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John Shea

36 credited titles on WatchWise

John Victor Shea III (born April 14, 1949) is an American actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret. Later on in the 2000s he starred on the series Mutant X as Adam Kane. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Shea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John Shea in one minute

Strongest genre

Comedy

$14M · 100% hit rate

Biggest hit

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

$96M

Standout efficiency

3.0x

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$17M

Combined reported budget

$6.2M

Gross / budget

2.7x

Bankability Index

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