Chris Elliott
Also Known As: Chris Elliot , Christopher Nash Elliott , Chris, Christopher Elliott, کریس الیوت
Biography: Christopher Nash Elliott is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and author. He was born on May 31, 1960, in New York City, New York. He is the youngest of five children of Lee (née Peppers), a model and TV director, and Bob Elliott, who was part of the successful comedy team Bob and Ray. Elliott began his career as a writer for Late Night with David Letterman in 1982. He stayed with the show for six years, during which time he created and performed in many memorable sketches. In 1990, he created and starred in the cult comedy series Get a Life, which ran for two seasons on Fox. Elliott has also appeared in numerous films, including Cabin Boy (1994), Scary Movie 2 (2001), There's Something About Mary (1998). He has also had recurring roles on the television shows Everybody Loves Raymond (2003-2005), How I Met Your Mother (2009-2014), and Eagleheart (2011-2014). In recent years, Elliott has had a recurring role on the Canadian television comedy series Schitt's Creek (2015-2020). He played Roland Schitt, the eccentric father of the show's main character, Johnny Schitt. For his performance, Elliott received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Elliott is also a writer and director. He has written several books, including Daddy's Boy (1989), a memoir about his relationship with his father. He has also directed several films, including the comedy Strange Brew (1983), which he co-wrote with his father. Elliott is married to Paula Niedert, whom he met while she was a talent coordinator on Late Night with David Letterman. They have two daughters, Abby and Bridey.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: May 31, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Groundhog Day
Overview: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-11
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There's Something About Mary
Overview: For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-15
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Christmas vs The Walters
Overview: Diane Walters, an over-burdened mother of two with a third child on the way, strives to create the perfect Christmas while her loving but dysfunctional family falls apart around her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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The Abyss
Overview: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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Scary Movie 2
Overview: While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Kingpin
Overview: After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naive hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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Dance Flick
Overview: Street dancer, Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles.
Genres: Music Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-22
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Overview: The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-27
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Cabin Boy
Overview: A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-07
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Christmas Cottage
Overview: Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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CB4
Overview: A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Snow Day
Overview: When an entire town in upstate New York is closed down by an unexpected snowfall, a "snow day" begins when a group of elementary school kids, led by Natalie Brandston, try to ensure that the schools stay closed by stopping a mechanical snowplow driver by trying to hijack his plow truck. Meanwhile, Natalie's big brother Hal is using this day to try to win the affections of Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in his high school, while Hal and Natalie's father Tom, a TV meteorologist, faces off against a rival meteorologist for weather coverage of the day's events.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Overview: Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday fluff.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-27
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New York Stories
Overview: Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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Eagleheart: Paradise Rising
Overview: Chris Monsanto, disgraced Marshal turned fugitive from justice, goes on a journey of both heart and mind to clear his name and uncover the truth.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Ghouls Fools
Overview: Aye, this here set has the full spooky Halloween double-length-episode, GHOUL FOOLS, where SpongeBob and Patrick are caught in the middle of a ghostly feud, then meet the fancy knottin' champ of the last 3000 years, go on a treasure hunt and more! SpongeBob and Patrick find a houseboat haunted by a crew of ghost pirates--and get caught in the feud between them and the Flying Dutchman.
