# John C. Mcginley's character in Seven
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 3, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004 "2006-11-03T18:06:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Tanglewood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanglewood)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/1 "2006-11-03T18:06:00Z")
Okay, I’m sorry. I really am. This is quite possible the most mundane and redundant thread ever posted on the SDMB. But you see…I’ve got this question that’s absolutely bugging the _shit_ out of me and so help me _God_ I need an answer.
According to the Internet Movie Database John C. Mcginley (also known as Dr Cox from ‘Scrubs’) played a character called “California” in the movie Seven.
Now, I’ve seen Seven about three _thousand_ times and not once have I ever seen hide or hair of this character.
Could anyone tell me what this “California” dude does in the movie, and maybe what he looks like? I’m seriously being driven bugfuck _insane_ here.
Thanks a million.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/2 "2006-11-03T18:09:22Z")
If you didn’t see California, it’s probably San Andrea’s fault.
I’ll be here all week. Please don’t throw any tomatoes.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/3 "2006-11-03T18:12:23Z")
McGinley is front and center on, IIRC, the raid on Sloth’s house, but the one time I remember Freeman actually referring to him by name is when he’s talking to him on the radio during John Doe’s last stand. California is in the helicopter with the sniper rifle. I don’t remember any lines of distinction he has.
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### Author:  [@Tanglewood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanglewood)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/4 "2006-11-03T18:21:07Z")
Ah, nice one **Archive Guy**!. You wouldn’t believe how much that was annoying me 🙂
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/5 "2006-11-03T18:31:09Z")
Script of Se7en : [http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/se7en.html](http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/se7en.html)
It seems that “California” is a red-headed cop.
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### Author:  [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/6 "2006-11-03T19:46:56Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
McGinley is front and center on, IIRC, the raid on Sloth’s house, but the one time I remember Freeman actually referring to him by name is when he’s talking to him on the radio during John Doe’s last stand. California is in the helicopter with the sniper rifle. I don’t remember any lines of distinction he has.
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I seem to remember him being in the helicopter at the end and after the great unfortunateness, made a few comments over the radio, “Somebody call someone” being the one I remember the most.
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/7 "2006-11-03T22:39:58Z")
If your scene winds up on the cutting-room floor, do you still appear in the credits?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/8 "2006-11-03T22:47:48Z")
Usually not under the cast list, but it can appear elsewhere, like when Orlando Jones was cut almost completely from _Magnolia_\* (nothing that remained couldn’t have been handled by a body double) and got a Special Thanks instead.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/9 "2006-11-03T23:16:17Z")
Unless it’s a movie within a movie.\* All of Gillian Anderson’s scenes were cut from _Tristram Shandy_, but not from _Tristram Shandy_. So she got to complain about having all her scenes cut, AND be in the credits!
- 😉
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-c-mcginleys-character-in-seven/379004/10 "2006-11-03T23:25:12Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie]
If your scene winds up on the cutting-room floor, do you still appear in the credits?
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Yes, if it’s a speaking part, though a credit can be waived (or in the case of Judson Scott, fumbled away). _Naked Gun 33 1/3_ had credits for “PEOPLE WHO WERE CUT OUT OF THE MOVIE, BUT IT WASN’T THEIR FAULT”.