John Martin Scurti is an American actor. Scurti attended

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, where he received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. One of his early major film roles was ''

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'' in 1994, in which he appeared with

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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 ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The $treet'', ''

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'', '' Ed'', and ''

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''. He appeared in two episodes of Marvel's ''

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'', and in 2018 played a recurring character in the

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series '' The Good Cop''.

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