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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

6.833

Armageddon
1998-07-01

5.7

Godzilla
1998-05-20

7.463

Apollo 13
1995-06-30

6.482

Bean
1997-07-03

Catch Me If You Can

7.978

Catch Me If You Can
2002-12-16

Live Free or Die Hard

6.643

Live Free or Die Hard
2007-06-20

My Cousin Vinny

7.498

My Cousin Vinny
1992-03-13

5.142

The Watcher
2000-09-08

4.25

Sparkler
1997-10-01

4.7

Gospel Hill
2008-02-09

5.858

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

7.678

October Sky
1999-02-19

6.937

Wag the Dog
1997-12-25

5.488

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

5.4

Jessabelle
2014-11-07

6

Tiger Cruise
2004-08-06

5.75

Helter Skelter
2004-07-23

Undercover Blues

6.041

Undercover Blues
1993-09-10

Sissy Frenchfry

4.833

Sissy Frenchfry
2006-07-15

That Thing You Do!

6.883

That Thing You Do!
1996-10-04

6.669

Faults
2014-03-06

A Little Princess

7.621

A Little Princess
1995-05-10

6.417

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

7.8

The Dark Knight Rises
2012-07-17

What Still Remains

5.2

What Still Remains
2018-08-14

5.548

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

5.689

The Show
2017-09-21

6.84

Transformers
2007-06-27

5.533

Pitching Tents
2017-03-31

If These Walls Could Talk

6.659

If These Walls Could Talk
1996-09-11

6.698

The Island
2005-07-21

Planet of the Apes

5.773

Planet of the Apes
2001-07-26

5.5

Amelia 2.0
2017-08-04

5.625

The Oath
2018-10-12

0

Kenny
2018-10-15

Her Costly Affair

4

Her Costly Affair
1996-10-28

Addams Family Values

6.978

Addams Family Values
1993-11-19

5.41

Daddy and Them
2001-10-26

Fun with Dick and Jane

6.225

Fun with Dick and Jane
2005-12-21

The Devil's Rejects

6.728

The Devil's Rejects
2005-07-22

Domestic Disturbance

5.763

Domestic Disturbance
2001-10-28

6.629

The Guest
2014-09-05

Days of Thunder

6.389

Days of Thunder
1990-06-27

6.8

Con Air
1997-06-05

7.185

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

6.389

Believe in Me
2006-09-07

6.072

Wonderland
2003-10-23

7.486

McFarland, USA
2015-02-20

4.867

The Darkroom
2006-01-01

3.2

On the Line
1998-01-15

8.108

Six Feet Under
2001-06-03

7.788

Veronica Mars
2004-09-22

Ghost Whisperer

8.072

Ghost Whisperer
2005-09-23

6.802

Alias
2001-09-30

7.372

The Pretender
1996-09-19

7.307

The Unit
2006-03-07

7.747

Cold Case
2003-09-28

7.32

CSI: NY
2004-09-22

7.47

Burn Notice
2007-06-28

8.303

Criminal Minds
2005-09-22

8.371

The X-Files
1993-09-10

9-1-1: Lone Star

8

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

7.714

Millennium
1996-10-25

5.786

Melrose Place
1992-07-08

7.727

Roswell
1999-10-06

6.5

First Monday
2002-01-15

7.181

Chicago Hope
1994-09-18

8.083

Family Law
1999-09-20

K.C. Undercover

7.765

K.C. Undercover
2015-01-18

6.2

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

7.122

Political Animals
2012-07-15

8.126

Mad Men
2007-07-19

From the Earth to the Moon

8.108

From the Earth to the Moon
1998-04-05

8.366

The Mentalist
2008-09-23

Law & Order: LA

6.833

Law & Order: LA
2010-09-29

Space: Above and Beyond

7.263

Space: Above and Beyond
1995-09-24

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.624

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06

7.091

The Finder
2012-01-12

7.981

Justified
2010-03-16

6.5

Promised Land
1996-09-17

6.525

Fairly Legal
2011-01-20

7.7

Murder One
1995-09-20

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

7.476

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008-01-13

7.685

Warehouse 13
2009-07-07

7.611

NCIS
2003-09-23

8

Young Sheldon
2017-09-25

6.963

Homecoming
2018-11-01

8.587

The Office
2005-03-24

6.786

Arli$$
1996-08-10

7.038

Las Vegas
2003-09-22

7.04

NYPD Blue
1993-09-21

7.5

Harry's Law
2011-01-17

7.1

In Plain Sight
2008-06-01

7.664

The Practice
1997-03-04

7.246

The Good Guys
2010-05-19

6.786

Arli$$
1996-08-10

5.688

Vanished
2006-08-21