Demetri Goritsas

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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 .

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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

In 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

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1994 Little Women Bhaer's Student
1997 Excess Baggage Surveillance Van Cop
1998 Saving Private Ryan Parker
1998House ArrestPhilShort 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 NarratorDocumentary film
2006 The Road to Guantanamo Interrogator #7Documentary film
2007 A Mighty Heart John Skelton
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Asa Trenchard
2008 Genova DemetriTitled as A Summer in Genova in the United States
2009That Deadwood FeelingFrankDirect-to-video
2010 The Whistleblower Kyle
2011 X-Men: First Class Levene
2012Acts of GodfreyBrad Angel
2012 Good Vibrations Paul McNally
2013 Austenland Jimmy
2013 Rush American Journalist
2015 Everest Stuart Hutchinson
2016Angel of DecayRoger
2016 Snowden CIA Supervisor
2016American KillingClark
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 CarterCredited as Demtrios John Goritsas
2019 Radioactive Dr. Perkins

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995 Hawkeye GuardEpisode: "Amnesty"
1995 Highlander: The Series TimonEpisode: "Song of the Executioner"
1995 The Annette Funicello Story Jimmie Dodd Television movie
1996 Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. BaxterTelevision movie
1996 The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue Young Kansas ManTelevision movie
1997SmudgeJanTelevision movie
1998 Millennium Agent DixonEpisode: "Exegesis"
1999 Viper Alan KeefeEpisode: "Of Course, It's a Miracle"
1999 The New Addams Family SimonEpisode: "Lurch's Little Helper"
2000SearchVinceUnknown episodes
2001 Baddiel's Syndrome Ethan14 episodes
2002 Breaking News SpokesmanEpisode: "Pilot"
2005 Numb3rs FBI Tech #2Episode: "Identity Crisis"
2006CrackerHarry PetersTelevision movie
2006 The Path to 9/11 American DriverTelevision movie
2007 Spooks Frank LowellEpisode: "The Courier"
2008 Torchwood Jack's FatherEpisode: "Adam"
2009 Clouds Over the Hill StonetongUncredited
Unknown episodes
2010 The Special Relationship StrategistTelevision movie
2011Wicked Pirate CityNarratorTelevision documentary movie
2011-2012 Episodes Director9 episodes
2011Wallaby RunSeb (voice)US version
Television movie
20126 passi nei gialloSebastian BrodyEpisode: "Souvenirs"
2012 Twenty Twelve Max Madeley [7] Episode: "The Rapper" [8]
2012-2013 Nova Narrator3 episodes
Television documentary series
2012 Playhouse Presents HR Haldeman Episode: "Nixon's the One"
2013Nixon's the One HR Haldeman 6 episodes
2014A Poet in New YorkDr. Milton FeltensteinTelevision movie
2014-2015 Railroad Alaska Narrator18 episodes
2015 The Gamechangers US Radio DJ (voice)Television movie
2016 Black Mirror HansenEpisode: "Nosedive"
2017 Modus Max Cain4 episodes
2018 Ransom Stan MerkerEpisode: "Promised Land"
2020–present The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Bernie PetersonRecurring cast

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
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)
2020The SignifierCarl (voice)
2022 Dying Light 2 Stay Human Waltz (voice)
2022Triangle StrategyMaxwell Trier (voice)

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