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Thomas Ian Griffith
A man with long grey hair tied in a pony tail, wearing black-rimmed glasses.
A screen capture of Griffith during a YouTube interview in December 2021.
Born (1962-03-18) March 18, 1962 (age 62)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Other namesThomas Griffith
Alma materCollege of the Holy Cross
Occupations
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • producer
  • musician
  • martial artist
Years active
  • 1980–present
OrganizationIan Page Productions
Style
Television
Height6 ft 4 in (193 cm)[1]
Spouse
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(m. 1991)​
Children2

Thomas Ian Griffith (born March 18, 1962)[2][3] is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and martial artist.[4]

His best-known roles include Terry Silver in the 1989 martial arts film The Karate Kid Part III, which he later reprised in the fourth through sixth seasons of the Netflix television series Cobra Kai (2021–2025);[5] head vampire Jan Valek in John Carpenter's 1998 neo-Western action horror film Vampires; recurring character Larry Sawyer in the first season of The WB's teen drama series One Tree Hill (2004); and Catlin Ewing in NBC's soap opera Another World, which he helmed from 1984–1987.

He also wrote, story edited, co-produced, or supervised produced over sixty episodes of NBC's fantasy police procedural drama horror program Grimm, and has written and served as a supervising producer on a dozen episodes of Netflix's romantic drama series Virgin River. Griffith and his wife, Mary Page Keller, formed the independent film production company Ian Page Productions in the late 1980s, through which they produced a handful of films, including Night of the Warrior (1991), Ulterior Motives (1991), Excessive Force (1992), and Avalanche (1999).

During the 1990s, he starred in a series of direct-to-video and low-budget theatrically-released films, though he was positioned to be one of Hollywood's next big action stars.[6][7] From critics and journalists, he received frequent comparisons to actors like Jean Claude van Damme, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Jeff Speakman, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, and even Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and Mickey Rourke. Writing for the New York Daily News, Nancy Stedman offered "He's being touted as a better-looking version of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jean-Claude Van Damme. But with a difference: Muscles are a sideline with Griffith; he has spent years acting in theater."[8] At the eighth annual ShowEast film industry conference held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in October 1992, Griffith received the Star of Tomorrow Award.[9][10][11]

Early life

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Birth and family background

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Thomas Ian Griffith was born in Hartford, Connecticut on March 18, 1962, the son of Irish-American Hartford natives Mary Ann (née O'Neil; 1934–1990)[12] and Dr. Thomas Joseph Griffith (1927–2017).[13][2][14] His maternal grandfather, John J. O'Neil, was born in Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, and emigrated to Hartford in the 1920s.[15] His maternal grandmother, Margaret (née Galvin), was also born in County Kerry, Ireland and spent most of her life in Hartford.[16] His paternal grandparents, Michael J. Griffith and Mary Agnes (née Radigan), were both born in County Mayo, Ireland, and emigrated (separately) to Hartford in the 1910s.[17][18]

Griffith's mother, who was voted Mrs. Connecticut of 1964,[19] was the founder and director of the noted Irish dancing academy, The Griffith Academy of Dance in Wethersfield, Connecticut.[20][12] She was a graduate of the University of Hartford, and received a Master's degree in counseling from St. Joseph College.[12] She was also an accredited An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha and Teagascóir Coimisiún Le Rinci Gaelacha Irish dance teacher.[12] His paternal grandmother, Mary Agnes, was also a member of The Irish Dancing Commission.[21] His father served in the Navy during World War II and later hosted a weekly Sunday radio show, The Irish Hour (produced by his brother William E. Griffith).[13][22] He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Hartford and went on to earn three Master of Science degrees and a PhD in Education from Boston University.[13] He was an assistant professor in business administration at the University of Hartford,[19] before moving to Florida to teach at Lynn University in Boca Raton and Broward College in Davie.[2][14]

Griffith has an older sisters, Colleen Marie, and a younger sister, Mary Beth,[12][19] both of whom continued in their mother's footsteps and teach at The Griffith Academy.[14][23] His family's dancing background and the taking over of the academy by his sister after his mother's passing would later be developed by Griffith into a television program, The Dunnings.[24][25]

Education and studies (1962–1980)

