Erick Avari

Erick Avari

1952-04-13 Darjeeling, India 57 Credits

Biography

Erick Avari is an Indian born American stage, film and television actor, best known for roles in feature films such as "The Beast of War", "Independence Day", "The Mummy", and "Planet of the Apes".

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Chasing Eagle Rock

Chasing Eagle Rock

2020

as Cam Avery

6.0
Acting

An offbeat examination of Internet crime, shady partnerships and well-deserved revenge, Chasing Eagle Rock asks the question: if they steal your ident...

Chasing Eagle Rock

Chasing Eagle Rock

2020

Producer, Director, Writer

6.0
Producing Directing Writing

An offbeat examination of Internet crime, shady partnerships and well-deserved revenge, Chasing Eagle Rock asks the question: if they steal your ident...

Love & Debt

Love & Debt

2019

as Johnny

4.6
Acting

When you're up to neck in debt...it's not about the money. A drama full of the comedy of life. A story for our times that examines the durability of m...

Project Eden: Vol. I

Project Eden: Vol. I

2017

as The Shepherd

6.0
Acting

Aided by an ex-military officer, a young woman becomes an unwitting fugitive after discovering that her son's catatonic state may be at the heart of a...

California Winter

California Winter

2015

as Douglas Hariri

10.0
Acting

Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom. She must now rescue her father’s home from forecl...

It's Not You, It's Me

It's Not You, It's Me

2013

as Cedrick

2.0
Acting

Serial commitment-phobe, Dave, is reeling from his decision to break up with his near perfect, now ex-girlfriend. As he tries to forget her, his battl...

A Haunting at Silver Falls

A Haunting at Silver Falls

2013

as Dr. Parrish

4.7
Acting

A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to find...

Dispatch

Dispatch

2011

as Sergeant Pincus

7.3
Acting

Hollywood is the cinema capital of the world - the place where dreams come true. It is associated with glamour and luxury. But for Nick, reality is ve...

Three Veils

Three Veils

2011

as Mr. Qasim

4.8
Acting

The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage ...

Stargate: History Made

Stargate: History Made

2009

as Self

Acting

Divided into three segments, "Deciphering the Gate: Concepts and Casting" (7:50), "Opening the Gate: The Making of Stargate" (10:11) and "Passing Thr...

Fault Line

2009

Acting

The story of a group of actors and artists living in Los Angeles who are struggling to find their humanity within the whirlwind of show business, part...

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

2009

as Jasjeet

8.0
Acting

A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

2009

as Vijay

5.4
Acting

Mild-mannered Paul Blart has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his c...

AmericanEast

AmericanEast

2008

as Fikry

5.6
Acting

Summer in L.A., it's hot. Homeland Security has set the threat level at red; they're searching for several Arabs alleged to be terrorists. Mustafa, an...

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

2008

as Professor R.K. Gazda

5.6
Acting

Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a c...

InAlienable

InAlienable

2008

as Howard

2.6
Acting

Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Excep...

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War

2007

as Avi Perlman

6.5
Acting

In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afgh...

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War

2007

as Ari Goldman (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afgh...

Postal

Postal

2007

as Habib

4.6
Acting

The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle...

Choose Connor

Choose Connor

2007

as Arthur Dennison

5.9
Acting

Idealistic 15-year-old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in...

Flight of the Living Dead

Flight of the Living Dead

2007

as Dr. Bennett

5.0
Acting

On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected wi...

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

2006

as General Samir

6.2
Acting

After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll ...

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

2005

as Matre'd

2.6
Acting

The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial fo...

Dancing in Twilight

Dancing in Twilight

2005

as Matt

2.2
Acting

When the wife of Indian immigrant Matt Singh dies suddenly (having kept her illness a secret), the successful businessman suddenly finds himself adrif...

Dragnet: Sticks and Stones

2003

as Sanjay Ramachandran

Acting

A high school student is murdered in a satanic ritual.

Daredevil

Daredevil

2003

as Nikolas Natchios

5.3
Acting

A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.

Home Alone 4

Home Alone 4

2002

as Prescott

4.5
Acting

Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich gir...

Ritual

Ritual

2002

as Dr. Peter Winsfold

4.5
Acting

An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.

The Master of Disguise

The Master of Disguise

2002

as Cigar Maker

4.0
Acting

After the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, It...

Mr. Deeds

Mr. Deeds

2002

as Cecil Anderson

5.9
Acting

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different ki...

Three Days of Rain

Three Days of Rain

2002

as Alex

5.0
Acting

Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.

Incest

2002

as Paul

Acting

Teenage nightmare: parents walk in on you while you're having sex. Parent nightmare: walk in on your daughter having sex, with your son. That's what h...

The Glass House

The Glass House

2001

as Ted Ross

5.9
Acting

When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Mali...

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

2001

as Tival

5.8
Acting

After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes domi...

The 13th Warrior

The 13th Warrior

1999

as Caravan Leader

6.7
Acting

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they trave...

The Mummy

The Mummy

1999

as Terence Bey

6.9
Acting

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It ha...

The Undercover Kid

The Undercover Kid

1997

as Brach

3.5
Acting

Nine-year-old Max Anderson has a big problem: he knows about an evil plot to kill the president, and no one believes him. Adults don’t usually believe...

McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy

1997

as European Leader (uncredited)

4.4
Acting

Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit ...

Gun

Gun

1997

as The Proprietor

7.0
Acting

Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.

Independence Day

Independence Day

1996

6.9
Acting

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it ...

Project: ALF

Project: ALF

1996

as Rocket (voice)

5.8
Acting

Six years ago, the space alien ALF was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught up with him. Now he is being studied a...

Aladdin on Ice

Aladdin on Ice

1995

as The Mystic Traveler

4.5
Acting

A retelling of the Disney film, Aladdin (1992). This was staged on ice, and featured songs and clips from the animated film.

Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water

1994

as Emir's Aide

5.5
Acting

Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset i...

Stargate

Stargate

1994

as Kasuf

7.0
Acting

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

Color of Night

Color of Night

1994

as Cabbie (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense a...

Dream Lover

Dream Lover

1993

as Dr. Spatz

5.9
Acting

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incid...

For Love or Money

For Love or Money

1993

as Benny the Jewler

6.2
Acting

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With ...

Scam

Scam

1993

as Mr. Ayub

6.1
Acting

A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself be...

The Hit List

The Hit List

1993

as Pharmaceutical Wholesaler

4.7
Acting

A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

1993

as Surgeon

6.0
Acting

Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife...

Encino Man

Encino Man

1992

as Raji

5.8
Acting

High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man buried in their backyard. But the thawed-out Link—as the boys have named him—q...

Treacherous Crossing

Treacherous Crossing

1992

as Don Gallegher

5.0
Acting

In 1947, a passenger on an ocean liner says her husband went missing right after they boarded together, but all evidence shows she's traveling alone.

Final Analysis

Final Analysis

1992

as Moderator (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens t...

She's Back

She's Back

1989

as Deli Owner

3.3
Acting

A henpecked electrician is nagged by his recently deceased wife into taking revenge on the gang responsible for her death.

The Beast of War

The Beast of War

1988

as Samad

7.0
Acting

During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen...

On Wings of Fire

On Wings of Fire

1986

as Professor

9.5
Acting

Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees o...

Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever

1984

as Toulouse Lautrec

6.3
Acting

An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who ta...