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Chris Ellis
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1956-04-14,Dallas, Texas, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Chris Ellis (born April 14, 1956) is an American film and television actor. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Ellis (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

6.834

Armageddon
1998-07-01

5.652

Godzilla
1998-05-20

6.473

Bean
1997-07-03

7.461

Apollo 13
1995-06-30

Catch Me If You Can

7.979

Catch Me If You Can
2002-12-16

Live Free or Die Hard

6.644

Live Free or Die Hard
2007-06-20

My Cousin Vinny

7.499

My Cousin Vinny
1992-03-13

5.139

The Watcher
2000-09-08

4.25

Sparkler
1997-10-01

4.7

Gospel Hill
2008-02-09

5.848

In Enemy Hands
2004-02-25

5.147

Home Fries
1998-11-25

Teenage Dirtbag

6.46

Teenage Dirtbag
2009-10-20

My Dinner with Jimi

5.8

My Dinner with Jimi
2003-02-16

7.671

October Sky
1999-02-19

6.939

Wag the Dog
1997-12-25

5.489

G-Force
2009-07-24

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

5.7

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994-01-23

5.435

Jessabelle
2014-11-07

6

Tiger Cruise
2004-08-06

5.8

Helter Skelter
2004-07-23

Undercover Blues

6.071

Undercover Blues
1993-09-10

Sissy Frenchfry

4.833

Sissy Frenchfry
2006-07-15

That Thing You Do!

6.9

That Thing You Do!
1996-10-04

6.664

Faults
2014-03-06

A Little Princess

7.6

A Little Princess
1995-05-10

6.4

Love Liza
2002-12-30

8.4

The Ghost Trap
2024-04-19

Beyond the City Limits

4.737

Beyond the City Limits
2001-12-17

The Dark Knight Rises

7.796

The Dark Knight Rises
2012-07-17

What Still Remains

5.22

What Still Remains
2018-08-14

5.525

Crazy
2008-03-02

Death and Texas

6.25

Death and Texas
2004-03-12

The Tie That Binds

4.907

The Tie That Binds
1995-09-08

5.685

The Show
2017-09-21

6.831

Transformers
2007-06-27

5.5

Pitching Tents
2017-03-31

If These Walls Could Talk

6.659

If These Walls Could Talk
1996-09-11

6.697

The Island
2005-07-21

Planet of the Apes

5.772

Planet of the Apes
2001-07-26

5.5

Amelia 2.0
2017-08-04

5.646

The Oath
2018-10-12

0

Kenny
2018-10-15

Her Costly Affair

4

Her Costly Affair
1996-10-28

Addams Family Values

6.973

Addams Family Values
1993-11-19

5.41

Daddy and Them
2001-10-26

Fun with Dick and Jane

6.224

Fun with Dick and Jane
2005-12-21

The Devil's Rejects

6.735

The Devil's Rejects
2005-07-22

Domestic Disturbance

5.772

Domestic Disturbance
2001-10-28

6.635

The Guest
2014-09-05

Days of Thunder

6.367

Days of Thunder
1990-06-27

6.777

Con Air
1997-06-05

7.2

Crimson Tide
1995-05-12

4.8

Silo
2021-05-07

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

5.333

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982-02-27

6.471

Believe in Me
2006-09-07

6.1

Wonderland
2003-10-23

7.5

McFarland, USA
2015-02-20

4.9

The Darkroom
2006-01-01

3.2

On the Line
1998-01-15

8.1

Six Feet Under
2001-06-03

7.799

Veronica Mars
2004-09-22

Ghost Whisperer

8.073

Ghost Whisperer
2005-09-23

6.8

Alias
2001-09-30

7.4

The Pretender
1996-09-19

7.352

The Unit
2006-03-07

7.8

Cold Case
2003-09-28

7.312

CSI: NY
2004-09-22

7.476

Burn Notice
2007-06-28

8.3

Criminal Minds
2005-09-22

8.373

The X-Files
1993-09-10

9-1-1: Lone Star

8.034

9-1-1: Lone Star
2020-01-19

7.706

Millennium
1996-10-25

5.9

Melrose Place
1992-07-08

7.732

Roswell
1999-10-06

6.5

First Monday
2002-01-15

7.25

Chicago Hope
1994-09-18

8.083

Family Law
1999-09-20

K.C. Undercover

7.784

K.C. Undercover
2015-01-18

6.177

Birds of Prey
2002-10-09

Diagnosis: Murder

7.1

Diagnosis: Murder
1993-10-29

8.3

The West Wing
1999-09-22

Political Animals

7.1

Political Animals
2012-07-15

8.1

Mad Men
2007-07-19

From the Earth to the Moon

8.104

From the Earth to the Moon
1998-04-05

8.354

The Mentalist
2008-09-23

Law & Order: LA

6.81

Law & Order: LA
2010-09-29

Space: Above and Beyond

7.224

Space: Above and Beyond
1995-09-24

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.637

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06

7.103

The Finder
2012-01-12

7.973

Justified
2010-03-16

6.5

Promised Land
1996-09-17

6.56

Fairly Legal
2011-01-20

7.7

Murder One
1995-09-20

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

7.472

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008-01-13

7.672

Warehouse 13
2009-07-07

7.622

NCIS
2003-09-23

8

Young Sheldon
2017-09-25

6.961

Homecoming
2018-11-01

8.589

The Office
2005-03-24

6.769

Arli$$
1996-08-10

7.039

Las Vegas
2003-09-22

7.1

NYPD Blue
1993-09-21

7.447

Harry's Law
2011-01-17

7.1

In Plain Sight
2008-06-01

7.664

The Practice
1997-03-04

7.238

The Good Guys
2010-05-19

6.769

Arli$$
1996-08-10