Early life

Gretsch was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota and grew up in Albany, Minnesota, the son of Russ and Barb. He has a sister, Jane, and a brother, Steve. Gretsch was raised Catholic.

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 1990s, appearing in episodes of Married... with Children, Melrose Place, Friends 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 television series Women's Murder Club.

Gretsch reunited with Scott Peters (creator of The 4400) on his remake of V. Gretsch played priest and resistance fighter, Father Jack Landry in the series. The show was cancelled in May 2011 after two seasons.

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.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Kate's Addiction	Jack
2000	Legend of Bagger Vance, TheThe Legend of Bagger Vance	Bobby Jones
2001	Jane Bond	Handsome Man	Short film
2002	Minority Report	Donald Dubin
	Emperor's Club, TheThe Emperor's Club	Older Sedgewick Bell
2006	Glass House: The Good Mother	Raymond Goode	Video
2007	National Treasure: Book of Secrets	Thomas Gates
2009	Shrink	Evan
	Push	Jonah
	Saving Grace B. Jones	Dan Jones
2011	Commerce	Ken	Short film
2013	Are You Here	Red Coulter
2015	Safelight	Mr. Sullivan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Freshman Dorm	Hunk	"Pilot"
1993	Married... with Children	Johnny	"It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This"
1994	Saved by the Bell: The New Class	Mr. Hartley	"Tommy the Tenor"
	Melrose Place	Mitch Sheridan	"No Strings Attached"
	Family Album	John	TV miniseries
1995	Friends	Fireman Ed	"The One with the Candy Hearts"
	Bold and the Beautiful, TheThe Bold and the Beautiful	Ramone	TV series
1997	Renegade	Chris	"SWM Seeks Vctm"
1999	JAG	Chief Hodge	"Silent Service"
	Silk Stalkings	Rusty	"Where and When"
	Pacific Blue	Mark Lewis	"Trust"
2000	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Dan	"One for the Road"
2002	Taken	Col. Owen Crawford	TV miniseries
2003	NCIS	NCIS Special Agent Stan Burley	"High Seas"
	CSI: Miami	John Walker	"Death Grip"
2004-2007	4400, TheThe 4400	Tom Baldwin	Main role
2006	CSI: NY	Dr. Keith Beaumont	"Live or Let Die"
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Jason Raines	"Siren Call"
2007	Journeyman	Frank Vasser	"The Legend of Dylan McCleen", "Home by Another Way"
2008	Women's Murder Club	Pete Raynor	"Father's Day", "And the Truth Will (Sometimes) Set You Free", "Never Tell"
2009	Burn Notice	Scott Chandler	"Seek and Destroy"
	United States of Tara	Dr. Holden	"Snow", "Miracle"
2009-2011	V	Father Jack Landry	Main role
2011	In Plain Sight	Major Lucas Provo	"Provo-Cation"
	Playboy Club, TheThe Playboy Club	Jimmy Wallace	"Trouble in Makeoutsville", "An Act of Simple Duplicity"
2012	Of Two Minds	Rick Clark	TV film
	NCIS	NCIS Special Agent Stan Burley	"Playing with Fire"
2013			"Squall"
	Client List, TheThe Client List	Ranger Captain Reese	"Wild Nights Are Calling", "What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am"
2013-2014	Witches of East End	Victor	Recurring role
2014	Caper	Sam Clarke	"City of Angles", "Psycho Path", "Southpaw's Always Right"
	Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse	Neil Martin	TV film
	Scorpion	Gov. Paul Lane	"Single Point of Failure"
	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Hank Thompson	"The Writing on the Wall"
2015	Criminal Minds	Sheriff Paul Desario	"Pariahville"
	NCIS	NCIS Special Agent Stan Burley	"Saviors"

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