- At 27, he played 44-year-old Captain Keller in an award-winning production of The Miracle Worker Off-Broadway and at Paper Mill Playhouse. Paul Craggs, who played his 20-year-old son, James, was actually 30 at the time and three years his senior.
- He is married to actress, writer, sociopolitical satirist, and environmental activist, Cynthia Adler.
- He is an avid and passionate gardener. His vegetable garden is permanent-raised beds, kept strictly organic.
- He is an artist in a family of artists. His drawings are Hyperrealism in graphite or graphite and charcoal. Two of his siblings prefer to work in oil or acrylic paints, one likes color pencils, and the other prefers to work with leather.
- Two of his brothers have degrees in Art.
- His paternal grandfather was born in the back of a covered wagon somewhere in the Oklahoma territory.
- His parents were married at ages 16 and 17 in 1941 just after the war began, and their first child was born in '43. On December 30, 2014, they celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.
- He did three plays with Joseph Papp directing-Richard II and Henry IV in Central Park and Forbidden City at the Public Theater.
- He is the middle child of five. He has an older brother and sister and two younger brothers.
- He played four different characters in one season of the series "Petrocelli." Three were guest star roles, the other a witness in court.
- His maternal grandfather came through Ellis Island from Denmark in 1909 at age 19.
- He was Student Body President of his high school in Casa Grande, Arizona.
- His great uncle Perry Powers doubled for Will Rogers in the movies. Powers did many of Rogers' rope tricks, as well as the trick riding and shooting. In 1932, Powers loaned his pal Gene Autry a white shirt to get married in.
- When he was born, his family lived in Osage County, Oklahoma, and the nearest hospital was in a town over 20 miles away. They had never been there and had to stop at a gas station to get directions to the hospital. John Henry was delivered 15 minutes after they arrived. He came that close to being birthed in the back seat of a '48 Chevy.
- A recipient of Village Voice Obie Award for playing a Brit in Stephen Bill's award-winning play Curtains, directed by Scott Elliott of The New Group.
- He played Banquo to Nicol Williamson's Macbeth at Circle in the Square.
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