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Griffith grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut.[26] During the 1960s, he was part of the youth Irish dancing group The Griffith Dancers, under the direction of his mother.[27][28] The dancing group traveled around the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom, performing and taking part in competitions.[29] In addition to learning various forms of dancing (such as Irish step-dancing and Celtic folk-dancing) from his mother, he also learned to sing and play several instruments, including the piano and the accordion.[4] He was so proficient on the accordion that he won the U.S. and Connecticut State championships.[4] At certain shows he would dance a jig and play his accordion,[30] and would usually accompany The Griffith Dancers on the instrument.[31][32] Of his dancing, he later said "I never had a formal dance lesson in my life, I picked up tap dancing while playing the piano for allowance money as a child in Hartford, Connecticut."[4] Griffith also juggled and wrote songs.[4]

He attended South Catholic High School in Hartford, graduating with the class of 1978, where he was Treasurer his junior year, Vice-President his senior year, and also co-editor of the school's yearbook, the Canticle.[14][33] He won awards in algebra, biology, and chemistry, and was a member of the State Creative Youth.[33] He focused on sports his freshman year, playing football and basketball, but was later drawn into music and theatre, as a member of the school's madigral and glee club.[33] His sophomore year, he joined the school's drama club, The South Catholic Players, as their piano accompanist.[33][34] As a way to meet girls that acted in the plays, Griffith also wound up acting in the school's productions.[34] His senior year, under the direction of John Kiely, he played the lead, Albert Peterson, in a 1978 production of the musical comedy Bye Bye Birdie.[33]

Griffith became obsessed with taekwondo when he was 12, studying at the S.K. Tae Kwon Do Academy in Hartford, and earned a black belt when he was 18.[35][36] He later earned a black belt in American Kenpo while studying the sport in New York under Hyung Yup Chung.[3] After moving to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, he studied with Jun Chong.[3] In the 1990s, he picked up boxing under Benny Urquidez.[3] He is also trained in kickboxing, wrestling, fencing, and stage combat.[37][38]

Some sources state that he studied law at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was a dean's list student before leaving after his junior year to "make it" as an actor in New York.[14][4] Other sources report that he was an English and music major at that same college, but that he graduated before setting out into acting.[39] The college's website lists him as a class of 1982 student.[40] Its 1980 yearbook, the Purple Patcher, lists him as a resident student,[41] while its 1981 edition lists him as a player in the lacrosse team,[42] but he is absent from the 1979 and 1982 editions.[43][44] Griffith later mentioned taking part in the college's plays.[34]

Career

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Theater and soap operas (1980–1987)

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In the summer of 1980, between his sophomore and junior year at College of the Holy Cross,[45] Griffith made his Broadway debut when he replaced featured player Tom Cashin in the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, under the direction of Peter Masterson and Tommy Tune at the 46th Street Theatre.[14][4][46] In a 1984 interview with the Los Angeles Times, the actor confided that Tune (for whom he audition)[34] hired him more for his physique and dancing skills than his acting abilities.[39] He later told The Star-Ledger in 1992, "They noticed 'Celtic step dancing' on my resume, and I was asked if I could demonstrate. So I cranked out a little step. They loved it."[47] Griffith performed various roles in the play, including a stage manager, a cameraman, and a football player named Aggie #12 who does a specialty tap-dance.[46][14][4] Having a steady role in the play allowed the actor to move from Yonkers to Manhattan, though he continued attending College of the Holy Cross during the day.[45] He also studied the Michael Chekhov acting technique in New York City during this time.[34]

The next year, he landed another role in the Broadway sports musical The First, which dramatized events from the life of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball.[48][4] In that play, which ran from October 19 to December 12, 1981, under the direction of Martin Charnin at the Martin Beck Theatre, Griffith also played various parts (including Thurman the Brooklyn Eagle photographer, a passenger, a Brooklyn Dodgers rookie, and a Pittsburg Pirates player).[4][48] He also appeared in off-Broadway productions.[3]

He was hired and cast in the 1983–1984 season of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, appearing in the first two plays, The Threepenny Opera (which ran from June 10 to July 17, 1983, directed by Liviu Ciulei) and Guys and Dolls (which ran from July 29 to September 18, 1983, directed by Garland Wright).[49][39][14][4] The theater's production of The Threepenny Opera starred Theodore Bikel,[50] while Guys and Dolls' starred Roy Thinnes, Jerry Stiller, Barbara Sharma, and Mike Mazurki.[51][52] Griffith was scheduled to appear in five other productions at the Guthrie Theater that season, The Entertainer (September 23 to October 23, 1983), The Seagull (October 28 to November 20, 1983), A Christmas Carol (November 24, 1983 to January 1, 1984), The Importance of Being Ernest (January 6 to February 12, 1984), and Hedda Gabler (February 17 to March 11, 1984), but he departed for New York.[49][39]

