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Chris Ellis Age: 68

Actor | Producer

    Chris Ellis is an American film and television actor who was born April 14, 1956 in Dallas, Texas. Ellis always wanted to be an actor because of television. He grew up in the 50's in the deep s

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    The Ghost Trap

    Doug Kane ( Actor )

    ... 2024

    Silo

    Mr. Adler ( Actor )

    ... 2021

    The Oath

    Hank ( Actor )

    ... 2018

Fullname:

Chris Ellis

Date of Birth:

Apr 14, 1956

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Chris Ellis

    Chris Ellis is an American film and television actor who was born April 14, 1956 in Dallas, Texas. Ellis always wanted to be an actor because of television. He grew up in the 50's in the deep south in a "world of privation and violence", but saw on television people who seemed to have lives of ease and privilege.

    It took him seven years to finish college however, because "I have always been shiftless". During those years Chris became involved in community theatre in Memphis, where "I did and do still think the quality of the work has always been quite good". By the time he moved to New York, he had worked with many excellent actors in about two dozen plays, classical and contemporary. "I cannot imagine what might have supplanted that background for a newcomer in New York."

    His first part in either television or film came in 1979, where he played a truck driver in the TV movie The Suicide's Wife, which starred Angie Dickinson. The role resulted in very little TV or film work. After working in regional theatre for a year or so, Chris fell off the radar screen and did not work for about ten years. During that time he lived in "bone-grinding poverty" in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. In one nine-month period of 1987, Chris accepted 102 dinner invitations. "I don't know why they kept arriving, nor why I counted them, though I do know why I accepted them."

    In 1990, a break came when he got a part in Days of Thunder, which starred Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Cary Elwes, Robert Duvall, and Randy Quaid. John C. Reilly and Fred Dalton Thompson also appear. This seemed to jump-start Ellis' career as parts in films like My Cousin Vinny with Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei, a small part in Addams Family Values, and a larger one in Apollo 13 as former NASA Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, alongside Tom Hanks, followed. He also began picking up credits on well-known television shows like Melrose Place, NYPD Blue, and The X-Files.

    Since working with Hanks on Apollo 13, the two have worked together on That Thing You Do, the TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, and Catch Me If You Can. Ellis returned to a fictional NASA Mission Control when he played a Flight Director in 1998's Armageddon.

    Additional films in which Ellis has appeared include Home Fries, October Sky, Live Free or Die Hard, and Transformers. His television credits also include The West Wing, Ghost Whisperer, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, Alias, JAG, CSI: NY, Burn Notice, and Cold Case. He appeared in three season one episodes of Millennium as group member Jim Panseayres. He has established a reputation as being particularly talented at portraying Southern lawmakers or serious military or police-type characters.

    He also appeared in Criminal Minds as Sheriff Jimmy Rhodes who calls for the BAU's help in investigating a string of murders in New Mexico. In addition to that, he also had two guest appearances in NCIS as Gunnery Sergeant John Deluca. Ellis's appearance in the Season 1 episode, "The Curse" was uncredited while his second and final appearance in Season 2's "The Bone Yard" was credited.

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Filmography of

Chris Ellis

Found 54 Movies in total

The Ghost Trap

Doug Kane ( Actor )

... 2024

Silo

Mr. Adler ( Actor )

... 2021

The Oath

Hank ( Actor )

... 2018

What Still Remains

Harvey ( Actor )

... 2018

The Show

Keller ( Actor )

... 2017

Amelia 2.0

Senator Thaddeus ( Actor )

... 2017

Pitching Tents

Principal Don Bishop ( Actor )

... 2017

Jessabelle

Sheriff Pruitt ( Actor )

... 2014

The Guest

Hendricks ( Actor )

... 2014

Faults

Dad ( Actor )

... 2014

The Dark Knight Rises

Fr. Reilly ( Actor )

... 2012

Teenage Dirtbag

Pops ( Actor )

... 2009

G-Force

NSA Director ( Actor )

... 2009

Crazy

Glen the Carousel Manager ( Actor )

... 2008

Gospel Hill

L Donn Murray ( Actor )

... 2008

Transformers

Admiral Brigham ( Actor )

... 2007

Live Free or Die Hard

Scalvino ( Actor )

... 2007

Believe in Me

Jim Stovall ( Actor )

... 2006

Fun with Dick and Jane

Vice President - Grand Cayman Bank ( Actor )

... 2005

The Devil's Rejects

Coggs ( Actor )

... 2005

The Island

Aces & Spades Barman ( Actor )

... 2005

Tiger Cruise

Captain Anderson ( Actor )

... 2004

Helter Skelter

Sgt. Whiteley ( Actor )

... 2004

Death and Texas

Phillip Brodeur ( Actor )

... 2004

In Enemy Hands

Samuel Littleton ( Actor )

... 2004

My Dinner with Jimi

Sergeant ( Actor )

... 2003

Love Liza

Patriot Model Aeronautics Clerk ( Actor )

... 2002

Catch Me If You Can

Special Agent Witkins ( Actor )

... 2002

Beyond the City Limits

Det. Hanson ( Actor )

... 2001

Domestic Disturbance

Detective Warren ( Actor )

... 2001

Daddy and Them

Dewey ( Actor )

... 2001

Planet of the Apes

Commander Karl Vasich ( Actor )

... 2001

The Watcher

Hollis ( Actor )

... 2000

October Sky

Principal Turner ( Actor )

... 1999

Home Fries

Henry Lever ( Actor )

... 1998

Armageddon

Flight Director Clark ( Actor )

... 1998

Godzilla

General Anderson ( Actor )

... 1998

Wag the Dog

Officer ( Actor )

... 1997

Sparkler

Buddy #1 ( Actor )

... 1997

Bean

Detective Butler ( Actor )

... 1997

Con Air

BOP Official Grant ( Actor )

... 1997

Her Costly Affair

Wes ( Actor )

... 1996

That Thing You Do!

Phil Horace ( Actor )

... 1996

If These Walls Could Talk

Crowd Leader ( Actor )

... 1996

The Tie That Binds

Security Guard #1 ( Actor )

... 1995

Apollo 13

Deke Slayton ( Actor )

... 1995

Crimson Tide

Additional Magician ( Actor )

... 1995

A Little Princess

Policeman ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1994

Addams Family Values

Moving Man ( Actor )

... 1993

Undercover Blues

Burt ( Actor )

... 1993

My Cousin Vinny

J.T. ( Actor )

... 1992

Days of Thunder

Harlem Hoogerhyde ( Actor )

... 1990