Joel Gretsch

Joel James Gretsch (born December 20, 1963) is an American actor. His recent roles include Tom Baldwin on the USA Network series The 4400, Capt./Maj./Col. Owen Crawford in the Steven Spielberg produced 2002 sci-fi miniseries Taken and more recently Father Jack Landry on V

Biography

Personal life

Gretsch was born in Albany, Minnesota, the son of Russ and Barb. He has a sister, Jane, and a brother, Steve. Since 1999, Gretsch has been married to former actress Melanie Shatner, daughter of William Shatner, and has two daughters, Kaya and Willow.

Career

Gretsch studied acting at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis before moving to Los Angeles in 1989. His stage work includes roles in Molière's Tartuffe and John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.

He started his television work in the early 90's, appearing in episodes of Married... with Children, Melrose Place and Saved by the Bell: The New Class. Since then he has appeared in episodes of JAG, Silk Stalkings, CSI: Miami, Burn Notice, and NCIS. More recently, he played a wealthy advertising executive and husband of a supermodel on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He also had two guest appearances on NBC's Journeyman, playing the father of protagonist Dan Vasser.

Gretsch has also had supporting roles in a number of films including playing Bobby Jones in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Minority Report (2002), The Emperor's Club (2002) and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007).

In 2008 Gretsch had a recurring role as Pete Raynor, Lindsay Boxer's love interest, on the TV series Women's Murder Club.

Gretsch has reunited with Scott Peters (creator of The 4400) on his highly anticipated new series, a remake of V: The Series. Gretsch is playing a priest in the pilot episode who sees a "renaissance in faith" after the Visitors appear on Earth.^[1]

He had recently guest starred in the new Diablo Cody created Emmy Award nominated Showtime Comedy-Drama The United States of Tara in the 1st season's last two episodes.

Gretsch is repped by Mosaic Media Group and Sloan Offer Weber and Dern, llp.

References

External links

• Joel Gretsch at the Internet Movie Database