His stage and theater roles were usually credited under his shortened name, Thomas Griffith;[53] he would not be credited as Thomas Ian Griffith until he was cast in Another World in late 1983, to avoid confusion with another actor, Tom Griffith (who appeared in horror films The Alien Factor (1978), Fiend (1980), Night of Horror (1981), and Nightbeast (1982)).[citation needed]

A New York casting director caught Griffith's work at the Guthrie Theater and arranged for him an audition for NBC in late 1983.[39] From that single audition (in which he was paired with Mary Page Keller),[8][54] he received two simultaneous offers to join either Another World or Search for Tomorrow, both NBC daytime soap operas.[39] The actor chose Another World, was signed to a nine-month contract, and was cast as the "troublemaking-womanizer" Catlin Ewing.[4][39] Griffith had initially planned to return to stage work after his nine-month contract expired, with the television experience added to his resumé, and he took acting lessons when he had time off from shooting.[39] He made his television-acting debut in January 1984 and wound up playing Ewing for three years, until January 1987.[55][56][14] During this time, he dated his co-star, onscreen love interest, and future wife, Mary Page Keller; the couple eventually married in 1991.[14]

Appearing on Another World made him "one of daytime television's more familiar and possibly popular faces,"[57] a "matinee idol,"[58] and a "soap superstar."[59] By 1985, he was a frequently invited guest at international trade shows and exhibitions, where he met fans and signed autographs.[60][61][62][63] He was also noted for performing and choreographing his own stunts on the show.[64] As early as July 1986, news circulated that Griffith, although playing a popular character on Another World, was not going to renew his contract once it ended in January 1987, and the importance of his role was gradually diminished in the writing of the show.[65][66]

Hollywood and Ian Page Productions (1987–1993)

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After leaving Another World in 1985, his girlfriend Keller moved from Brooklyn, New York (where most of the television series was filmed) to Los Angeles, California (she was a native of Monterey, California);[67] Griffith joined her in early 1987, when his contract expired.[14][68] There, they made their home and formed an independent film production company, Ian Page Productions, named after their middle names, and he began writing the screenplay for A Place to Hide (later filmed as Night of the Warrior).[69] In 1988, Griffith had a guest role on NBC's prime-time television crime drama series In the Heat of the Night; he appeared in the two-part season two premiere episode "Don't Look Back," which aired in December 1988.[70]

In late 1988, Griffith landed his theatrical film debut when he was cast as the lead villain in The Karate Kid Part III (released in June 1989).[71] In the film, he portrays Terry Silver, a rival martial arts expert who influences Daniel LaRusso against his friend and mentor, Mr. Miyagi. Although many reporters assumed that he won the role of Silver because of his personal knowledge of martial arts, Griffith explained that he landed the part solely because of his acting experience as the character of Silver, as originally written when he auditioned, didn't have much fighting in the film.[3] The plot initially revolved around Silver torturing LaRusso and plotting his demise, but once the film's fight choreographer, Pat Johnson, discovered Griffith's expertise with martial arts, he recommended that the actor approach director John G. Avildsen for new scenes to be written.[3] Avildsen was excited about expanding Silver's parts and reworked the script to make the character an equal nemesis.[3]

Despite being offered similar martial arts roles following The Karate Kid Part III, the actor did not want to be typecast.[3] When interviewed by Black Belt magazine, Griffith explained he wanted to keep his roles balanced, and that although he loved doing action and martial arts films, he was also driven to keep playing straight drama parts, and was interested in going back to plays and doing Shakespeare.[3] He also told the New York Daily News "I'm hoping that in between the big action films there will be something more soulful."[8] Griffith then landed another guest role on CBS's prime-time television crime drama series Wiseguy; he appeared in the two-part season two finale episodes "Le Lacrime d'Amore Part 1: AKA The Four-Letter Word" and "Le Lacrime d'Amore Part 2: AKA There's Plenty of Time," which aired in May 1989. Griffith plays the role of Roger Totland, Amber Twine's (Patti D'Arbanville) attorney who convinces her to sever ties with the protagonist, Vinnie Terranova (Ken Wahl), by seducing and winning and dinning her, in an attempt to profit from the sale of her company and real estate.[72]

