Demetri Goritsas is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Ethan in the Sky One television series Baddiel's Syndrome and Max Cain in the psychological thriller television series Modus.
He is also best known for his film roles as Parker in the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan (1998),[1] Dr. Perkins in the 2019 film Radioactive (2019)[2] and as Stuart Hutchinson in the 2015 film Everest (2015).[3]
Career
editIn 1994, Goritsas made his film debut as a minor character in the drama film Little Women, featuring Winona Ryder, Christian Bale and Susan Sarandon. He also appeared as the character Slim Jim Man in the Slim Jim beef jerky commercials in the late 1990s.[4]
He played alongside Jeremy Irons in Gallipoli in 2005 and appeared in the Torchwood series as the father of Jack Harkness. He has also dubbed video games like DRIV3R, Killzone 2, Driver: San Francisco and 007 Legends.
Goritsas appeared as Levene in the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, featuring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon and Nicholas Hoult.[5] He appeared as Parker in the 1998 Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan, featuring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns and Matt Damon.
He appeared in films such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, A Mighty Heart, Darkest Hour, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Road to Guantanamo, The Catcher Was a Spy and Thunderbirds.
His television credits include The New Addams Family, Hawkeye, Highlander: The Series, Black Mirror and Episodes.
In 2020, he appeared as Bernie Peterson in the TNT original drama series The Alienist's second season, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness.[6]
Goritsas played actor Roy Scheider in The Shark is Broken, Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon's stage play about the making of the motion picture Jaws (1975). The Shark is Broken was staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2019, starring Ian Shaw as Robert Shaw, Liam Murray Scott as Richard Dreyfuss, and Duncan Henderson as Roy Scheider. Goritsas replaced Henderson in the role of Scheider for the played successful run at London's West End from October 2021-January 2022. "The Shark is Broken" transferred to the Royal Alexandra Theatre for a run from September–November 2022.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Little Women | Bhaer's Student | |
| 1997 | Excess Baggage | Surveillance Van Cop | |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Parker | |
| 1998 | House Arrest | Phil | Short film |
| 2001 | Spy Game | Billy Hyland | |
| 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Con Tech | |
| 2004 | Thunderbirds | News Anchor | |
| 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Radio Operator | |
| 2005 | Gallipoli | Narrator | Documentary film |
| 2006 | The Road to Guantanamo | Interrogator #7 | Documentary film |
| 2007 | A Mighty Heart | John Skelton | |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Asa Trenchard | |
| 2008 | Genova | Demetri | Titled as A Summer in Genova in the United States |
| 2009 | That Deadwood Feeling | Frank | Direct-to-video |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Kyle | |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | Levene | |
| 2012 | Acts of Godfrey | Brad Angel | |
| 2012 | Good Vibrations | Paul McNally | |
| 2013 | Austenland | Jimmy | |
| 2013 | Rush | American Journalist | |
| 2015 | Everest | Stuart Hutchinson | |
| 2016 | Angel of Decay | Roger | |
| 2016 | Snowden | CIA Supervisor | |
| 2016 | American Killing | Clark | |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | Cabinet Secretary Bridges | |
| 2017 | Papillon | Jean-Pierre Castelneau | |
| 2017 | Borg vs. McEnroe | Bjorn Borg's Agent #1 | |
| 2018 | The Catcher Was a Spy | Clifton Fadiman | |
| 2019 | Rocketman | Carter | Credited as Demtrios John Goritsas |
| 2019 | Radioactive | Dr. Perkins |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Hawkeye | Guard | Episode: "Amnesty" |
| 1995 | Highlander: The Series | Timon | Episode: "Song of the Executioner" |
| 1995 | The Annette Funicello Story | Jimmie Dodd | Television movie |
| 1996 | Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. | Baxter | Television movie |
| 1996 | The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue | Young Kansas Man | Television movie |