Genres: Animation Family Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Lianna
Overview: Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth. When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-19
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The Sky is Falling
Overview: A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-07
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The Barefoot Executive
Overview: A young man working in the mailroom of a television network rises to the top of the company after he discovers that his girlfriend's chimp is capable of picking hit shows.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-11
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I'll Believe You
Overview: Late-night radio host Dale Sweeney's usual line up of odd-ball, conspiracy-obsessed callers is interrupted by a panicked phone call in an indecipherable language. When FBI agents arrive investigating the call, Dale enlists his friends help to uncover what he hopes is the amazing identity of this first time caller.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Overview: Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-07
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The Rewrite
Overview: An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-15
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Better Off Single
Overview: A comedy that follows a man on a mission of self-discovery that results in hallucinations, flashbacks and fantasies in his quest to find new love and himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Action Family
Overview: At work, Chris is a hardboiled no-nonsense detective who's investigating a series of brutal murders of jazz musicians. At home, he's a family man straight out of sitcom who has to satisfy every whim of his wife and kids.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Manhunter
Overview: FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-14
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The Sector
Overview: In a dystopian world, a bounty hunter sets out to capture a ruthless band of outlaws who have kidnapped an important father and daughter through a world of multiverses. Unbeknownst to the Outlaws and the Bounty Hunter is that another, more powerful man known only as The Finisher has plans of his own.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-05
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Frat Star
Overview: "Frat Star" explores the alluring, superficial, manipulative, and dark world of Ivy League fraternity culture. An insecure, poor, and broken-hearted Nick enters freshman year with no interest in fraternities. This all changes when his old money roommate Billy convinces him to pledge.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-03
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Sandy Wexler
Overview: When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful
Overview: In this made for Showtime television spoof of Madonna's "Truth or Dare" documentary, comedienne Julie Brown portrays Medusa, an egocentric, hyper-sexual (and not particularly talented) pop star on an international five-day world tour, "The Blonde Leading the Blonde" show. Brown painstakingly duplicates costumes, sets and hairstyles while spoofing Madonna's seeming self-obsession. Madonna visits the cemetery where her mother is buried; Medusa visits the pet cemetery where her dog Buster is laid to rest. (Or is it "Boomer"?) Madonna performs fellatio on a bottle, at the dare of a friend; Medusa does it on a watermelon. And so on...
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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Hyperspace
Overview: Because of a small navigation mistake Lord Buckethead lands on Earth instead of "in a galaxy far, far away". But he is still looking for the princess and the secret transmissions.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Chris Elliott's FDR -- A One-Man Show
Overview: Chris Elliot plays FDR in his live "One Man Show" about the life and times of the president, however, he looks and sounds nothing like the man and he re-enacts events from Roosevelt's life that never happened.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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The Dictator
Overview: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-15
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Clara's Ghost
Overview: Set over the course of a single evening at the Reynolds’ family home in Connecticut, Clara, fed up with the constant ribbing from her self-absorbed showbiz family, finds solace in and guidance from the supernatural force she believes is haunting her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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My Man Adam
Overview: A young man meets the girl of his dreams, whereupon he finds himself involved in a murder mystery.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-25
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How to Get Girls
Overview: Zach and Ben are two nerdy childhood best friends with a dream to go to Comic Con. When Ben is forced to move with his dad to Antarctica, the two make a vow that when Ben comes back they will finish writing their own comic book and get it into the hands of their hero, Marvel creator Stan Lee. Yet, plans change when after five years of total isolation and extreme puberty, Ben returns as the same geek now trapped inside the body of an Abercrombie model. With his new "golden ticket," Zach uses Ben to do what was once thought impossible - get girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Osmosis Jones
Overview: A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.
Genres: Adventure Animation Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-10
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Scary Movie 4
Overview: Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-12
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Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Overview: Join iconic Canadian artists, activists, actors, and athletes as they share their stories of hope and inspiration in this national salute to our frontline workers and in support of Food Banks Canada’s COVID-19 relief efforts.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-26
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Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell
Overview: Interviews with the cast, creators, journalists and celebrity fans, plus behind-the-scenes footage from season six.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-07
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Carved
Overview: On Halloween 1993, two years after a deadly nuclear spill, the staff of a historic pioneer village attraction must work together to survive the attack of a monstrous killer pumpkin set on revenge.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-21
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Welcome to Redville
Overview: A young couple on the run from the law after a botched robbery takes refuge in a small desert town where strange townsfolk and the lure of one final heist threatens their relationship and their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-01
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