His agent heard that ABC was casting for its television biopic of late screen actor Rock Hudson and sent Griffith over to audition for director John Nicolella.[34] Although Griffith only did a cold reading, Nicolella loved his delivery and asked him to repeat the audition for a dozen ABC executives; the following day, Griffith was informed that he had the part.[34] The actor admitted to The New York Times that prior to the Hudson biopic, he was not a fan of the screen legend's work and had only seen Giant (1956), but that through research for the role, he learned to appreciate the late actor's work and found it to be a great role for him.[73][72] Griffith was only one inch taller than Hudson and had a similar physique, but required several hours of makeup each day (including darkening his brown hair and wearing brown contacts over his blue eyes) to get into character, especially when depicting Hudson's final years as he was dying from AIDS.[73][1] Producer Frank Konigsberg later told newspaper reporters that he felt it was more important to cast an actor who could play Hudson's tortured spirit than an exact lookalike,[1] and that Griffith "has the presence, the height and the build of Rock. He also has that wonderful kind of open, all-American quality, a boyish innocence that makes you really like the guy. That's what Rock had, too."[74] The two-hour Rock Hudson film was broadcast on ABC in January 1990.[14][75]

Through Ian Page Productions, Griffith wrote and co-produced the action flic Night of the Warrior, which originated from a screenplay and story he wrote in 1988 titled A Place to Hide.[76][69][77] The film, when initially scheduled to start shooting in late November 1988 (before being delayed when Griffith was cast in The Karate Kidd Part III), was a mystery-drama flic about a poet who works at a strip club.[14][78] It was to be directed by Scott Thomas and co-star Griffith and Keller with a cast that boasted Arlene Dahl, Bill Erwin, Dana Ashbrook, and Chris Lemmon, and be co-produced by Mike Erwin (son of actor Bill Erwin).[69][78] By 1989, the film's cast had changed to star Lorenzo Lamas (Dahl's real-life son) replacing Griffith; the former also came in as co-producer through his film production company, Blueline Productions/Erwin, Lamas, Kirishima Productions (co-owned with Mike Erwin and J. Max Kirishima).[79][76] Erwin, Lamas, and Griffith had met through their love of karate.[80] With new producers Lamas and Kirishima on board, the script was drastically changed to include more martial arts and turn it into more of an action film, about which Griffith was unhappy.[14] The movie was finally filmed in 1990,[81] with director Rafal Zielinski and starring Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont (Lamas' real-life wife, replacing Keller), Dahl, Erwin, Anthony Geary, and Danny Kamekona.[14] It was distributed in 1991, in theaters via Trimark Pictures and on video and laserdisc via its division Vidmark Entertainment.[14][69]

Griffith and Keller next co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in the political action thriller film Ulterior Motives (working title Deadline[81]) involving a New York Times reporter, Erica Boswell (Keller), who uncovers a story about a Japanese-American businessman selling U.S. defense secrets to Japan. She hires private detective Jack Blaylock (Griffith) to help with the investigation.[82] Directed by James Becket, its cast also included Ken Howard, Ellen Crawford, M.C. Gainey, Hayward Nishioka, Tyra Ferrell, and Joe Yamanaka. Ulterior Motives was again produced in cooperation with Erwin and Lamas' film production company, Erwin, Lamas, Kirishima Productions,[83] and was filmed and edited in late 1990.[84][85] It was screened in February and March 1991 at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California,[86] and a larger release happened two years later in late 1992, when Imperial Entertainment issued it on video and laserdisc.[87][14][69]

With several acting, writing, and producing credits to his name, Griffith was picked up for representation by talent agency Creative Artists Agency.[14] In 1991, his agent took Griffith's new screenplay for Excessive Force, in which he plays Detective Terry McCain, a Chicago police officer who gets framed for the murder of a mob boss, to New Line Cinema.[88][11] Within two weeks, New Line Cinema's president Michael Lynne had agreed to finance and distribute the film and wanted Griffith to also star in it.[11][89] Ultimately, the offer evolved into a three-picture writing-producing-starring-directing deal for Ian Page Productions, though Griffith did not use his option to direct the film.[14][88][89] Griffith said he wanted someone else to direct so that he could be focused on acting on the set.[11]

