Chris Ellis movies

He grew up in the 50s 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.On February 9th, 1964, when Chris was 7 years old, The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. They sang "She Loves You," and "I Want To Hold Your Hand," which they had written, and "Til There Was You," which was written by Meredith Willson, who also wrote "The Music Man."Later in 1964, Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were killed by member of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Three of the confessed killers were tried for murder in Mississippi state court and were acquitted.

One of the Klansmen, Terry Keeter, who was never charged with any crime, was, by 1968, working for the sheriffs department in Senatobia, Mississippi. That summer, he and his partner, Lekk Hopper, arrested Ellis for fishing without a license as he stood at the edge of Sardis Lake. "I have never been fishing in my life, though in 1968 my hair was long for a man by Mississippi standards."These events helped him to decide to blow town altogether as soon as he might finish his schooling. Which he did, whistling Hey fiddle dee dee, the actors life for me.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 quality of the work has always been quite good". By the time he moved to New York to seek his way amid the worlds ruin, He had worked with many excellent actors in about two dozen plays, classical and contemporary.

Chris Ellis Movies

All movies starring Chris Ellis.

• Apollo 13
• Armageddon
• Bean
• Catch Me If You Can
• Days of Thunder
• "From the Earth to the Moon"
• My Cousin Vinny
• October Sky
• Planet of the Apes
• Transformers