John Martin Scurti is an American actor.
Scurti attended
Fordham University
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, where he received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. One of his early major film roles was ''
The Ref
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Plot
On Christmas Eve in an affluent Connecticut hamlet, Lloyd and ...
'' in 1994, in which he appeared with
Denis Leary
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. He maintained a friendship with Leary, and in 2004 Leary asked him to play Lt. Ken Shea in the series ''
Rescue Me''. Scurti played Shea for all seven seasons of the show, and also contributed as a writer.
Through the 1990s and early 2000s, Scurti worked mainly in television, landing small roles on episodes of shows such as ''
Murphy Brown
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'', ''
Baywatch Nights
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'', ''
Spin City
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'', ''
Sex and the City
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'', ''
The $treet
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'', ''
Law & Order
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''Law & Order'' aired its entire run on NBC, premiering ...
'', ''
Ed'', and ''
Monk
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''. He appeared in two episodes of Marvel's ''
Luke Cage
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'', and in 2018 played a recurring character in the
Netflix
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series ''
The Good Cop''.
Filmography
Writer
References
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Interviewwith
Gothamist
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American male film actors
American male television actors
Fordham University alumni
Living people
Male actors from New York (state)
People from Northport, New York
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Italian descent