Excessive Force was given a $5.5 million budget[11] and John Hess was hired to direct, while Griffith produced, co-choreographed (with Bobby Bass), and starred in the film; he can also be seen playing several jazz tunes on the piano.[14][3] The movie was filmed on location in Chicago, Illinois between March-May 1992,[90][88] and included such notable stars as James Earl Jones, Burt Young, and Lance Henriksen.[91] For his role, Griffith did research by spending time with real Chicago cops who patrolled rough areas of the city and was present during a raid on a crack house.[11] Excessive Force received limited theatrical releases starting on November 6, 1992 and into 1993,[92] during which Griffith embarked on a promotional tour to plug the film.[11] The wide theatrical opening of Excessive Force was in February 1993,[93] and by May 1993, the film was in theaters everywhere.[94] Although the filmed fared poorly at the box office, grossing only $1.1 million in the US, it sold so well when issued on VHS that same year via New Line Home Video, grossing a profit within months,[94] that New Line Cinema was open to a sequel.[95] That sequel was eventually produced, Excessive Force II: Force on Force, but without any input from Griffith.

Between 1991–1993, Griffith was positioned to be one of Hollywood's next big action stars.[6] From critics and journalists, he received frequent comparisons to actors like Jean Claude van Damme, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Jeff Speakman, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, and even Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and Mickey Rourke.[6][14][58][96][97][98][99][100] Writing for the New York Daily News, Nancy Stedman offered "He's being touted as a better-looking version of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jean-Claude Van Damme. But with a difference: Muscles are a sideline with Griffith; he has spent years acting in theater."[8] When interviewed by Variety, New Line Cinema president Michael Lynne described the actor as "New Line's version of Steven Seagal."[89] At the eighth annual ShowEast film industry conference held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in October 1992, Griffith received the Star of Tomorrow Award.[9][10][11]

Starring roles in foreign productions (1993–1997)

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Griffith was next cast to co-star alongside Christopher Plummer and Nastassja Kinski in the Canadian action film Crackerjack, which was directed by Michael Mazo and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia between September–November 1993.[101][102] The film deals with a burnt-out cop (Griffith) who is taken to a mountain resort by his brother, sister-in-law, and newborn child to help him recover emotionally from the death of his wife. There, he befriends a tour guide (Kinski), but the entire resort is soon held hostage by a master criminal (Plummer) and his henchmen, who threaten to bury it under an avalanche using explosives. Crackerjack was distributed theatrically in the United States by Worldvision Enterprises and had its world premiere at the American Film Market on February 25, 1994.[103]

He then starred in Nu Image's suspense-action production Blood of the Innocent, which was filmed on location in Nieborów, Czerwińsk nad Wisłą, and Warsaw, Poland between August and September 1994,[104] and co-starred John Rhys-Davies and Rutger Hauer. The movie follows a Chicago cop (Griffith) who travels to Poland to find the hoods who killed his brother. Aided by the local police captain (Rhys-Davies), he discovers that his sibling was murdered by the Russian mafia, who are killing local peasants and selling their organs on the black market after a doctor (Hauer) dismembers them.[105] The film premiered on Showtime in December 1994,[106] and was later released on VHS via Republic Pictures in 1995, under the alternative title Beyond Forgiveness.[105]

He was again cast by Nu Image in Hollow Point, an action-comedy film co-produced with Canada's Astral Programming Enterprises, Phoenician Films, and Filmline International.[107] Though some stock footage of Boston's landscape was used during the opening, and the police cars bared that city's name, the movie was shot entirely in Montreal, Quebec during seven weeks between April and May 1995.[108] Hollow Point was directed by Sidney J. Furie and co-starred Tia Carrere, John Lithgow, and Donald Sutherland.[109][107] Griffith (who shows off his operatic singing during several scenes) stars as a DEA agent who teams up with an FBI agent (Carrere) and a flamboyant hitman (Sutherland) to takedown a criminal syndicate lead by a financial adviser (Lithgow).[107] The film premiered on HBO in June 1996.[110] Vidmark Entertainment released the film on VHS in the United States, Sterling Entertainment Group released it on DVD in the United States, while TVA Films issued it on DVD in Canada.[107]

