John Wesley Shipp

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John Wesley Shipp

John Wesley Shipp is an American actor best known as Barry Allen in the 1990 CBS series The Flash, and as Henry Allen, Barry's father, in the 2014 series The Flash, where he also played Jay Garrick, an alternate-universe Flash, and a version of his original Barry Allen from Earth-90.

His other work includes Mitch Leery, the title character's father, in Dawson's Creek.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1955, he won Daytime Emmy Awards for As the World Turns in 1986 and Santa Barbara in 1987.

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