
Chris Ellis
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 qualit…
Known For
The Dark Knight Rises
Fr. Reilly
Catch Me If You Can
Special Agent Witkins
Apollo 13
Deke Slayton
Transformers
Admiral Brigham
Armageddon
Flight Director Clark
Live Free or Die Hard
Capt. Jack Scalvino
The Island
Aces & Spades Barman
Con Air
BOP Official Grant
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Filmography
Acting (108)
Movies (60)
The Ghost Trap
2024as Doug Kane
Silo
2021as Mr. Adler
Kenny
2018as Al
The Oath
2018as Hank
What Still Remains
2018as Harvey
The Show
2017as Keller
Amelia 2.0
2017as Senator Thaddeus Williams
Pitching Tents
2017as Principal Don Bishop
McFarland, USA
2015as Coach Jenks (as Chris Ellis Jr.)
The Guest
2014as Hendricks
Faults
2014as Dad
Jessabelle
2014as Sheriff Pruitt
The Dark Knight Rises
2012as Fr. Reilly
G-Force
2009as NSA Director
Teenage Dirtbag
2009as Pops
Gospel Hill
2008as L Donn Murray
Crazy
2008as Glen the Carousel Manager
Live Free or Die Hard
2007as Capt. Jack Scalvino
Transformers
2007as Admiral Brigham
The Darkroom
2006as Jackson
Believe in Me
2006as Jim Stovall
Sissy Frenchfry
2006as Willinger McDodey
The Island
2005as Aces & Spades Barman
The Devil's Rejects
2005as Coggs
Fun with Dick and Jane
2005as Vice President - Grand Cayman Bank
Helter Skelter
2004as Sgt. Whiteley
In Enemy Hands
2004as Samuel Littleton
Tiger Cruise
2004as Captain Anderson
Death and Texas
2004as Phillip Brodeur
Wonderland
2003as Captain Nimziki
My Dinner with Jimi
2003as Sergeant
Catch Me If You Can
2002as Special Agent Witkins
Love Liza
2002as Patriot Model Aeronautics Clerk
Planet of the Apes
2001as Commander Karl Vasich
Domestic Disturbance
2001as Detective Warren
Daddy and Them
2001as Dewey
Beyond the City Limits
2001as Det. Hanson
The Watcher
2000as Hollis
October Sky
1999as Principal Turner
Armageddon
1998as Flight Director Clark
Godzilla
1998as General Anderson
Home Fries
1998as Henry Lever
On the Line
1998as Officer Roux
Con Air
1997as BOP Official Grant
Wag the Dog
1997as Officer
Bean
1997as Detective Butler
Sparkler
1997as Buddy #1
That Thing You Do!
1996as Phil Horace
Her Costly Affair
1996as Wes
If These Walls Could Talk
1996as Crowd Leader
Apollo 13
1995as Deke Slayton
Crimson Tide
1995as Additional Magician
A Little Princess
1995as Policeman
The Tie That Binds
1995as Security Guard #1
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994as News Vendor
Addams Family Values
1993as Moving Man
Undercover Blues
1993as Burt
My Cousin Vinny
1992as J.T.
Days of Thunder
1990as Harlem Hoogerhyde
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982as Clown
Television (48)
9-1-1: Lone Star
2020as Derek Poole
Homecoming
2018as Richard Lehmann
Young Sheldon
2017as Marty Steinbecker
K.C. Undercover
2015as Christos Markos
The Finder
2012as Warden Nick Larsen
Political Animals
2012as Jubal Jacobs
Fairly Legal
2011as Maddox Resor
Harry's Law
2011
Justified
2010as Douglas Cooper
Law & Order: LA
2010as Walter Exley
The Good Guys
2010as Beau Teague
Warehouse 13
2009as Colonel Arnold Cassell
The Mentalist
2008as Sherrif Mullery
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008as Hayes
In Plain Sight
2008as Reidell
Mad Men
2007as Del Hill
Burn Notice
2007as Virgil Watkins
The Unit
2006as Congressman Bruce Gelber
Criminal Minds
2005as Sheriff Rhodes
The Office
2005as Chris O'Keefe
Ghost Whisperer
2005as Captain Ken Nilsen
CSI: NY
2004as Vincent Williams
Veronica Mars
2004as Reverend Ted Capistrano
NCIS
2003as John Deluca
Cold Case
2003as Jim Horn (2008)
Las Vegas
2003as Dr. Sassen
Birds of Prey
2002as Larry Ketterly
First Monday
2002
Six Feet Under
2001as Construction Worker #2
Alias
2001as Agent Chapman
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000as Clinton Malton
The West Wing
1999as Congressman Fields
Roswell
1999as T. Greer
Family Law
1999as Mr. Reese
From the Earth to the Moon
1998as Bob Parker
The Practice
1997as Zoning Board Chairman Donald Blane
Arli$$
1996as Henneman
The Pretender
1996as Daniel Crockett
Millennium
1996as Jim Penseyres
Promised Land
1996as Brian Pascal
Space: Above and Beyond
1995as Adm. Stenner
Murder One
1995as Mr. Switzer
Chicago Hope
1994as Bill Erskine
The X-Files
1993as Sheriff Lance Hindt
Diagnosis: Murder
1993as Leonard Wilson
NYPD Blue
1993as Marshal
Melrose Place
1992as Cop
Chiefs
1983as Bobby Patrick
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