Biography
Chris Ellis is an American film and television actor who was born April 14, 1956 in Dallas, Texas. 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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Ghost Trap
2024
as Doug Kane
The story of Jamie Eugley, a young lobsterman struggling with the grinding responsibilities of a head-injured fiancée and a mounting trap war with a r...
Silo
2021
as Mr. Adler
Disaster strikes in a small American farm town when teenager Cody Rose becomes the victim of a grain entrapment accident. As corn becomes quicksand in...
Kenny
2018
as Al
A story of loss, grieving, independence, and family dysfunction. Kenny is a thirtysomething burnout who sacrifices his own dreams to care for his dyin...
The Oath
2018
as Hank
In a politically-divided United States, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.
What Still Remains
2018
as Harvey
After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long-since destroyed by disease; but when a lonely traveler offers her a p...
The Show
2017
as Keller
An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
Amelia 2.0
2017
as Senator Thaddeus Williams
After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive he...
Pitching Tents
2017
as Principal Don Bishop
In a working-class town in 1984, a high school senior's future creates a tug-of-war between his no-nonsense father and his crackpot guidance counselor...
Jessabelle
2014
as Sheriff Pruitt
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-d...
The Guest
2014
as Hendricks
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into the...
Faults
2014
as Dad
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the wor...
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Fr. Reilly
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is...
Teenage Dirtbag
2009
as Pops
A popular high school girl is harassed by a delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together. Through written words, they creat...
G-Force
2009
as NSA Director
A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US govern...
Crazy
2008
as Glen the Carousel Manager
Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed with incomparable, natural talent, Hank Garland quick...
Gospel Hill
2008
as L Donn Murray
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain...
Transformers
2007
as Admiral Brigham
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...
Live Free or Die Hard
2007
as Capt. Jack Scalvino
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists i...
Believe in Me
2006
as Jim Stovall
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach o...
Sissy Frenchfry
2006
as Willinger McDodey
The annual Student Body President election at wildly eclectic and diverse West Beach High pits the quirky, much-beloved incumbent Sissy Frenchfry agai...
Fun with Dick and Jane
2005
as Vice President - Grand Cayman Bank
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they...
The Devil's Rejects
2005
as Coggs
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
The Island
2005
as Aces & Spades Barman
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled envi...
Tiger Cruise
2004
as Captain Anderson
On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly "tiger cruise" for US Navy, Marines and USNAF re...
Helter Skelter
2004
as Sgt. Whiteley
The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious m...
Death and Texas
2004
as Phillip Brodeur
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downt...
In Enemy Hands
2004
as Samuel Littleton
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisone...
Wonderland
2003
as Captain Nimziki
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The...
My Dinner with Jimi
2003
as Sergeant
The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.
Love Liza
2002
as Patriot Model Aeronautics Clerk
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoid...
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Special Agent Witkins
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor...
Beyond the City Limits
2001
as Det. Hanson
Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.
Domestic Disturbance
2001
as Detective Warren
Frank Morrison is a divorced father with a 12-year-old son, Danny. His ex-wife Susan and son Danny now live with Rick Barnes, Susan's new husband. Dan...
Daddy and Them
2001
as Dewey
Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far f...
Planet of the Apes
2001
as Commander Karl Vasich
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 Watcher
2000
as Hollis
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. ...
October Sky
1999
as Principal Turner
Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However, in October 1957 everything changes when ...
Home Fries
1998
as Henry Lever
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begin...
Armageddon
1998
as Flight Director Clark
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...
Godzilla
1998
as General Anderson
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, includin...
Wag the Dog
1997
as Officer
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President...
Sparkler
1997
as Buddy #1
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel ...
Bean
1997
as Detective Butler
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...
Con Air
1997
as BOP Official Grant
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...
Her Costly Affair
1996
as Wes
A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
That Thing You Do!
1996
as Phil Horace
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
If These Walls Could Talk
1996
as Crowd Leader
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...
The Tie That Binds
1995
as Security Guard #1
A young couple adopts a traumatized child, unaware that her parents are fugitives and murderers who will do anything to get her back.
Apollo 13
1995
as Deke Slayton
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with th...
Crimson Tide
1995
as Additional Magician
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on...
A Little Princess
1995
as Policeman
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended...
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
as News Vendor
A criminal gang commits a string of violent robberies and murders, culminating in the assassination of the police detective on the case, which may lea...
Addams Family Values
1993
as Moving Man
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from...
Undercover Blues
1993
as Burt
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...
My Cousin Vinny
1992
as J.T.
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortuna...
Days of Thunder
1990
as Harlem Hoogerhyde
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982
as Clown
The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con arti...