In 1996, Griffith was cast in a co-starring role in Raffaella De Laurentiis Productions' sword and sorcery picture Kull the Conqueror, which was shot in Slovakia and Croatia between August and October 1996.[111][112][113] The actor was re-teamed with director John Nicolella (from the Rock Hudson biopic) and Tia Carrere (from Hollow Point).[114] The movie starred Kevin Sorbo and featured Gary "Litefoot" Davis, Roy Brocksmith, Harvey Fierstein, and Karina Lombard. The story deals with a barbarian, Kull (Sorbo), who wins the throne of Valusian in a sword fight, much to the dismay of Taligaro (Griffith) and others who each feel they are the rightful inheritors of that position, and who attempt to kill him. The film was released via Universal Pictures in August 1997.[115]

Griffith next starred in Motion Picture Corporation of America's Orion Pictures-distributed action/war film Behind Enemy Lines.[116] Directed by Mark Griffiths, it co-stars Chris Mulkey, Mushond Lee, Courtney Gains, and Maury Sterling, and was filmed in the Philippines.[116] The story deals with ex-United States Marine Corps Mike Weston (Griffith) who is sent back to Vietnam to rescue his friend Jones (Mulkey), the latter of whom was left behind on their last mission.[117] After Weston is betrayed and imprisoned, three of his former Marine friends (Lee, Gaines, and Sterling), along with his sister and a Vietnamese compatriot, help to rescue the pair.[117] Behind Enemy Lines premiered on HBO in May 1997.[118][119]

In March 1997, NBC announced it had filmed a pilot episode for a proposed television drama series named The Angel (later renamed The Guardian), for its fall 1997 schedule.[120][121] The premise of the show, which was written and directed by Rob Cohen, had Griffith starring as Ray Angelotti (known as The Guardian Angel), an ex-thief and martial arts expert with a sixth-degree Kenpo Karate black belt, who comes out of prison determined to right wrongs and make up for his past misdeeds.[122] The pilot episode also included Stephanie Niznik, Rebecca Rigg, Brian Thompson, and Tippi Hedren.[122] The show was not picked up.

Transition to co-starring and supporting roles (1997–2007)

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Griffith was next cast in director John Carpenter's neo-Western action horror film Vampires, playing the role of head vampire Jan Valek. The movie starred James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, and Sheryl Lee, and was shot from June to August 1997 in New Mexico.[123][124] The plot deals with a modern-day vampire hunter (Woods) and his partner (Baldwin), hunting for the world's first vampire (Griffith) in the American south, using his latest victim (Lee) to track him down. The film, which was produced through Storm King Production, was released through Columbia Pictures in October 1998.

In The First Vampire, a bonus feature included on Vampires' collector's edition Blu-ray, Griffith recalls coming into the production through an audition with Carpenter's wife, producer Sandy King, prior to going to the Philippines to film Behind Enemy Lines.[125] While filming Behind Enemy Lines, Griffith received news from his agent that he got the part in Vampires.[125] When King and Carpenter first met with Griffith, his hair was still long from his role in Kull the Conqueror, but he had since cut his hair short for the war picture; this gave the producers the idea of giving Valek long hair and sent Griffith in for extensions.[125] Carpenter also instructed Griffith not to take part in pre-production rehearsals with the other actors, so that his character would be intentionally detached and emotionless.[125] Griffith would show up to film scenes having never met his co-stars, and often found it difficult not to laugh at Woods' comical improvised lines.[125]

The actor next appeared in the television film The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999), which was filmed between November and December 1997, on location in Ireland, Paris, and Morocco.[126]

In 1999, he starred in the action film Avalanche (also known as Escape from Alaska), which he co-produced through Ian Page Productions,[127] and in the TV movie Secret of Giving with Reba McEntire; earlier in 1999, he had appeared in McEntire's music video for her song "What Do You Say."

In 2000, he signed with the Metropolitan Talent Agency, where he was represented by Chris Barrett and Karen Forman.[128] He was also managed by Himber Entertainment.[128] That year, he acted in For the Cause (also known as Final Encounter) and A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle. In 2001, he was in High Adventure and in 2002 had a part in Black Point and Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues. In 2002, Griffith appeared in the film xXx, in which he portrayed Agent Jim McGrath. One of his last starring roles was as a pirate in The Sea Wolf (also known as Seawolf: The Pirate's Curse), filmed in 2000 but only released in 2002.