| 1997 | Smudge | Jan | Television movie |
| 1998 | Millennium | Agent Dixon | Episode: "Exegesis" |
| 1999 | Viper | Alan Keefe | Episode: "Of Course, It's a Miracle" |
| 1999 | The New Addams Family | Simon | Episode: "Lurch's Little Helper" |
| 2000 | Search | Vince | Unknown episodes |
| 2001 | Baddiel's Syndrome | Ethan | 14 episodes |
| 2002 | Breaking News | Spokesman | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2005 | Numb3rs | FBI Tech #2 | Episode: "Identity Crisis" |
| 2006 | Cracker | Harry Peters | Television movie |
| 2006 | The Path to 9/11 | American Driver | Television movie |
| 2007 | Spooks | Frank Lowell | Episode: "The Courier" |
| 2008 | Torchwood | Jack's Father | Episode: "Adam" |
| 2009 | Clouds Over the Hill | Stonetong | Uncredited Unknown episodes |
| 2010 | The Special Relationship | Strategist | Television movie |
| 2011 | Wicked Pirate City | Narrator | Television documentary movie |
| 2011-2012 | Episodes | Director | 9 episodes |
| 2011 | Wallaby Run | Seb (voice) | US version Television movie |
| 2012 | 6 passi nei giallo | Sebastian Brody | Episode: "Souvenirs" |
| 2012 | Twenty Twelve | Max Madeley[7] | Episode: "The Rapper"[8] |
| 2012-2013 | Nova | Narrator | 3 episodes Television documentary series |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents | HR Haldeman | Episode: "Nixon's the One" |
| 2013 | Nixon's the One | HR Haldeman | 6 episodes |
| 2014 | A Poet in New York | Dr. Milton Feltenstein | Television movie |
| 2014-2015 | Railroad Alaska | Narrator | 18 episodes |
| 2015 | The Gamechangers | US Radio DJ (voice) | Television movie |
| 2016 | Black Mirror | Hansen | Episode: "Nosedive" |
| 2017 | Modus | Max Cain | 4 episodes |
| 2018 | Ransom | Stan Merker | Episode: "Promised Land" |
| 2020–present | The Alienist: Angel of Darkness | Bernie Peterson | Recurring cast |
Video games
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Ghost Master | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2004 | Driver 3 | Bad Hand, Additional Voices (voice) | Credited as Demitri Goritsas[9] |
| 2009 | Killzone 2 | Sgt. Thomas "Sev" Sevchenko (voice) | |
| 2010 | Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2010 | Apache: Air Assault | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2011 | Driver: San Francisco | John Tanner (voice) | Credited as Demitri Goritsas[9] |
| 2012 | Inversion | Davis Russell (voice) | |
| 2012 | 007 Legends | Felix Leiter (voice) | |
| 2014 | The Crew | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| 2018 | Overkill's The Walking Dead | Survivors (voice) | |
| 2020 | The Signifier | Carl (voice) | |
| 2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human | Waltz (voice) | |
| 2022 | Triangle Strategy | Maxwell Trier (voice) |
References
edit- ^ Hathaway, Hashim (July 20, 2018). "Miller's Men: What became of the cast of 'Saving Private Ryan'". www.yardbarker.com. Yard Barker. Retrieved October 31, 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Hermanns, Grant (July 24, 2020). "Radioactive Review: A Compelling Lead Can't Save a Flawed Script". www.coming soon.net. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
- ^ Young, Sage (September 18, 2015). "Where Are The 'Everest' Survivors Today?". www.bustle.com. Bustle. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
- ^ "Eat Me Guy From Slim Jim Commercials: Memba Him?!". www.tmz.com. TMZ. May 12, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ "Demetri Goritsas Talks about His Career and Role in "X-Men:First Class"". www.hollywoodgreekreporter.com. Hollywood Greek Reporter. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ Bundel, Ani (July 19, 2020). "The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness brings another serial killer case to 1890s New York". The A.V. Club. AV Club. Archived from the original on December 30, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
- ^ Writer: John Morton; Director: John Morton; Producer: Jon Plowman (20 April 2012). "The Rapper". Twenty Twelve. BBC. BBC Two.
- ^ "Demetri Goritsas' British Comedy Guide Page". www.comedy.co.uk. British Comedy Guide. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ a b "Demetri Goritsas (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 28 September 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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