Trivia

He played Barry Allen / The Flash in The Flash (1990) and his father Henry Allen in The Flash (2014).

His father was the Minister at Ridgecrest Baptist Church when he was attending High School in Wake Forest, NC. One night while some friends of his were visiting, gunshots were fired through the brick walls of his house. It is assumed that it was the KKK who fired the shots, because a few of those friends were African American. If you can find the old T.V. guide from around that time, John gave an interview where he talked about the incident.

Won two consecutive daytime Emmy awards for his soap work -- the first for As the World Turns (1956) and the second for Santa Barbara (1984).

Lived in New York City to study acting following college and earned his first daytime claim to fame playing Dr. Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light (1952) in 1980.

Ship and co-star Grant Gustin, who plays Barry Allen on The Flash (2014), were both born in Norfolk, Virginia.

In 2015, Shipp won the Audio Verse Award as Best Actor with a Leading Role in an Original, Short-Form, Serial Production for the scripted podcast Western "Powder Burns" (Apple Podcasts).

Appeared on Broadway in two dramas, making his debut as Harvey Feirstein's love interest in "Safe Sex". Shipp later appeared in a production of Brian Friel's award-winning "Dancing at Lughnasa".

Mr. Shipp won a 2017 Voice Arts Award for his performance on the scripted podcast Western "Powder Burns" (Apple Podcasts). He is a three-time nominee for the award. The show is the creation of writer/producer David A. Gregory. The two played father and son on ABC's "One Life to Live".

Shipp appeared was on the series Sisters (1991) (1994-95) as Lucky Williams.

Starred in a workshop production of David A. Gregory's new play "Hank & Jim Build a Plane", a two-hander about the friendship between Henry Fonda & James Stewart, at Le Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in the fall of 2019. Shipp played the Fonda role.