Chris Ellis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-04-14 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Dallas, Texas, USA

Chris Ellis

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1998

Armageddon

as Flight Director Clark

1998

Godzilla

as General Anderson

1995

Apollo 13

as Deke Slayton

1997

Bean

as Detective Butler

2002

Catch Me If You Can

as Special Agent Witkins

2007

Live Free or Die Hard

as Capt. Jack Scalvino

1992

2000

The Watcher

as Hollis

1997

Sparkler

as Buddy #1

2008

Gospel Hill

as L Donn Murray

2004

In Enemy Hands

as Samuel Littleton

1998

Home Fries

as Henry Lever

2009

2003

1999

October Sky

as Principal Turner

1997

Wag the Dog

as Officer

2009

G-Force

as NSA Director

2014

Jessabelle

as Sheriff Pruitt

2004

Tiger Cruise

as Captain Anderson

2004

Helter Skelter

as Sgt. Whiteley

1993

2006

Sissy Frenchfry

as Willinger McDodey

1996

That Thing You Do!

as Phil Horace

2014

Faults

as Dad

1995

A Little Princess

as Policeman

2002

Love Liza

as Patriot Model Aeronautics Clerk

2024

The Ghost Trap

as Doug Kane

2001

2012

2018

2008

Crazy

as Glen the Carousel Manager

2004

Death and Texas

as Phillip Brodeur

1995

The Tie That Binds

as Security Guard #1

2017

The Show

as Keller

2007

Transformers

as Admiral Brigham

2017

Pitching Tents

as Principal Don Bishop

1996

2005

The Island

as Aces & Spades Barman

2001

Planet of the Apes

as Commander Karl Vasich

2017

Amelia 2.0

as Senator Thaddeus Williams

2018

The Oath

as Hank

2018

Kenny

as Al

1993

2001

2005

Fun with Dick and Jane

as Vice President - Grand Cayman Bank

2001

Domestic Disturbance

as Detective Warren

2014

The Guest

as Hendricks

1990

Days of Thunder

as Harlem Hoogerhyde

1997

Con Air

as BOP Official Grant

1995

Crimson Tide

as Additional Magician

2021

Silo

as Mr. Adler

2006

Believe in Me

as Jim Stovall

2003

Wonderland

as Captain Nimziki

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