Biography
Chris Bauer is an American actor. He is best known for his television work in The Wire, Third Watch, True Blood, Survivor's Remorse, The Deuce and the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. He has also appeared on Broadway as Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire. He has originated roles in plays by David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley and Jez Butterworth.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Eenie Meanie
2025
A former teenage getaway driver gets dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronicall...

Find Your Friends
2025
as Russell
Amber and her four best girlfriends take a trip to escape the L.A. bubble and cut loose in Joshua Tree for the weekend. But upon arrival, they quickly...

Our Hero, Balthazar
2025
A wealthy teenager from New York City tries to win over his activist crush by traveling to Texas and befriending a would-be mass shooter.

Henry Johnson
2025
as Mr. Barnes
A quiet man is abruptly arrested without explanation, thrust into a surreal legal nightmare where truth and identity blur. As he fights to assert his ...

Thunderbolts*
2025
as Holt
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront th...

The Little Things
2021
as Detective Sal Rizoli
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culp...

3 Days with Dad
2019
as Father Rose
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy fa...

A Dog's Way Home
2019
as Kurch
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.

Wolves
2016
as Charlie
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popula...

Sully
2016
as Larry Rooney
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River,...

Money Monster
2016
as Lt. Nelson
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

Temps
2016
as Mike
Jefferson is a lovable ski-bum temp worker whose singular joy comes from an annual excursion to the slopes with fellow vagabond/best friend, Curtis. W...

Tomorrowland
2015
as Frank's Dad
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment emba...

The Conspirator
2011
as Major Smith
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

Sounds Like
2006
as Larry Pearce
Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive ...

Flags of Our Fathers
2006
as Commandant Vandegrift
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s...

Bernard and Doris
2006
as Chef
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

The Exonerated
2006
as Cop #1
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.

The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
as Irving Klaw
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph...

Broken Flowers
2005
as Dan
As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may b...

Keane
2004
as Bartender
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Term...

Angels Crest
2002
as Teddy
Teddy offers a co-worker a ride to work. He makes an unscheduled stop in the woods...where he has something special planned.

Taking Back Our Town
2001
as James Melancon
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a pl...

61*
2001
as Bob Cerv
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally ha...

Animal Factory
2000
as Bad Eye
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug deale...

The Photographer
2000
as Paul
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night befo...

High Fidelity
2000
as Paul
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top...

Cradle Will Rock
1999
as VTA - Carpenter
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Sweet and Lowdown
1999
as Ace
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Flawless
1999
as Jacko
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the...

The Hunley
1999
as Simkins
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a...

8MM
1999
as Machine
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the he...

A Cool, Dry Place
1998
as Larry Ives (as Christopher Bauer)
Russell, a single father, balances his work as a lawyer with the care of his five-year-old son after his wife abandoned them. When she reappears creat...

The Devil's Advocate
1997
as Gettys
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that...

The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Jerry
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror
1997
as Konrad
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of al...

Face/Off
1997
as Ivan Dubov
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns ...

Fools Rush In
1997
as Phil
After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes comprom...

Colin Fitz
1997
as Tony Baby Shark
Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two ...