---
name: "John Ales"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-ales"
fi1m_id: "john-ales"
imdb_id: "nm0018099"
tmdb_id: 64343
wikidata_id: "Q727024"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 January 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-26T14:50:27.129307+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Ales

## Identity

John Ales

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-ales
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-ales
- **IMDb ID:** nm0018099
- **TMDB ID:** 64343
- **Wikidata ID:** Q727024
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ales, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018099/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64343

Actor. Born 3 January 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 January 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 71 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 76 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,654m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ales, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018099/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64343

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*American Fiction*](https://film.one/film/american-fiction.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

John Ales is an American actor born on 3 January 1969 in Los Angeles, California. He trained as a Meisner actor and began his career in the 1980s.

He is known for film roles including Kabul in *Spy Hard* (1996), Jason in *The Nutty Professor* (1996) and its 2000 sequel, and Leo in *American Fiction* (2023). Television credits include the series *You Wish* (1997–1998), David Vaughn in *Euphoria* (2019–2022), Bruce Maddox in *Star Trek: Picard* (2020), and appearances in *Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll* (2015–2016) and *The Good Doctor* (2019). He is married to actor Wendy Gazelle.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, johnales.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Odyssey* (2026), Fi1m 83, as Beggar in Ithaca — [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *Black Rabbit* (2025), Fi1m 63, as Jules Zablonski — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md)
- *American Fiction* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Leo — [page](https://film.one/film/american-fiction.md)
- *Star Trek: Picard* (2020), Fi1m 64, as Bruce Maddox — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-picard.md)
- *Better Things* (2016), Fi1m 84, as Rodney — [page](https://film.one/tv/better-things-2016.md)

## Complete filmography (71)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Odyssey* (2026), as Beggar in Ithaca — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *Black Rabbit* (2025), series, as Jules Zablonski — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-rabbit.md)
- *American Fiction* (2023), as Leo — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/american-fiction.md)
- *The Blind* (2023), as Pastor Bill Smith
- *The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon* (2023), series, as Juno
- *Painkiller* (2023), series, as Dr. Gregory Fitzgibbons
- *Fool's Paradise* (2023), as Shady Jeweler
- *From Black* (2023), as Abel
- *Who Are You People* (2023), as Carey
- *Gatlopp: Hell of a Game* (2022), as Andre
- *The Old Man* (2022), series, as Ben McDonald
- *Outer Range* (2022), series, as Shelton Cape
- *True Story* (2021), series, Actor
- *Music* (2021), as Enzo, the Pawnbroker
- *Mr. Mayor* (2021), series, as Nikos
- *Star Trek: Picard* (2020), series, as Bruce Maddox — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-picard.md)
- *All Rise* (2019), series, as Willie Dewitt
- *Euphoria* (2019), series, as David Vaughn — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/euphoria.md)
- *Dead to Me* (2019), series, as Stavros
- *The Act* (2019), series, as Vance
- *Fam* (2019), series, as Darryl
- *Station 19* (2018), series, as Brother John
- *Marvel's Runaways* (2017), series, as Quinton The Great
- *White Famous* (2017), series, as Jimmy Duke
- *The Good Doctor* (2017), series, as Oliver Thomas
- *Brockmire* (2017), series, as New York Yankees Owner
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, as Nikola Tesla
- *Lethal Weapon* (2016), series, as Phil Green
- *Better Things* (2016), series, as Rodney — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/better-things-2016.md)
- *Preacher* (2016), series, as Doomsday Preacher
- *Sneaky Pete* (2015), series, as Luka Delchev
- *Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll* (2015), series, as Rehab
- *Bosch* (2015), series, as Andrew Holland
- *The Fosters* (2013), series, Actor
- *Major Crimes* (2012), series, as Martin Elliot — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/major-crimes.md)
- *Longmire* (2012), series, as Tony Moten — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/longmire.md)
- *Whole Day Down* (2011), series, as Arterrorist Bob
- *Shake It Up* (2010), series, as Igor
- *The Defenders* (2010), series, as Vinnie Cerrato
- *Rizzoli & Isles* (2010), series, as Artist
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, as Cale Sylvan — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *In Plain Sight* (2008), series, as Jay Allen / Jay Arnstein
- *Dragon Wars: D-War* (2007), as Agent Judah Campbell
- *Mad Men* (2007), series, as Perry Demuth — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Burn Notice* (2007), series, as Matt Bailey
- *Lucky Man* (2007), Actor
- *Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen* (2006), as Comet / Hank / Instructor (voice)
- *Vanished* (2006), series, as Zach
- *Medium* (2005), series, as Hal Munzell
- *Life of the Party* (2005), as Artie
- *Center of the Universe* (2004), series, as Lex
- *Second Time Around* (2004), series, as Kent Simon
- *Living with Lou* (2004), as Lou
- *NCIS* (2003), series, as Miles Hogan — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)
- *Without a Trace* (2002), series, as George Zousmer
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Mike Tibbetts
- *The Zeros* (2001), as Seth
- *Burning Down the House* (2001), as Francois
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Timothy Rand
- *Nutty Professor II: The Klumps* (2000), as Jason
- *Ride with the Devil* (1999), as Quantrill
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Tom Russo
- *Fantasy Island* (1998), series, as Nathan O'Neil
- *The Wild Thornberrys* (1998), series, as Hartebeast / Honey Badger #2 (voice)
- *You Wish* (1997), series, as Genie
- *Vibrations* (1996), as Miles
- *The Nutty Professor* (1996), as Jason
- *Spy Hard* (1996), as Kabul
- *Madman of the People* (1994), series, as Dylan Buckner
- *Chicago Hope* (1994), series, as File Thief
- *Beavis and Butt-Head* (1993), series, as Additional Voices (voice), Additional Voices (voices), Teacher (voice)

## Gallery

- ![John Ales](https://film.one/media/person/12075/gallery-eded810edb3c.jpg) John Ales — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/John_Ales_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-John_Ales_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John Ales](https://film.one/media/person/12075/gallery-6a5892361a60.jpg) John Ales — Image via TMDB
- ![John Ales](https://film.one/media/person/12075/gallery-014d8c6346dd.jpg) John Ales — Image via TMDB

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