The Fastest Man Alive

John Wesley Shipp starred the action television series “The Flash” created from DC Comics characters by writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, premiered on September 1990 and lasted on May 1991. The series has only one season with twenty-one episode.

The tv series was focus with the exploits of Barry Allen played by John Wesly, a police scientist who met an accident and was struck by lighting and chemicals. Allen's electrified body is flung into and shatters a cabinet of chemicals, which are both electrified and forced to interact with each other. After the accident he learned that he gain such ability and he became the fastest man alive. He was helped by Tina McGee, S.T.A.R. Labs scientist for him to control his powers.

John Wesley Shipp is an American actor born on January 22, 1955 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a popular soap player and well known for his television series work. John always described as a nice guy and easy to work due to his professionalism. This handsome and talented actor was very intelligent and everybody's buddy. Due to hard work and dedication, he won in Daytime Emmy Awards. John was the only actor with consecutive wins from two different daytime dramas. On 1986, he won as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for "As the World Turns (1956)”. Then on the next year, John won as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for "Santa Barbara(1984)”.

Partial Filmography - TV Series

• Guiding Light (1980-1984)

• As the World Turns (1985-1986)

• Santa Barbara (1987)

• One Life to Live (1989)

• The Flash (1990)

• All My Children (1992)

• Sisters (1994-1995)

• Dawson's Creek (1998-2001)

• The Closer (2007)

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