In 2003 he played the antagonist in Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (a sequel to Jean-Claude van Damme's 1994 film Timecop). In 2004 he was cast in the role of Larry Sawyer during the first season of One Tree Hill. In 2005 he appeared in one episode of The Closer and in 2006 in one episode of Cold Case. In 2007 he was in the television movie The Kidnapping (also known as Black Friday).

In the early 2000s, he returned to stage work to appear in several Hollywood musical revivals, including 1776 (2001),[129][130] I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road (2004),[131] Camelot (2005),[132][133] and Chess (2007).[134][135] He also appeared in the Gianni Schicchi opera for a USC Opera production.[136]

Focus on writing and producing (2008–present)

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In 2008, Griffith retired from acting to focus on screenwriting. In 2009 he wrote the film Mr. Troop Mom. Starting in 2013, he periodically wrote episodes for the NBC television series Grimm, contributing fourteen in total by the series' end. In its fourth season, he became the story editor, in its fifth season, he became the co-producer, and for its sixth and final season, he was the supervising producer. Griffith worked on a total of 61 Grimm episodes. He co-created the comic book series Asylum (2014–2016) with John Carpenter and his wife, producer Sandy King.[137][138]

He and his wife, Mary Page Keller, also collaborated to write the sixth episode of the dramedy series Dolly Parton's Heartstrings in 2019, as well as an episode for Netflix series Virgin River.[139] In 2020, he was a producer on Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square. They later co-wrote the television series The Dunnings for NBC but it was never made.[24][25] Another series, The Translator's Daughter, was developed in 2019, also for NBC but remains unmade.[140]

In 2021, Griffith came out of his retirement from acting to reprise the role of Terry Silver in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons of Cobra Kai.[141][142]

Personal life

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Griffith has been married to his former Another World co-star Mary Page Keller since November 16, 1991.[2][143] The pair have two sons together,[144] Conner O'Neil Griffith (born June 3, 1994),[143] who is a video artist and animator,[145] and Eamon Michael Griffith (born March 28, 1997),[143] who is a musician.[146]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Film Role Notes
1989 The Karate Kid Part III Terry Silver
1991 Night of the Warrior — writer and producer
1991 Ulterior Motives Jack Blaylock also writer and producer
1992 Excessive Force Terry McCain also writer and producer
1994 Crackerjack Jack Wild
1994 Blood of the Innocent Frank Wusharsky
1996 Hollow Point Max Parrish
1997 Behind Enemy Lines Mike Weston
1997 Kull the Conqueror Taligaro
1998 Vampires Jan Valek
1999 Avalanche Neal Meekin also producer
2000 For the Cause Evans
2001 High Adventure Chris Quatermain
2002 Black Point Gus Travis also writer
2002 xXx Jim McGrath
2002 The Sea Wolf Captain Jeffery Thorpe
2003 Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision Brandon Miller
2020 Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square — consulting producer

Television

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Year Show Character Notes
1984–1987 Another World Catlin Ewing 52 episodes
1985 Miami Vice Extra (guy in pool, next to guy on raft in clothes)[citation needed] 1 episode
1988 In the Heat of the Night Luke Potter 2 episodes
1989 Wiseguy Roger Tot 2 episodes
1990 Rock Hudson Rock Hudson TV movie
1997 The Guardian Ray Angelotti TV pilot
1999 The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax Jack Farrell TV movie
1999 Secret of Giving Harry Withers TV movie
2000 A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle Doug Brister TV movie
2002 Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues Cornelius Loudermilk TV movie
2004 One Tree Hill Larry Sawyer 5 episodes
2005 The Closer Thomas Yates 1 episode
2006 Cold Case Mitch 1 episode
2007 The Kidnapping Cash TV movie
2009 Mr. Troop Mom — TV movie – Writer
2013–2017 Grimm — Writer (14 episodes), story editor (season 4; 22 episodes), co-producer (season 5; 22 episodes), supervising producer (season 6; 13 episodes)
2019 Dolly Parton's Heartstrings — Writer (1 episode)
2021–2025 Cobra Kai Terry Silver Main antagonist (seasons 4–6; 23 episodes)
2023 Virgin River — Writer (2 episode), supervising producer (season 5; 12 episodes)

Video games

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  • Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising (2022) as Terry Silver (voice role)

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