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McGinley (also known as Johnny C. and sometimes credited as John McGinley), has had a prolific career, primarily as a supporting character actor. While working as John Turturro's understudy in John Patrick Shanley's 1984 production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea he was noticed by a casting scout, which led to an audition for the role of Sergeant Red O'Neill in the Oscar-winning Platoon, although his first movie role was Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty (1986). He also was featured in a 1980s Subaru commercial. In 1986, McGinley appeared in the promo video, Peace Sells, for Megadeth.

That was followed the next year with Wall Street (1987), and again the next with Talk Radio (1988). McGinley wrote the script for 1990s Suffering Bastards, in which he also co-starred. He worked continually throughout the 1990s, appearing in films such as Point Break (1991), Wagons East! (1994), Se7en (1995), The Rock (1996), Nothing to Lose (1997) and Office Space (1999) (McGinley improvised several takes about his character's affinity for Michael Bolton). Most recently, he had a role as Chuck in the film Are We Done Yet?. He has also had a small role as a homosexual highway patrolman in the Touchstone Pictures film Wild Hogs.

McGinley received critical acclaim for his performance as a serial killer in Dean Koontz's suspense drama, Intensity (1997). It became Fox's highest-rated miniseries. He worked with Koontz and Fox once more in Sole Survivor (2000).

(wikipedia.org)