Elias Koteas

Elias Koteas

1961-03-11 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 80 Credits

Biography

Elias Koteas (born March 11, 1961) is a Canadian actor, known for his roles as Alvin "Al" Olinsky on the series Chicago P.D., Tom True on Goliath, Lionel Shrike in Now You See Me (2013), Col. Marks on Combat Hospital, James Skinner on The Killing, Laeddis in Shutter Island (2010), Monsieur Gateau in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Jack Payne in the film Shooter (2007), Peter Brandt in Collateral Damage (2002), Capt. James Stars in The Thin Red Line (1998), Edgar Reese in Fallen (1998...

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The Silent Planet

The Silent Planet

2024

as Theo

5.7
Acting

An aging convict serving out a life sentence alone on a distant planet is forced to confront his past when a new prisoner shows up and pushes him to r...

Janet Planet

Janet Planet

2024

as Avi

6.0
Acting

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother,...

The Baker

The Baker

2023

as Vic

6.3
Acting

A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look af...

My Days of Mercy

My Days of Mercy

2018

as Simon

7.3
Acting

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

Jake Squared

Jake Squared

2014

as Jake Klein

4.1
Acting

A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.

Jake Squared

Jake Squared

2014

Producer

4.1
Producing

A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.

The Last Days on Mars

The Last Days on Mars

2013

as Charles Brunel

5.5
Acting

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence...

Now You See Me

Now You See Me

2013

as Lionel Shrike (uncredited)

7.3
Acting

An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with...

Devil's Knot

Devil's Knot

2013

as Jerry Driver

6.2
Acting

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

2011

as Sergie Katsov

6.0
Acting

Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But ...

Dream House

Dream House

2011

as Boyce

6.2
Acting

Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as...

Winnie Mandela

Winnie Mandela

2011

as Colonel de Vries

5.8
Acting

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.

Let Me In

Let Me In

2010

as The Policeman

6.8
Acting

A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was a...

A Letter to Elia

A Letter to Elia

2010

as Elia Kazan (Voice)

6.4
Acting

Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely c...

My Own Love Song

My Own Love Song

2010

as Dean

6.2
Acting

A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me

2010

as Joe Rothman

5.8
Acting

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...

Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010

as Laeddis

8.2
Acting

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his ...

3 Backyards

3 Backyards

2010

as John

4.2
Acting

An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.

Die

Die

2010

as Mark Murdock

4.7
Acting

Six people, each of them is on the road to self-destruction. They wake up in cells in a surreal facility, without knowing how they got there or why.

The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind

2009

as Abel Campos

6.3
Acting

Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappeara...

Defendor

Defendor

2009

as Chuck Dooney

6.4
Acting

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington...

I Come with the Rain

I Come with the Rain

2009

as Hasford

5.7
Acting

Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia th...

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Haunting in Connecticut

2009

as Reverend Popescu

6.2
Acting

When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the h...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

as Monsieur Gateau

7.6
Acting

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

Dark Streets

Dark Streets

2008

as Lieutenant

3.4
Acting

Chaz Davenport is a dashing bachelor who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town--if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded ...

Two Lovers

Two Lovers

2008

as Ronald Blatt

6.9
Acting

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

The Girl in the Park

The Girl in the Park

2007

as Raymond

6.0
Acting

A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. Ho...

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

2007

as Val Lewton (voice)

6.9
Acting

Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. Raised by his moth...

Prisoner

Prisoner

2007

as Jailer

4.2
Acting

A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.

Shooter

Shooter

2007

as Jack Payne

7.1
Acting

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back in...

Zodiac

Zodiac

2007

as Jack Mulanax

7.5
Acting

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

Skinwalkers

Skinwalkers

2006

as Jonas

5.1
Acting

Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played

2005

as Arthur Ouimet

7.3
Acting

A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

The Big Empty

2005

as The Specialist

7.3
Acting

The Big Empty is a 2005 short film starring Selma Blair about a woman with an unusual condition that baffles scientists and laymen alike. It was writt...

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

2004

as Self (archive footage)

5.0
Acting

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers...

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

2002

as Self

6.7
Acting

Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of...

S1m0ne

S1m0ne

2002

as Hank Alano

6.0
Acting

The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the prod...

