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Chris Ellis‌

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Birthday

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Popularity

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Chris Ellis

Dallas, Texas, USA

Chris Ellis

Dallas, Texas, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1956-04-14

Popularity

star6.6

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 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.

Movie Credits

Armageddon

Armageddon‌
star6.8
calendar 1998

Godzilla

Godzilla‌
star5.6
calendar 1998

Apollo 13

Apollo 13‌
star7.4
calendar 1995

Bean

Bean‌
star6.5
calendar 1997

Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can‌
star8.0
calendar 2002

Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard‌
star6.6
calendar 2007

My Cousin Vinny

My Cousin Vinny‌
star7.5
calendar 1992

The Watcher

The Watcher‌
star5.1
calendar 2000

Sparkler

Sparkler‌
star2.5
calendar 1997

Gospel Hill

Gospel Hill‌
star4.7
calendar 2008

In Enemy Hands

In Enemy Hands‌
star5.8
calendar 2004

Home Fries

Home Fries‌
star5.1
calendar 1998

Teenage Dirtbag

Teenage Dirtbag‌
star6.4
calendar 2009

My Dinner with Jimi

My Dinner with Jimi‌
star4.3
calendar 2003

October Sky

October Sky‌
star7.7
calendar 1999

Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog‌
star7.0
calendar 1997

G-Force

G-Force‌
star5.5
calendar 2009

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance‌
star3.5
calendar 1994

Jessabelle

Jessabelle‌
star5.4
calendar 2014

Tiger Cruise

Tiger Cruise‌
star6.1
calendar 2004

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter‌
star5.9
calendar 2004

Undercover Blues

Undercover Blues‌
star6.0
calendar 1993

Sissy Frenchfry

Sissy Frenchfry‌
star5.0
calendar 2006

That Thing You Do!

That Thing You Do!‌
star6.9
calendar 1996

Faults

Faults‌
star6.7
calendar 2014

A Little Princess

A Little Princess‌
star7.6
calendar 1995

Love Liza

Love Liza‌
star6.3
calendar 2002

The Ghost Trap

The Ghost Trap‌
star0.0
calendar 2024

Beyond the City Limits

Beyond the City Limits‌
star5.4
calendar 2001

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises‌
star7.8
calendar 2012

What Still Remains

What Still Remains‌
star5.1
calendar 2018

Crazy

Crazy‌
star5.5
calendar 2008

Death and Texas

Death and Texas‌
star6.0
calendar 2004

The Tie That Binds

The Tie That Binds‌
star4.8
calendar 1995

The Show

The Show‌
star5.7
calendar 2017

Transformers

Transformers‌
star6.8
calendar 2007

Pitching Tents

Pitching Tents‌
star5.6
calendar 2017

If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk‌
star6.6
calendar 1996

The Island

The Island‌
star6.7
calendar 2005

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes‌
star5.8
calendar 2001

Amelia 2.0

Amelia 2.0‌
star5.5
calendar 2017

The Oath

The Oath‌
star5.7
calendar 2018

Kenny

Kenny‌
star0.0
calendar 2018

Her Costly Affair

Her Costly Affair‌
star4.0
calendar 1996

Addams Family Values

Addams Family Values‌
star7.0
calendar 1993

Daddy and Them

Daddy and Them‌
star5.5
calendar 2001

Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane‌
star6.2
calendar 2005

The Devil's Rejects

The Devil's Rejects‌
star6.7
calendar 2005

Domestic Disturbance

Domestic Disturbance‌
star5.8
calendar 2001

The Guest

The Guest‌
star6.7
calendar 2014

Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder‌
star6.4
calendar 1990

Con Air

Con Air‌
star6.7
calendar 1997

Crimson Tide

Crimson Tide‌
star7.2
calendar 1995

Silo

Silo‌
star4.6
calendar 2021

Tv Credits

Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under‌
star8.1
calendar 2001

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars‌
star7.8
calendar 2004

Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer‌
star8.1
calendar 2005

Alias

Alias‌
star6.7
calendar 2001

The Pretender

The Pretender‌
star7.4
calendar 1996

The Unit

The Unit‌
star7.3
calendar 2006

Cold Case

Cold Case‌
star7.8
calendar 2003

CSI: NY

CSI: NY‌
star7.3
calendar 2004

Burn Notice

Burn Notice‌
star7.5
calendar 2007

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds‌
star8.3
calendar 2005

The X-Files

The X-Files‌
star8.4
calendar 1993

9-1-1: Lone Star

9-1-1: Lone Star‌
star8.1
calendar 2020

Millennium

Millennium‌
star7.6
calendar 1996

Melrose Place

Melrose Place‌
star5.8
calendar 1992

Roswell

Roswell‌
star7.7
calendar 1999

First Monday

First Monday‌
star6.0
calendar 2002

Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope‌
star7.2
calendar 1994

Family Law

Family Law‌
star8.2
calendar 1999

NCIS

NCIS‌
star7.6
calendar 2003

K.C. Undercover

K.C. Undercover‌
star7.9
calendar 2015

Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey‌
star6.0
calendar 2002

Diagnosis: Murder

Diagnosis: Murder‌
star7.1
calendar 1993

The West Wing

The West Wing‌
star8.3
calendar 1999

Political Animals

Political Animals‌
star7.2
calendar 2012

Mad Men

Mad Men‌
star8.1
calendar 2007

From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon‌
star8.2
calendar 1998

The Mentalist

The Mentalist‌
star8.4
calendar 2008

Law & Order: LA

Law & Order: LA‌
star6.7
calendar 2010

Space: Above and Beyond

Space: Above and Beyond‌
star7.2
calendar 1995

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation‌
star7.6
calendar 2000

The Finder

The Finder‌
star7.1
calendar 2012

Justified

Justified‌
star8.0
calendar 2010

Promised Land

Promised Land‌
star6.6
calendar 1996

Fairly Legal

Fairly Legal‌
star6.7
calendar 2011

Murder One

Murder One‌
star7.8
calendar 1995

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles‌
star7.5
calendar 2008

Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13‌
star7.7
calendar 2009

NCIS

NCIS‌
star7.6
calendar 2003

Young Sheldon

Young Sheldon‌
star8.1
calendar 2017

Homecoming

Homecoming‌
star7.0
calendar 2018

The Office

The Office‌
star8.6
calendar 2005

Arliss

Arliss‌
star6.6
calendar 1996

Las Vegas

Las Vegas‌
star7.0
calendar 2003