John Wesley Shipp

Age: 71

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John Wesley Shipp (born January 22, 1955) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur and actor known for his various television roles. He played the lead Barry Allen on CBS's superhero series The Flash from 1990 to 1991, and Mitch Leery, the title character's father, on the drama series Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2001. Shipp has also played several roles in daytime soap operas including Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from 1980 to 1984, and Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns from 1985 to 1986 (which earned him his first Daytime Emmy Award). In 2014, he was cast as Barry Allen's father Henry on the current The Flash series on The CW network.

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John Wesley Shipp

Barry Allen

for Barry Allen in SoundWave

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SoundWave

Picture This a kid from high school who was a star football who lives in a foster home and while during a game his speed accelerates and he doesn't know why and then later finds out that he got it from his father the Flash. After that, he thinks of it as a sign that he is meant to do good things and becomes his own hero known as SoundWave. Destined to be like his father he seeks training from his father's arch-enemy reverse flash who is now a cop and he will stop at nothing to be a new hero in his hometown of Smallville.

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John Wesley Shipp

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SoundWave

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