Chris Ellis
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.
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Fotos
Películas (60)
The Ghost Trap
2024 · Doug Kane
Silo
2021 · Mr. Adler
Kenny
2018 · Al
The Oath
2018 · Hank
What Still Remains
2018 · Harvey
The Show
2017 · Keller
Amelia 2.0
2017 · Senator Thaddeus Williams
Pitching Tents
2017 · Principal Don Bishop
McFarland, USA
2015 · Coach Jenks (as Chris Ellis Jr.)
Jessabelle
2014 · Sheriff Pruitt
The Guest
2014 · Hendricks
Faults
2014 · Dad
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Fr. Reilly
Teenage Dirtbag
2009 · Pops
G-Force
2009 · NSA Director
Crazy
2008 · Glen the Carousel Manager
Gospel Hill
2008 · L Donn Murray
Transformers
2007 · Admiral Brigham
Live Free or Die Hard
2007 · Capt. Jack Scalvino
Believe in Me
2006 · Jim Stovall
Sissy Frenchfry
2006 · Willinger McDodey
The Darkroom
2006 · Jackson
Fun with Dick and Jane
2005 · Vice President - Grand Cayman Bank
The Devil's Rejects
2005 · Coggs
The Island
2005 · Aces & Spades Barman
Tiger Cruise
2004 · Captain Anderson
Helter Skelter
2004 · Sgt. Whiteley
Death and Texas
2004 · Phillip Brodeur
In Enemy Hands
2004 · Samuel Littleton
Wonderland
2003 · Captain Nimziki
My Dinner with Jimi
2003 · Sergeant
Love Liza
2002 · Patriot Model Aeronautics Clerk
Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Special Agent Witkins
Beyond the City Limits
2001 · Det. Hanson
Domestic Disturbance
2001 · Detective Warren
Daddy and Them
2001 · Dewey
Planet of the Apes
2001 · Commander Karl Vasich
The Watcher
2000 · Hollis
October Sky
1999 · Principal Turner
Home Fries
1998 · Henry Lever
Armageddon
1998 · Flight Director Clark
Godzilla
1998 · General Anderson
On the Line
1998 · Officer Roux
Wag the Dog
1997 · Officer
Sparkler
1997 · Buddy #1
Bean
1997 · Detective Butler
Con Air
1997 · BOP Official Grant
Her Costly Affair
1996 · Wes
That Thing You Do!
1996 · Phil Horace
If These Walls Could Talk
1996 · Crowd Leader
The Tie That Binds
1995 · Security Guard #1
Apollo 13
1995 · Deke Slayton
Crimson Tide
1995 · Additional Magician
A Little Princess
1995 · Policeman
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994 · News Vendor
Addams Family Values
1993 · Moving Man
Undercover Blues
1993 · Burt
My Cousin Vinny
1992 · J.T.
Days of Thunder
1990 · Harlem Hoogerhyde
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982 · Clown
Series (49)
9-1-1: Lone Star
2020 · Derek Poole
Homecoming
2018 · Richard Lehmann
Young Sheldon
2017 · Marty Steinbecker
K.C. Undercover
2015 · Christos Markos
Political Animals
2012 · Jubal Jacobs
The Finder
2012 · Warden Nick Larsen
Fairly Legal
2011 · Maddox Resor
Harry's Law
2011
Law & Order: LA
2010 · Walter Exley
The Good Guys
2010 · Beau Teague
Justified
2010 · Douglas Cooper
Warehouse 13
2009 · Colonel Arnold Cassell
El mentalista
2008 · Sherrif Mullery
In Plain Sight
2008 · Reidell
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008 · Hayes
Mad Men
2007 · Del Hill
Burn Notice
2007 · Virgil Watkins
Vanished
2006 · Shelton
The Unit
2006 · Congressman Bruce Gelber
Ghost Whisperer
2005 · Captain Ken Nilsen
Mentes Criminales
2005 · Sheriff Rhodes
La Oficina
2005 · Chris O'Keefe
Veronica Mars
2004 · Reverend Ted Capistrano
CSI: NY
2004 · Vincent Williams
Cold Case
2003 · Jim Horn (2008)
NCIS: Criminología Naval
2003 · John Deluca
Las Vegas
2003 · Dr. Sassen
Birds of Prey
2002 · Larry Ketterly
First Monday
2002
Alias
2001 · Agent Chapman
Six Feet Under
2001 · Construction Worker #2
CSI: Las Vegas
2000 · Clinton Malton
Roswell
1999 · T. Greer
The West Wing
1999 · Congressman Fields
Family Law
1999 · Mr. Reese
Atomic Train
1999 · Ed Brown
From the Earth to the Moon
1998 · Bob Parker
The Practice
1997 · Zoning Board Chairman Donald Blane
Millennium
1996 · Jim Penseyres
The Pretender
1996 · Daniel Crockett
Promised Land
1996 · Brian Pascal
Arli$$
1996 · Henneman, Maynard Dupree
Space: Above and Beyond
1995 · Adm. Stenner
Murder One
1995 · Mr. Switzer
Chicago Hope
1994 · Bill Erskine
Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · Leonard Wilson
NYPD Blue
1993 · Marshal
The X-Files
1993 · Sheriff Lance Hindt
Melrose Place
1992 · Cop