Chris Ellis

Known For: Acting
Born: April 14, 1956
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA

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 starre…

Filmography

The Ghost Trap

2024 · Doug Kane

Silo

2021 · Mr. Adler

9-1-1: Lone Star

2020 · Derek Poole

Homecoming

2018 · Richard Lehmann

Kenny

2018 · Al

The Oath

2018 · Hank

What Still Remains

2018 · Harvey

Young Sheldon

2017 · Marty Steinbecker

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.)

K.C. Undercover

2015 · Christos Markos

Jessabelle

2014 · Sheriff Pruitt

The Guest

2014 · Hendricks

Faults

2014 · Dad

The Dark Knight Rises

2012 · Fr. Reilly

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

Teenage Dirtbag

2009 · Pops

G-Force

2009 · NSA Director

Warehouse 13

2009 · Colonel Arnold Cassell

The Mentalist

2008 · Sherrif Mullery

In Plain Sight

2008 · Reidell

Crazy

2008 · Glen the Carousel Manager

Gospel Hill

2008 · L Donn Murray

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

2008 · Hayes

Mad Men

2007 · Del Hill

Burn Notice

2007 · Virgil Watkins

Transformers

2007 · Admiral Brigham

Live Free or Die Hard

2007 · Capt. Jack Scalvino

Believe in Me

2006 · Jim Stovall

Vanished

2006 · Shelton

Sissy Frenchfry

2006 · Willinger McDodey

The Unit

2006 · Congressman Bruce Gelber

The Darkroom

2006 · Jackson

Fun with Dick and Jane

2005 · Vice President - Grand Cayman Bank

Ghost Whisperer

2005 · Captain Ken Nilsen

Criminal Minds

2005 · Sheriff Rhodes

The Devil's Rejects

2005 · Coggs

The Island

2005 · Aces & Spades Barman

The Office

2005 · Chris O'Keefe

Veronica Mars

2004 · Reverend Ted Capistrano

CSI: NY

2004 · Vincent Williams

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

Cold Case

2003 · Jim Horn (2008)

NCIS

2003 · John Deluca

Las Vegas

2003 · Dr. Sassen

My Dinner with Jimi

2003 · Sergeant

Love Liza

2002 · Patriot Model Aeronautics Clerk

Catch Me If You Can

2002 · Special Agent Witkins

Birds of Prey

2002 · Larry Ketterly

First Monday

2002

Beyond the City Limits

2001 · Det. Hanson

Domestic Disturbance

2001 · Detective Warren

Daddy and Them

2001 · Dewey

Alias

2001 · Agent Chapman

Planet of the Apes

2001 · Commander Karl Vasich

Six Feet Under

2001 · Construction Worker #2

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000 · Clinton Malton

The Watcher

2000 · Hollis

Roswell

1999 · T. Greer

The West Wing

1999 · Congressman Fields

Family Law

1999 · Mr. Reese

October Sky

1999 · Principal Turner

Home Fries

1998 · Henry Lever

Armageddon

1998 · Flight Director Clark

Godzilla

1998 · General Anderson

From the Earth to the Moon

1998 · Bob Parker

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

The Practice

1997 · Zoning Board Chairman Donald Blane

Her Costly Affair

1996 · Wes

Millennium

1996 · Jim Penseyres

That Thing You Do!

1996 · Phil Horace

The Pretender

1996 · Daniel Crockett

Promised Land

1996 · Brian Pascal

If These Walls Could Talk

1996 · Crowd Leader

Arli$$

1996 · Henneman, Maynard Dupree

Space: Above and Beyond

1995 · Adm. Stenner

Murder One

1995 · Mr. Switzer

The Tie That Binds

1995 · Security Guard #1

Apollo 13

1995 · Deke Slayton

Crimson Tide

1995 · Additional Magician

A Little Princess

1995 · Policeman

Chicago Hope

1994 · Bill Erskine

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

1994 · News Vendor

Addams Family Values

1993 · Moving Man

Diagnosis: Murder

1993 · Leonard Wilson

NYPD Blue

1993 · Marshal

Undercover Blues

1993 · Burt

The X-Files

1993 · Sheriff Lance Hindt

Melrose Place

1992 · Cop

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

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