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Joe Flanigan

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Recent Role:
Robert Danzig on Fringe
Gender:
Male
Born:
1-5-1967
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California
Birth Name:
Joseph Harold Dunnigan III
Joe Flanigan was born in Los Angeles, California on January 5, 1967, but grew up near Reno on a small ranch from age 6. His parents, John and Nancy Flanigan, still lives on the small Holcomb Lane ranch where he grew up.
He attended boarding school in Ojai, California at the age of 14. While at this school, Joe was Stanley Kowalski in a school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Joe Flanigan received a degree in History from the University of Colorado, where he also appeared in Coriolanus. During his first year of college, he joined the Junior Year Abroad program
More which allowed him to study in Paris as a part of his study program.
After graduating from college Flanigan worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. He was never completely comfortable in any of these jobs. After he got fired from the Interview magazine, he was broke, and lived in New York City. His next door neighbor was an actor, and he convinced Joe to give it a try. He then studied acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.
His first acting jobs were commercials. In 1994 he got his first role in television, in the NBC miniseries Family Album. He was also a regular on the series Sisters and First Monday.
Flanigan had guest starring roles on Birds of Prey and Judging Amy as well as Murphy Brown in which he played her love interest, Scott. Flanigan made repeat appearances on the series Providence, Cupid , and Dawson's Creek and also had lead roles in a number of television pilots including The Precinct, Sherman's March, The Force, Man-Made, Club Paradise, and 111 Gramercy Park. He guest starred in the made-for-television movies Edna Buchanon and Tell Me No Secrets.
He was a competitive skier for many years, and is still an outdoors man. He enjoys activities such as skiing, rock climbing, surfing, tennis, mountain biking and horseback riding.
Flanigan is married to painter Katherine Flanigan. He and his wife have two children. The family lives in Vancouver, Canada while Joe is working at the Stargate Atlantis set. When not working on the Vancouver set of Stargate Atlantis, he and his family make their home in a 1926 English Tudor in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles.

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    Has anyone met Joe Flanigan? Share your experiences here. I met him last November in Manchester, UK. It was at a Collectormania event and I was able to have a photo with him and a autograph and sat in the second row of his 30/40 min talk about Atlantis. Next post I'll post some pics.

    7 comments, last one Apr 8, 2010
  • #JoeRockford

    There's talk that NBC might be bringing the Rockford File back and we hope Joe gets to do it, Jace Hall twittered and I think Joe would love to do it.

    4 comments, last one Feb 14, 2010
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  • Identify Flanigan Footage?

    Can anyone identify the true source of the footage in this YouTube clip? It is supposedly the final momentsof Season 4's last epsiode "Last Man". I've been told it isn't but no one will -- can? --identify the source material. If it is from the last epsiode it is an extremeMore spoiler!!!! The clip is here . Anne Teldy

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    When a single character takes over. hide show

    Joe Flanigan was great as John Sheppard in Stargate At, but I started to loss interest in it when it became too much about him. The show writers let his character take over the show is season 2 and after.

    This is why Torri Higginson left the show at the end of season 3 and why other characters did not improve (Dr. Carson Beckett) in the series. This is why the show did not last as long as SG1, it became too much about John Sheppard and fighting the Wraith.

    Many fans would agree as the show started to loss rating after Torri Higginson departed.

    By season 4 not even Amanda Tapping and Richard Picardo jointing the show could save it and why they made a deal with Sifi channel to bring the show to an end, when Sifi was just going to cancel it after season 4.

    Another show that did the same thing was Star Trek Voyager once Jeri Ryan jointed as Seven of Nine (a Borg drone) the show quickly became too much about her in seasons 5 and 6 almost all of the episodes was about her and the Borg.

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    10 Perfect
    The new Richard Dean Anderson?! hide show

    At the first few times I saw him, I was not really to thrilled with him.
    But I gave him another chance you might say, I might have compared him too much to our ol`trusted Richard Dean Anderson, he then showed his good timing and humour, much like Richard Dean Anderson.
    There is a few times when he can be a little static and repetitive but it seems to work well in Stargate as a military person and with that humour.

    He will most likely be a star in several more sci-fi shows over the time, cant wait for new episodes.

    But I like Ben Browder more :)

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    10 Perfect
    I loooooove this man: talented, cute, intelligent and has humour. Mr. Perfect... only: he has a wife... hide show

    IŽve seen him the first time Stargate Atlantis, of course. Sitting down on that chair and it begins...
    IŽve watched the WomenŽs murder club episodes with Joe as a detective, and his appearance many years ago in "Family Album" where he played a young gay man abandoned by his family. Played a bad and totally psychotic "superhero" in "Birds of prey" and a killer and women-basher in CSI Miami, both times showing he can not only be the good-looking soldier.
    IŽm sorry, that I didnŽt get to see "First monday" starring John as a lawyer, hope IŽll get to see it some day. Hope weŽll such more of him.

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    a great actor hide show

    Joe Flanigan (born January 5, 1967) is an American television actor best known as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis.

    Flanigan was born Joseph Dunnigan III in Los Angeles, California. His name was changed to Joseph Flanigan after he was adopted by his stepfather, John Flanigan. He has three brothers and four sisters. When he was six years old, his family moved to a small ranch near Reno, Nevada, although his stepfather objected to his ranch being called a "small" farm. Joe responds, "The trouble is, it is a small farm." However it is a somewhat coy mischaracterization of his stepfather who was a vice president at the family business, Anheuser Busch.

    From the age of 14 Flanigan attended a boarding school in Ojai, California where he appeared in the school's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He later earned a history degree at the University of Colorado where he was a world-class skier and appeared in Coriolanus. He took acting to overcome his shyness and never planned on an acting career. He spent a year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris as part of the Junior Year Abroad program and is fluent enough to joke around with French reporters in French.

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    My thoughts on Joe Flanigan hide show

    I find the character John Sheppard to be quite interesting, and watch the show to see where this particular member of the team is going, it seems that a great deal of the man's appeal to most fans of Atlantis is his appearance. He isn't as talented as David, although what interviews I have seen would make him out to be very deticated to his work, I still feel that this character is a bit lacking, and Joe isn't helping that any. He could do so much better. His best scenes are when he is with David, and I feel that David is the one that carries these scenes, not Joe.

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