Ararat

Ararat

2002

as Ali / Jevdet Bay

6.1
Acting

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

2002

as Peter Brandt

5.8
Acting

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr...

Novocaine

Novocaine

2001

as Harlan Sangster

6.0
Acting

A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.

Shot in the Heart

Shot in the Heart

2001

as Gary Gilmore

5.6
Acting

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own...

Dancing at the Blue Iguana

Dancing at the Blue Iguana

2001

as Sully

5.4
Acting

At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, clash and ultimately bond over the course of one week...

Lost Souls

Lost Souls

2000

as John Townsend

5.0
Acting

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

Harrison's Flowers

Harrison's Flowers

2000

as Yeager Pollack

6.5
Acting

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, ...

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

1998

as Capt. James Staros

7.4
Acting

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselve...

Living Out Loud

Living Out Loud

1998

as The Kisser

5.9
Acting

Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J...

Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998

as Archie

6.5
Acting

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles t...

Divorce: A Contemporary Western

1998

2.5
Acting

A look at the dysfunctional relationships of three couples as seen from the male point of view.

Fallen

Fallen

1998

as Edgar Reese

6.8
Acting

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are v...

Gattaca

Gattaca

1997

as Antonio Freeman

7.6
Acting

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member ...

Hit Me

Hit Me

1996

as Sonny Rose

5.6
Acting

A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a scheme to steal guests' valuables.

Crash

Crash

1996

as Vaughan

6.4
Acting

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins ...

Sugartime

Sugartime

1995

as Butch Blasi

5.9
Acting

Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group wi...

The Prophecy

The Prophecy

1995

as Thomas Daggett

6.5
Acting

The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop hi...

Power of Attorney

Power of Attorney

1995

as Paul Dellacroce

4.6
Acting

Mafia don Joseph Scassi is a man willing to use all of his vast resources to defend himself against an indictment for murder and extortion.

Camilla

Camilla

1994

as Vincent Lopez

5.7
Acting

Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly...

Exotica

Exotica

1994

as Eric

6.6
Acting

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, th...

Cyborg 2

Cyborg 2

1993

as Colson 'Colt' Ricks

4.3
Acting

In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are c...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1993

as Casey Jones / Whit

5.5
Acting

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming...

The Habitation of Dragons

The Habitation of Dragons

1992

as Wally Smith

Acting

Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for al...

Chain of Desire

Chain of Desire

1992

as Jesus

4.3
Acting

A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.

Contact

Contact

1992

as Mohannan

6.8
Acting

An American soldier and an Arab soldier confront each other during wartime in the desert, each hoping to kill the other. But in order to survive, they...

The Adjuster

The Adjuster

1991

as Noah

6.1
Acting

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

Almost an Angel

Almost an Angel

1990

as Steve Garner

5.7
Acting

Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hosp...

Look Who's Talking Too

Look Who's Talking Too

1990

as Stuart

5.5
Acting

Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings aris...

Desperate Hours

Desperate Hours

1990

as Wally Bosworth

5.4
Acting

An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990

as Casey Jones

6.7
Acting

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics

Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics

1989

as Davey

2.0
Acting

An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pu...

Blood Red

Blood Red

1989

as Silvio

4.6
Acting

Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.

Malarek

Malarek

1988

as Victor Malarek

4.0
Acting

Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Mo...

Full Moon in Blue Water

Full Moon in Blue Water

1988

as Jimmy

6.1
Acting

Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senil...

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

1988

as Alex

6.7
Acting

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

1988

as Young Aristotle Onassis

6.6
Acting

Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy...

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby

1988

as Elias Koteas (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...

Gardens of Stone

Gardens of Stone

1987

as Pete Deveber

6.2
Acting

A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. ...

Some Kind of Wonderful

Some Kind of Wonderful

1987

as Skinhead

6.9
Acting

Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. How...

One Magic Christmas

One Magic Christmas

1985

as Eddie

5.8
Acting

Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gid...

Private Sessions

Private Sessions

1985

as Johnny O'Reilly

2.0
Acting

A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently ther...

Atlantic City

Atlantic City

1980

as Extra (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs a...

The Block

N/A

Acting

A former successful horror fiction writer overcomes writer's block after experiencing a mysterious event. However, his renewed creativity comes at a d...