Geoff Stults
Geoffrey Manton Stults (born December 15, 1977) is an American actor. His first regular roles on television included 7th Heaven, October Road, and Happy Town. He went on to star as Major Walter Sherman on The Finder, Sgt. Pete Hill on Enlisted, and Marco Strzalkowski on Guilty Party. He also played the recurring role of Mitch on seasons 1-3 of the hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie. His film roles include Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, She's Out of My League, Only the Brave, and 12 Strong. As of April 2023, he has most recently been seen as Jake opposite Jennifer Garner in The Last Thing He Told Me.
Geoff Stults | |
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Born | Geoffrey Manton Stults December 15, 1977 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2000–present |
Early life
Stults was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. His brother is actor George Stults. He graduated from Manitou Springs High School. He moved to Los Angeles, and began to perform in the college theater productions while attending Whittier College, in Whittier, California where he also played football.[1]
Career
Football career
He played professional American Football in the Austrian Football League as a wide receiver for the Klosterneuburg Mercenaries (now known as the Danube Dragons).[2]
Acting career
Stults started his acting career at the age of seven by doing commercials alongside his brother George. He appeared on Everybody Loves Raymond as a mailman in the episode "What's with Robert?" He landed his first major role in 2002 as Ben Kinkirk, a fireman at the department in which Mary Camden was training and Mary's soon-to-be new love interest, on the show 7th Heaven.[3] The role of Ben's brother, Kevin Kinkirk, was portrayed by George Stults, his real life brother. Stults portrayed Eddie Latekka for two seasons on the popular ABC drama series October Road.
His first major film role came in 2004, when he played the male lead in the female action-comedy D.E.B.S., where he met his future co-star on The Finder, Michael Clarke Duncan. Since then, Stults has had small but memorable roles in Wedding Crashers and The Break-Up, as well as larger roles in The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, She's Out Of My League and L!fe Happens.
In 2010, Stults played Dan (an amalgamation of the book's popular characters El Bingeroso/PWJ/GoldenBoy) in the film adaptation of I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell. He starred in the short-lived ABC television series Happy Town and appeared on How I Met Your Mother.
At the 2011 network upfronts, Fox announced that it picked up the Bones spin-off, The Finder, starring Stults in the lead role of Walter Sherman (a.k.a. The Finder), an Iraq war veteran who, after a brain injury from an exploding IED, was left with the extraordinary skill of finding anybody or anything. The show co-starred Duncan, Mercedes Masohn, and Maddie Hasson. It premiered January 12, 2012, as a mid-season replacement for Bones. The show was canceled and the final episode aired on May 11, 2012.
Stults later guest starred in Stargirl as Courtney Whitmore's father Sam Kurtis.
Personal life
In June 2005, Stults was reported to be in a relationship with actress and former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler.[4] The pair appeared together on MTV's Punk'd, with Keibler as the recipient of the prank.[5] Keibler and Stults were part-owners of the Hollywood Fame, a 2006 expansion franchise of the American Basketball Association.[6] The team went defunct after only one season.[7][8] Stults and Keibler split in 2010.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2001 | Thank You, Good Night | Frat Boy | |
2002 | Nantucket | Steve Foster | |
No Place Like Home | Moses | Credited as Geoff Stultz | |
King's Highway | Todd King | ||
2004 | Bring It On Again | Football Player | Video |
D.E.B.S. | Bobby | ||
2005 | Wedding Crashers | Craig Garthe | |
In the Mix | Chad | ||
2006 | The Break-Up | Mike | |
Carjacking | Tom | Short | |
Day 73 with Sarah | Steve | Short | |
2008 | The Express: The Ernie Davis Story | Bob Lundy | |
2009 | I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | Dan | |
2010 | She's Out of My League | Cam | |
Hot for Teachers | Jack Slater | Video Short | |
2011 | L!fe Happens | Nicolas | |
J. Edgar | Raymond Caffrey | ||
2014 | The Opposite Sex | Vince | |
2017 | Unforgettable | David | |
High Low Forty | Cletus | ||
Only The Brave | Travis Turbyfill | ||
2018 | 12 Strong | Sean Coffers |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2000 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Mailman | Episode: "What's With Robert?" |
Undressed | Dale | 3 episodes | |
L.A. 7 | Sam | Episode: "The Prom" | |
Spin City | Blake | Episode: "Smile" | |
2001 | Grounded for Life | Room Service Guy | Episode: "Like a Virgin" |
The Chronicle | Luther Stubbs | Episode: "Let Sleeping Dogs Fry" | |
2001–2006 | 7th Heaven | Ben Kinkirk | Series regular (season 7), recurring role (season 6 & 9), guest star (season 11) |
2002 | Project Viper | Young Zack Lover | TV movie |
2003 | L.A. Dragnet | Lee Calof | Episode: "The Big Ruckus" |
2004 | Joey | Jake | Episode: "Joey and the Party" |
Las Vegas | Jay | Episode: "Catch of the Day" | |
2004 | Hollywood Division | Det. Vincent Booth | TV movie |
2005 | Confessions of an American Bride | Luke Stinson | TV movie |
2005–2006 | Reunion | Peter Holland | Recurring star, 5 episodes |
2007–2008 | October Road | Eddie Latekka | Series regular, 19 episodes |
2010 | Happy Town | Tommy Conroy | Series regular, 8 episodes |
How I Met Your Mother | Max | 2 episodes | |
2011 | Bones | Walter Sherman | Episode: "The Finder" |
Mad Love | Tom Stevens | Episode: "After the Fireworks" | |
2012 | The Finder | Walter Sherman | Series regular, 13 episodes |
Ben and Kate | Will | Recurring star, 5 episodes | |
2014 | Enlisted | Sergeant Pete Hill | Series regular, 13 episodes |
Cuz-Bros | Nick | TV movie | |
2015–2017 | The Odd Couple | Murph | Recurring star |
2015 | Zoo | FBI Agent Ben Shafer | Recurring star[9] |
2015 & 2017 | Grace and Frankie | Mitch | Recurring star |
2018 | Man with a Plan | Leif Forrest | 2 episodes |
2019 | Black Monday | post-production | |
The Neighborhood | Logan | Episode: "Welcome to Logan #2" | |
2020 | Stargirl | Sam Kurtis | Episode: "Shining Knight" |
2021 | Guilty Party | Marco Baker | Main role |
2021 | Cowboy Bebop | Chalmers | Recurring role |
2023 | The Company You Keep | Simon Norris | |
2023 | The Last Thing He Told Me | Jake | Miniseries |
References
- Geoff Stults - Celebopedia - Geoff Stults Entry In The Celebrity Archived 2010-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Biographien: Geoff Stults
- Geoff Stults on TV.com
- "Geoff Stults Responds To Ex-Girlfriend Dating Fellow Actor; Any Thoughts On Getting Married Busy With Career?". Live Rampup. Archived from the original on February 10, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- "DJ Paul, Stacy Keibler, and Elisha Cuthbert". Punk'd. Season 7. Episode 3. MTV.
- "Are Stacy Keibler and Nick Lachey the New Mark Cuban?". SportsFan Magazine. 2006-08-29. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
- "Opportunity exciting one for Williams". Long Beach Press-Telegram. 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- "Dead Balls". Slam Magazine. 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- Abrams, Natalie (February 27, 2015). "CBS' summer series Zoo taps Geoff Stults for multi-episode arc". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
External links
- Geoff Stults at IMDb
- Geoff Stults on Instagram
- Geoff Stults on Twitter