Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he’s worried about his son, and hi… |
| Montana | Dr. Wexler | 1998-01-16 | A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss’s runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow… |
| They All Laughed | Charles Rutledge | 1981-11-20 | New York’s Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies’ man John Russo trails Angel… |
| Sling Blade | Vaughan Cunningham | 1996-08-30 | Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her l… |
| A Smoky Mountain Christmas | Judge Harold Benton | 1986-12-14 | A country/western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman–and a witch…. |
| Tadpole | Stanley Grubman | 2002-11-01 | Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, an… |
| The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show | Himself | 1982-09-17 | The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show is a one-hour television special starring the glamorous Miss Piggy, which aired on ABC on September 17, 1982. Miss Piggy… |
| Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King | Self | 2003-01-01 | Take a nostalgic ride through movie history and relive the glory days of the Western — when kids spent their Saturdays watching double-feature matine… |
| Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel | Christian Therapist | 2000-01-01 | In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled him with self-loathing. He meets Miss Make-Do, wh… |
| Bad Santa | Bob Chipeska | 2003-11-26 | A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the … |
| A Gun, a Car, a Blonde | Duncan the Bartender | 1997-06-01 | In this homage to film noir, a wheelchair bound (Jim Metzler) paraplegic fantasizes about the new blonde (Andrea Thompson), who moves into the house a… |
| Strong Kids, Safe Kids | Himself | 1984-01-01 | Strong Kids, Safe Kids was put together because so many of us are concerned about the horrible potential dangers our kids face every day. Sexual moles… |
| Nickelodeon | Franklin Frank | 1976-12-21 | In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up wi… |
| Ringo | Marty Flesh | 1978-04-25 | Ringo, stressed out by fame, trades places with a schmuck who looks exactly like him. Then the problems start!… |
| The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team | Self | 1992-01-01 | Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis were the hottest act in America in the 1950’s & the highest paid comedy team in show business. They starred in nightclubs, r… |
| The Making of High Noon | Himself | 1992-01-02 | Documentary about High Noon featuring Fred Zinnemann and Stanley Kramer…. |
| Bride of Chucky | Chief Warren Kincaid | 1998-10-16 | Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts…. |
| Noises Off… | Garry Lejeune / Roger Tramplemain | 1992-03-20 | Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star… |
| The Barefoot Executive | Roger | 1971-03-17 | In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post – an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network…. |
| The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series | 2003-01-01 | Lifetime’s “Intimate Portrait” series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls — Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan — with a co… | |
| Donald Duck’s 50th Birthday | Himself | 1984-11-13 | Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other cast members. The film not only shows Donald’s life… |
| The Night That Panicked America | Walter Wingate | 1975-10-31 | A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles’ radio play, “The War of the Worlds” accidentally provoked…. |
| Wholly Moses | Satan (The Devil) | 1980-06-13 | Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from G… |
| The Other | Rider | 1972-05-24 | Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during … |
| Evil Roy Slade | Priest | 1972-02-18 | Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notor… |
| Harry Anderson: The Tricks of His Trade | Self | 1996-05-28 | A one man CBS Special featuring classic close-up magic, card tricks and other sleight of hand…. |
| Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood | Himself (Archive footage) | 2005-06-07 | A 14-part documentary that explores the life and career of Billy Bob Thornton, chronicling his journey that led him to work on Sling Blade. The piece … |
| All Star Party for Lucille Ball | Self | 1984-12-09 | … |
| Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen | Quote Reader | 1996-01-01 | Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures…. |
| The Stone Killer | Hart | 1973-08-08 | A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud…. |
| North | Ward Nelson | 1994-07-22 | Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don’t give North the attention he needs, so he files a … |
| Shadow of Doubt | Steven Mayer | 1998-04-09 | An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman…. |
| I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | Robert Forrest | 1998-09-13 | A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!… |
| The Lie | Bauer | 1973-04-24 | An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as “Reservatet” (1970) and for BBC as “The Lie” (1971). An American couple is trapped in the… |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Elevator Passenger (uncredited) | 1975-03-14 | Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave…. |
| Nowhere | Moses Helper | 1997-05-09 | In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her l… |
| For Hope | Date #5 (uncredited) | 1996-11-17 | The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped…. |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 | For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office a… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Bad Santa | In Memory Of | 2003-11-26 | A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the … |
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