John Heard has passed away at the age of seventy-two, and both Deadline’s Denise Petski and Variety’s Pat Saperstein are claiming that he was best known as Peter McCallister, the father of Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone movies. Well, probably so. But two earlier performances immediately spring to my mind: Charles Richardson in Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter (image above), originally released in 1979 as Head Over Heels with an upbeat ending, and then re-released in 1982 with an ending (and title) that hued closer to that of the Ann Beattie novel on which it was based; and Alex Cutter in Ivan Passer’s Cutter's Way (1981), another film originally released with a different title, Cutter and Bone.
“The Washington, DC native’s acting career began in the 1970s in an off-Broadway production of Mark Medoff’s play The Wager,” writes Petski. “He then segued to television, playing the role of Arthur Dimmesdale in a production of The Scarlet Letter.”
As Saperstein notes, Heard would go on to appear in dozens of films, including Paul Schrader’s Cat People (1982), Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985), Penny Marshall’s Big (1988), and Garry Marshall’s Beaches (1988), “and on TV in Miami Vice and The Sopranos, for which he won an Emmy nomination.”
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