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John Dukakis (born John A. Chaffetz; June 9, 1958) has had a varied career in politics and entertainment.
Dukakis was born John A. Chaffetz in San Jose, California but reared in the Boston area. He is the son of Kitty Dukakis and John Chaffetz, a businessman, and the adopted son of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, whom his mother married when he was five. His half brother, through his biological father, is Jason Chaffetz, the U.S. Representative (R) for Utah's 3rd district.
While attending Brown University in the mid-1970s, Dukakis was... MORE
John Dukakis (born John A. Chaffetz; June 9, 1958) has had a varied career in politics and entertainment.
Dukakis was born John A. Chaffetz in San Jose, California but reared in the Boston area. He is the son of Kitty Dukakis and John Chaffetz, a businessman, and the adopted son of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, whom his mother married when he was five. His half brother, through his biological father, is Jason Chaffetz, the U.S. Representative (R) for Utah's 3rd district.
While attending Brown University in the mid-1970s, Dukakis was cast in Universal's Jaws 2. He relocated to Hollywood and continued to work as an actor for the next 6 years. He had substantial roles in the films Making Love, Delusion and Split Image and on television in Family Ties, Little House on the Prairie, Taxi and the Jim Jones docudrama, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. He finished his career in New York working on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage.
After retiring from acting, he secured to a job in Washington, D.C. as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator John F. Kerry in Kerry's first two years in office. In 1987, when Michael Dukakis LESS
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